Pricing Actuary

About The Role

As Pricing Actuary, your responsibilities will include assessing portfolio performance, identifying key drivers, and providing independent actuarial pricing opinions to enhance portfolio performance.

You will help to identify drivers to portfolio performance and develop strategies to mitigate gaps between what has been costed against actual performance.

You will work with senior team members and stakeholders in Underwriting, Reserving, Claims, and Finance to help build a 360° view on the portfolio with an independent Actuarial Pricing opinion on the portfolio's expected performance.

You must be willing to learn and use actuarial methods and data science techniques to help develop insights on trends to set costing parameters, improving the predictability and accuracy of costing the model.

You will have a direct impact in helping steer the profitability of your portfolio and ultimately the overall Business Unit's performance.

About The Team

The Actuarial Portfolio Management (APM) team is part of the Global Actuarial Portfolio Management unit, reporting to the Chief Underwriting Officer.

We are a mix of expert members already entrenched in their dedicated product specialization and highly motivated newer members who thrive in a dynamic and fast learning environment.

We foster an inclusive culture that values diverse perspectives and innovative thinking, ensuring equal opportunities for professional development.

Main Responsibilities

Profitability Studies

• Work with senior team members to help build a clear and independent view on current pricing or loss adequacy driven by data analysis.
• Translate details into impactful Executive reports along with effective visualizations and recommendations.

Costing Accuracy and Data Analytics

• Help and work with senior team members to translate profitability findings into corrective actions on costing models and parameters, involving:
  • Developing and maintaining costing parameters and tools.
  • Modeling and pricing deal transactions.
• Willing to learn and use actuarial and data science techniques to develop insights and trends that can be used for risk selection or differentiation; and costing improvements.

Portfolio Insights and Strategy

• Develop forward-looking portfolio insights and data-driven initiatives to shape the direction of Property & Specialty lines of business.
• Involve in various Actuarial investigations including exposure analysis, rate monitoring, and profitability analyses to drive portfolio steering.

About You

Professional Experience

• A minimum of 4 years of experience in P&C commercial insurance. Knowledge of Property and Specialty insurance products would be an additional advantage.
• You have experience in insurance pricing, portfolio profitability analysis, and costing model and tool development.
• You are reasonably familiar with costing techniques and compare costing vs reserving views and techniques.

Technical Skills

• You have highly developed numerical and analytical skills. You can translate your quantitative work into effective visualizations for high impact communication.
• You have applied these skills using real business data to develop insights and practical solutions.
• You have a good understanding of actuarial methods, models, and related business processes.
• You have statistical programming skills (e.g. R, Python). Know-how of data science techniques would be an advantage.
• You can build assumptions, methods, and conclusions with a focus on evaluating accuracy and uncertainty in models.

Personal Skills

• You are keen to learn and apply advanced actuarial methods and data science techniques.
• You are motivated to focus on delivering high-quality results on time.
• You are independent and accountable, with the skill to prioritize to complete plans to achieve high-quality results on time.
• You work for the collective success of the team, take initiative, are open and diligent, and demonstrate collaboration and intercultural competence.
• You can articulate your work and channel your communications accordingly to various situations and be comfortable in communicating and defending your work.

Educational Level

• Master's degree in mathematics, statistics, economics, or equivalent quantitative/statistical fields.

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance, and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient.

We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking.

We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought, or other characteristics.