Actuarial Analyst

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

The opportunity

• Fantastic career opportunity for an Actuarial Analyst, looking to take the next step in their career

• Location: Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane

• Permanent, Full-Time role

Your new role

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Pricing Team as an Actuarial Analyst. We are looking for an experienced and talented individual to join our Pricing team, as we expand our actuarial and pricing function.

Reporting to the Pricing Manager, you will perform actuarial calculations to assist the relevant business units in obtaining and managing a profitable business by supporting the work of the Senior Management.

In this position, you will be responsible for:

• Knowing and applying actuarial and statistical pricing techniques
• Carrying out data analysis and responsibility for specific outputs
• Demonstrating ability to apply reasonableness checks and sound judgment to pricing outputs
• Assessing impact of pricing on key profit drivers and performance metrics
• Drafting pricing recommendations to be peer reviewed by more senior actuaries
• End to end responsibility for rating deployment, working alongside Pricing Implementation Team
• Taking initiative to recommend changes to existing pricing processes
• Be part of QBE’s Modernisation journey

About you

• Your sound knowledge and experience from a General Insurance pricing background or an Actuarial Related Tertiary qualification
• Experience with SAS and Python preferred but not required
• Ability to apply a range of statistical and actuarial techniques to solve technical pricing problems
• Ability to extract, analyse and interpret data from several sources and resolve complex issues
• Strong communication skills, including explaining complicated concepts in a simple way

About QBE

We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We’re proud to work together and encourage each other to enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities.

With more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment – what if it was yours too? Your career at QBE — let’s make it happen!

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

• ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
• Our ‘Thriving at our Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
• The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
• Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
• Additional leave and support through QBE’s Family Domestic Violence First Responder Network
• Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

Rewards & Recognition

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

• 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
• 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
• Platinum employer on the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
• Ranked 3rd place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2023 for medium sized program as voted by graduates
• Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)
• Family First accredited employer since 2021

Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.