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Salary: £35,000 - £45,000 dependent on experienceWe have a fantastic opportunity for a full-time Actuarial Analyst to be part of a highly regarded Actuarial team at AXA UK. You would be responsible for providing technical support (reserving, capital modelling and performance monitoring) in respect of insurance risk for the Retail Home line of business. You’ll have the opportunity to work within a number of different business areas, including Pricing, Claims & Underwriting, Capital Modelling, Risk Management and Business Finance.This role provides great career development opportunities. Through your personal development plan, tailored to you, owned by you, driven by you, you'll have the constant support and guidance of your line manager to learn and develop. At AXA we’re adopting a hybrid way of working, empowering our people to balance their time between home and our Ipswich office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers.What you’ll be doing:<ul><li>Create, maintain, validate and reconcile exposure and claims data to be ready for analysis/modelling.</li><li>Build insight using this data to identify trends and patterns to inform actions supporting line of business strategy.</li><li>Provide actuarial analysis to support the assessment of claims reserves required for the Retail Home line of business.</li><li>Automating less judgement-sensitive monitoring and methods to focus on key value-adding investigations, new methodology and assumption calibrations.</li><li>Consider how claims, pricing, underwriting and market developments across AXA Insurance and the UK insurance sector influence performance and claims development patterns.</li><li>Use your skillset to suggest and provide analysis that supports the strategy in respect of the Retail Home business line. We are always looking for innovative ways to improve what we do.</li><li>Provide actuarial analysis to support the assessment of capital requirement in respect of claims risks to support the delivery of the internal capital model.</li><li>Take ownership and responsibility for work delivery.</li><li>Interact effectively and build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>Excellent numerical and mathematical skills. 2.1 degree or higher in a mathematics, statistics or other numerate degree such as physics.</li><li>If working towards an Actuarial qualification, someone making good progress in the Core Technical exams.</li><li>Ability to demonstrate high levels of problem-solving skills and initiative.</li><li>General insurance actuarial work experience is preferable.</li><li>Effective communication skills to help establish a network within AXA and explain actuarial concepts to non-actuaries.</li><li>A continuous appetite to learn and develop skills.</li><li>Ability to plan and prioritise own work with a high level of attention to detail.</li><li>Embracing teamwork by supporting and respecting others.</li><li>Knowledge and experience of modelling techniques and computer languages such as R, Python, SAS, SQL, Excel VBA or other analytical language/tools.</li><li>Ability to work under strict deadlines whilst maintaining reliability and accuracy.</li></ul>As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.About AXAWith a presence in over 60 countries, and 165,000 employees serving the needs of 107 million customers, AXA is big.But never too big to care for every single person who works here. So when you join us, we promise to put our collective might behind you and your career.You’ll work in an open and supportive environment where you’ll be developed, challenged and encouraged to move around to achieve even bigger and better things – nationally and internationally. You’ll learn directly from senior leaders, from the best in our business. And you’ll enjoy real responsibility, really early on.Every large company today talks about supporting diversity and inclusion. But at AXA UK, these values form an integral part of everything we do. For us, it’s about bringing together the best talent, helping people to realise their full potential by being 100% themselves at work and delivering outstanding service to everyone – regardless of difference.Proud to be part of the AXA Group, a global insurance brand and a worldwide leader in financial services, AXA Insurance businesses employ over 5,500 in a network of offices across the UK. Our expert teams care for a huge range of customers, helping them protect their cars, homes and businesses against life’s uncertainties. Whether bought directly, through brokers or through a number of corporate partners, our market-leading products are trusted by millions.What We Offer<ul><li>Competitive annual salary of £35,000 - £45,000 dependent on experience</li><li>Annual company & performance-based bonus</li><li>Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)</li><li>Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)</li><li>25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays</li><li>Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 3 days leave</li><li>AXA employee discounts</li><li>Gym benefits</li></ul>Our ambition is to become one of the most inspiring companies to work for, as such we’re committed to supporting employee needs, providing meaningful career development and celebrating differences. We understand that everyone has individual work and home life responsibilities, therefore we’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role, should this be a requirement for you.We look for candidates with the right skills and values to join us and selection is based on a fair and equal process. As a regulated financial services company, all successful candidates will be subject to pre-employment checks. We’re committed to providing equal opportunities for all, therefore we welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. As a disability confident employer, we’re pleased to offer our support and access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge should you require an alternative method of applying or any reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process.

