Experience Studies Actuary

You will join the exciting Swiss Re journey to transform its global L&H experience studies (ES) landscape by shaping, influencing, introducing and maintaining a new standardized and state-of-the-art solution that is built for the global L&H experience studies community.

About the Role

• Develop and maintain the best practice, governance framework and standard operating procedure for experience studies to achieve operational excellence, balancing regional and global requirements and needs.
• Develop and maintain training program around experience studies, which includes but not limited to ES theory, R programming and internal global ES tools.
• Deliver ES training program to the worldwide ES community.
• Foster strong collaboration and involvement across regions and central teams to ensure alignment and contribution to a common global experience studies approach.
• Take a proactive role in the L&H Experience Studies Expert Group, supporting the L&H Experience Studies Centre to shape the future of experience studies.
• Work with and provide support to other team members within ES Centre to deliver the global ES project and other team mandates.
• Act as the local team lead for wider team members within Oval and Global Experience Studies team based in Bangalore and provide day-to-day local location management support to them.

About the Team

Our team, Experience Studies Centre, which is a sub-team of the OVAL and Global Experience studies team, forms part of L&H Portfolio Steering & Monitoring (PSM) within the Chief Underwriting Office (CUO).

We aim to implement a standardized and state-of-the-art Experience Studies solutions that enables effective generation of insights of the L&H business to proactively steer L&H Re in delivering sustainable profits.

The PSM purpose is to generate insights and connect our business to proactively steer L&H in delivering sustainable profit. We therefore closely collaborate with the market units as well as other functions across the L&H community to maximize value and manage risk within our portfolio.

About You

Must have

• Qualified or near qualified actuary with 7+ years of experience in the L&H actuarial domain.
• Prior hands-on working experience with L&H experience studies and governance framework related work.
• Good knowledge in R programming.
• Great communication and influential skills.
• Ability to interact with colleagues across all levels of the organisation and work toward a common solution.
• Ability to work independently and in a team (including cross functional teams) to contribute to successful delivery of work.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability and courage to constructively challenge decisions based on emerging information, but also have the business mindset to be solutions oriented.

Nice to have

• Expertise in a variety of L&H products, ideally across multiple global markets / regions.

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.

In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.