Senior Pricing Actuary

Senior Pricing Actuary

Company: Munich Re

Location: Munich, Germany

The Centre of Competence Best Estimates & Pricing is responsible to provide a sustainable framework for customer tailored profitable pricings for Life and Health reinsurance business in Europe, Israel and Latin America. This includes risk adequate assumptions, advanced pricing and monitoring standards and cutting-edge tools supporting the pricing process (pricing landscape). In addition we support market pricing units with tailor-made reinsurance pricings, product development and further reinsurance services. We excel in keeping actuarial assumptions and methods for life and health insurance up-to-date. We leverage our close cooperation with experts on markets, risk management, data and medical science as well as with our international colleagues within Munich Re’s global Life and Health units. We provide the market teams with state of the art infrastructure and standards for quantitative and qualitative assessments of R/I Pricings for new business opportunities and monitoring of our inforce portfolio. We are thus ensuring essential support for our successful business development and quality assurance of our reinsurance portfolio.

We are looking for a Senior Pricing Actuary to lead the team for the development and maintenance of our Pricing Tools.

Your Job

• Support team strategy development for your area of responsibility, Pricing Tool development and R/I Pricing methodology
• Take an active and organizing role in the delivery processes consisting of requirements discovery, solution design, user story writing, feature development, user acceptance testing, sign-off procedures and deployment
• Cooperate with subject matter experts in pricing to identify key capabilities required as well as potential risks & issues and support the implementation of measures required
• Further elaborate pricing and risk management infrastructure and establish and/or improve processes in cooperation with interfaces, i.e. IT, client pricing units and/or internal expert networks
• Structuring and modelling of reinsurance contracts and performing stochastic reinsurance pricings in order to support business decisions
• Drive or participate in agile projects and initiatives supporting our business strategy
• Consulting and training of colleagues and cedents
• Close collaboration with client pricing and business units, as well as with central units IT, Corporate Underwriting and Valuation

Your Profile

• Very good degree in mathematics, actuarial science or comparable qualification, membership in the DAV or a comparable foreign Association of Actuaries
• Profound working experience in primary insurance or reinsurance in the areas of pricing
• Comprehensive experience in development with C#, JAVA or similar and with SQL databases and/or development
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps and PowerShell
• Good knowledge of insurance modelling software AXIS, Prophet or similar
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to comprehend complex actuarial issues and explain to others
• Strong creativity and ability to develop new solutions/concepts
• High degree of entrepreneurial attitude, costumer orientation, responsibility and motivation
• Very good presentation and trainer skills
• Fluent in written and spoken English, basic command of German required; good command of Spanish is of advantage

About us

As the world's leading reinsurance company with more than 11,000 employees at over 50 locations, Munich Re introduces a paradigm shift in the way you think about insurance. By turning uncertainty into a manageable risk we enable fundamental change. Join us working on topics today that will concern society tomorrow, whether that be climate change, major construction projects, medical risk assessment or even space travel.

Together we embrace a culture where multiskilled teams dare to think big. We create the new and the different for our clients and cultivate innovation.

Sounds like you? Push boundaries with us and be part of Munich Re.

Our employees are our greatest strength. That’s why we offer them a wide range of benefits. You can find some examples below.

Unlock your potential

• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: we embrace the power of differences and are convinced that diversity fosters innovation and resilience and enables us to act braver and better.
• Continuous Learning: we believe that continuous learning is a key differentiator and critical for building new skills and accelerating growth.
• Career Mobility: we actively support career mobility, and our strong global and regional presence offers a wealth of career growth opportunities for you.

Rewards & Recognition

• Competitive salary: appropriate compensation for your high level of commitment.
• Retirement provision: state of the art in-house pension solutions.
• Work-life balance: promoting the compatibility of family and work in addition to overall work-life balance.
• Health management: focus on your physical and mental health far beyond legal requirements.
• Hybrid working: living the best of both worlds – we offer you a very flexible approach as well as the opportunity to work from abroad on an occasional basis.

* Munich Re not only stands for fairness with regard to its clients; it is also an equal opportunities employer. Severely disabled candidates will also be prioritized, if equally qualified.

Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft Lisa Schneider • HR Consultant Königinstraße 107 • 80802 München • GERMANY