Here at Buck, following a period of sustained growth and success, and whole host of award wins, we are looking to continue this growth with making a number of graduate hires into our actuarial consulting team to support our future growth plans. With most of our recruitment wrapped up for our other offices, this role is specific to our Ipswich location. It's an office right in the centre of town, and being home to teams of actuaries, consultants, administrators and others, it offers a fantastic, collaborative working environment for you to develop your skills in!For this role, we’re looking for self-motivated, personable, and driven individuals with a solid numerical background (a 1st or 2:1 degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Economics etc.), and in return, we’ll deliver to you an unrivalled training and exam support programme, as well as the opportunity to forge a career within a well-regarded, long-established organisation operating in the UK Pensions and Benefit consulting world, even if we do say so ourselves!To give you a flavour of a typical week within this role, here are some of the responsibilities:<ul><li>Working within a diverse team of qualified and part qualified actuaries to support our pension scheme clients</li><li>Handling the preparation of valuations</li><li>Undertaking accounting disclosures</li><li>Coordinating data collection; including editing and testing data received from clients</li><li>Preparing letters, reports, and other client materials</li><li>Assisting in developing administrative procedures and forms used by clients</li><li>Checking day to day member calculations</li><li>Participating in Buck internal projects, handling special projects or assignments as needed</li><li>Assisting scheme consultants with the consultancy aspects of pension schemes</li><li>Establishing strong working relationships with clients and colleagues, with early access to clients thought preparing for and attending client meetings</li><li>Day-to-day correspondence with clients and third parties</li><li>Building up consulting knowledge on actuarial and non-actuarial aspects of pension plans</li></ul>The longer-term objective of this role is for you to progress towards qualifying as an Actuary and obtaining a Scheme Actuary certificate and holding responsibility for managing a portfolio of clients as well as supporting individuals within the team and acting as a client manager for a number of these. We will fully support and sponsor the attainment of these actuarial qualifications – both financially and with surrounding you with colleagues that can help you develop and expand your learning.Why join Buck:<ul><li>Your Career is our motivation – working as part of a small but highly collaborative, you get the level of responsibility and client exposure rarely experienced working for some of our larger competitors. At Buck, we pride ourselves on providing excellent support at all levels to drive your ambitions and career developments goals.</li><li>Our commitment to you as a Buck employee – we offer a competitive and comprehensive benefit package and are committed to providing a highly collaborative, stimulating working environment and are committed to flexible working and diversity & inclusion.</li><li>Diversity of clients – we work with leading UK and international corporations, across a variety of sectors and industries, where no two clients are the same!</li><li>We are client focussed – unlike some of our competitors, we offer bespoke and tailored solutions to our clients, not a one size fits all solution.</li><li>Excellent client exposure from the start of your career – we believe that it is important for individuals to have direct client exposure at the start of their career. This provides you with the opportunity to develop client relationships and provides you with a greater understanding of your clients’ long term objectives.</li></ul>In return, alongside training, support and career progression, we will also offer you:<ul><li>Highly competitive salary;</li><li>Minimum 25 days Annual leave (excluding Bank holidays);</li><li>Holiday trading - (10 days – buy option) or (5 days – sell option);</li><li>Private Medical cover;</li><li>Health-checks / Screening;</li><li>Defined Contribution pension provisions;</li><li>Comprehensive Life Assurance coverage;</li><li>Vision Plan;</li><li>Company bonus scheme;</li><li>Interest-free season ticket loan;</li><li>Gym subsidy;</li></ul>Additional flexible benefits Scheme to support you and your family in and out of work encompassing; Health & Wellbeing, Protection, and Lifestyle covering; additional Life assurance, Travel insurance, Dental insurance, Medical Cash Plan, Critical Illness cover plus many more.At Buck, we pride ourselves in our Diversity and Inclusion and are an Equal Opportunity Employer.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable UK law.Unfortunately, these roles cannot be offered as fully-remote positions and we cannot provide Visa sponsorship at this time.

