Specialty Reserving Lead

Join us as a Reserving Lead in our Global Specialty Actuarial team to take your career to the next level with an international market leader.

This is a fantastic role for a qualified or nearly qualified actuary who wants to progress their career. You will be on the front line and will get exposure to a broad range of senior stakeholders across the business, including the Chief Actuaries and Underwriters. You will have the opportunity to get involved in some interesting global transformation projects.

The insights you derive from reserving will drive underwriting strategy and you will have the opportunity to make a real impact on the business.

Make your mark in Actuarial

Our Actuaries are on the front lines, quantifying risk, pricing insurance and reserving losses for AIG’s major insurance operating companies, globally. We collaborate with Finance, Claims, Operations, Marketing and Risk Management, among other functions.

As an AIG actuary, you will be challenged and encouraged to reach your greatest potential to help improve how we predict, manage and mitigate risk.

How you will create an impact

As a Reserving Lead, you will support key reserving activities for a product tower across AIG UK and Europe business, supporting underwriting in profitability monitoring and assisting in capital modelling projects from a reserving perspective.

More specifically, this involves:

• Lead the day-to-day work of the team and work together to ensure timely and accurate delivery of the UK/Europe Specialty reserve results and local reporting requirements.
• Collaborate with UK/Europe and Global reserving management to develop consistent and efficient processes globally.
• Take a leading role in the liaison with the claims team around impact of initiatives, and specific IBNR areas (e.g. CAT, specific losses, financial crisis etc.).
• Liaise with the underwriting teams around the impact of any profitability initiatives, portfolio changes and other relevant actions.
• Assist in the production of key reserving results and analytics to present to key stakeholders (internal and external to actuarial).
• Work with reinsurance to ensure ongoing understanding of outwards RI changes impacting their product tower.
• Day to day management of a small team, including training of junior staff.
• Input into the budget loss ratio setting process for their product tower, on both a legal entity and management view basis.
• Involvement in the capital model calibration process and support in other key SII activities.
• Support the Profit Study analysis and review of Portfolio MI to drive enhanced insights to Underwriters in the management of their portfolios.

What we’re looking for

• Degree in Mathematics or related discipline
• Qualified or nearly qualified Actuary
• Significant Reserving experience within commercial lines
• Proficiency in reserving software – e.g. ResQ
• Knowledge of R and SQL advantageous
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Enjoy benefits that take care of what matters

At AIG, our people are our greatest asset. We know how important it is to protect and invest in what’s most important to you. That is why we created our Total Rewards Program, a comprehensive benefits package that extends beyond time spent at work to offer benefits focused on your health, wellbeing and financial security—as well as your professional development.

Reimagining insurance to make a bigger difference to the world

American International Group, Inc. (AIG) is a global leader in commercial and personal insurance solutions; we are one of the world’s most far-reaching property casualty networks. It is an exciting time to join us — across our operations, we are thinking in new and innovative ways to deliver ever-better solutions to our customers.

AIG invests in our largest asset, our people, through continuous learning and development, in a culture that celebrates everyone for who they are and what they want to become.

Welcome to a culture of belonging

We’re committed to creating a culture that truly respects and celebrates each other’s talents, backgrounds, cultures, opinions and goals. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging through our flexible work arrangements, diversity and inclusion learning, cultural awareness activities and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

AIG provides equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, age, gender, gender expression, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected categories.

AIG is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants and employees with disabilities.