It’s an exciting time to join the Retail Pricing team here at AXA, with a focus on growing the Retail business a new Portfolio Pricing team has been created that will be responsible for collaborating with all business functions to ensure our enhanced pricing sophistication translates into even better outcomes for both our customers and all portfolios within the Retail business.In this role, the Portfolio Pricing Manager will lead the commercial and trading responsibilities for portfolio pricing across the Direct Portfolio, working closely with product and customer functions. Support Head of Portfolio Pricing in delivering all pricing initiatives agreed on the Direct business of AXA Retail.You'll support commercial and trading responsibilities for pricing across the Retail Portfolio, working closely with the Heads of Portfolio Pricing and Product, Finance and Customer functions. You'll be responsible for collaborating with all stakeholders on Direct lines of business and play a leading role in performance management of the Direct business whilst supporting the Intermediary business.At AXA we’re adopting a Hybrid way of working, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. This role can be conducted from our Weybridge, London or Ipswich offices and you're likely to come to the office at least twice a fortnight.What you’ll be doing:<ul><li>Collaborating effectively across AXA Retail Pricing teams to support delivery of Retail Pricing Strategy.</li><li>Collaborate effectively across peers within Pricing, Product and Customer functions to support our ONE Retail Strategy</li><li>Making use of advanced analytics to produce more efficient and robust insight that will help achieve both short- and long-term ambitions of the Retail business.</li><li>Lead deliverables of the Portfolio Pricing team for the Direct business whilst managing and developing a team of 2 – 3 pricing analysts.</li><li>Support pricing for non-modelled risks to achieve Retail P&L targets and utilise insight from pricing modelling department where appropriate.</li><li>Delivering analysis of competitor price change using third party market data supply.</li><li>Playing an active role representing team in pricing committees and take responsibility for portfolio pricing actions.</li><li>Supporting Head of Portfolio Pricing with Executive requests, briefing documents and committee preparation.</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>Experienced Manager, who is highly customer focused and can deliver results that exceed expectations</li><li>Experience of pricing software such as Emblem/RADAR</li><li>Good programming skills, for example SAS, R, Python</li><li>Good analytical, presentational and influencing skills</li><li>Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.</li><li>Able to build positive, productive relationships with a broad range of stakeholders</li><li>A very strong focus on delivery</li><li>Experienced in converting high-level ideas and concepts into practical plans which motivate and provide clear direction</li><li>Able to build positive, productive relationships with a broad range of stakeholders</li><li>Solution-focused and able to drive continuous improvement</li><li>Self-motivated & can-do attitude, who values contribution and understands need for collaboration</li><li>Demonstrable resilience and experience of successfully managing multiple priorities</li><li>Good understanding of the regulatory environment in which the business operates and understanding of the dynamics of large organisations</li><li>Outstanding communication and influencing skills</li></ul>As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.This position has been defined as an Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) role under the IDD regime which means that in addition to pre-employment screening checks, the successful candidate will be subject to background screening every 4 years with an annual declaration in interim years.About AXAWith a presence in over 60 countries, and 165,000 employees serving the needs of 107 million customers, AXA is big.But never too big to care for every single person who works here. So when you join us, we promise to put our collective might behind you and your career.You’ll work in an open and supportive environment where you’ll be developed, challenged and encouraged to move around to achieve even bigger and better things – nationally and internationally. You’ll learn directly from senior leaders, from the best in our business. And you’ll enjoy real responsibility, really early on.Every large company today talks about supporting diversity and inclusion. But at AXA UK, these values form an integral part of everything we do. For us, it’s about bringing together the best talent, helping people to realise their full potential by being 100% themselves at work and delivering outstanding service to everyone – regardless of difference.Proud to be part of the AXA Group, a global insurance brand and a worldwide leader in financial services, AXA Insurance businesses employ over 5,500 in a network of offices across the UK. Our expert teams care for a huge range of customers, helping them protect their cars, homes and businesses against life’s uncertainties. Whether bought directly, through brokers or through a number of corporate partners, our market-leading products are trusted by millions.What We OfferOne of the best things about joining AXA is our rewards package. At AXA UK, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:<ul><li>Competitive annual salary</li><li>Annual company & performance-based bonus</li><li>Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions)</li><li>Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)</li><li>25days annual leave plus Bank Holidays</li><li>Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 3 days leave</li><li>AXA employee discounts</li><li>Gym benefits</li></ul>Our ambition is to become one of the most inspiring companies to work for, as such we’re committed to supporting employee needs, providing meaningful career development and celebrating differences. We understand that everyone has individual work and home life responsibilities, therefore we’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role, should this be a requirement for you.We look for candidates with the right skills and values to join us and selection is based on a fair and equal process. As a regulated financial services company, all successful candidates will be subject to preemployment checks. We’re committed to providing equal opportunities for all, therefore we welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.As a disability confident employer, we’re pleased to offer our support and access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge should you require an alternative method of applying or any reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process.

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