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Analytics Actuary

Inseriert am: 28.01.2020

     EMEA     


Zurich Switzerland (CH) 


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Analytics Actuary 


Permanent 


Actuarial 


 


Key duties and responsibilities


 


Lead Pricing Analytics and Reporting team’s projects in the context of IFRS17 requirements



  • Maintain and further expand Pricing & Modelling - deliverables to the groupwide IFRS17-project

  • Produce analytics and reports to ensure compliance with requirements

  • Prepare various impact studies and review the current risk adjustment and expense calibration

  • Support the pricing and underwriting community in understanding and interpreting the IFRS17 results in comparison other internal KPIs


 


Support Pricing Analytics and Reporting team in the co-ordination of global projects



  • Produce analytics and reports for different stakeholders post renewal and during renewal

  • Manage global projects or pro-actively support them

  • Coordinate with other stakeholders the design of the shared data, for instance with Underwriting, Planning, Finance, Reserving, Risk Management, and other functions

  • Develop an understanding of common fields and bases for comparisons between Pricing, Underwriting and Finance


 


Review global pricing parameters, capital and internal expense allocation for the pricing tool, xAct



  • Provide analytical support to maintain global pricing parameters and prepare impact studies ahead of the renewals

  • Support the review of the internal capital allocation and internal expense allocation parameters and continuously improve the methods

  • Participate in communication and knowledge sharing of the methods


 


Develop governance, internal model(s), Solvency II - framework



  • Develop models and maintain the pricing studies and documentation for Solvency II

  • Support and develop the annual portfolio analysis exercise. 

  • Be the link between the pricing function and experts/responsibles from the Group and other functions in the division with regards to regulatory matters

  • Validate and provide backtesting results to the Underwriting Risk in the Internal Model


 


Assist and expand SGPC’s treaty analytical toolkit (PANEL; reFresh, PEAK) including



  • Develop the code, support actuarial testing and maintenance of the tools.

  • Collaborate with the pricing community worldwide to develop and implement new ideas and contribute to the documentation inventory of the tools

  • Expand pricing skills to be able to support training and education on the use of tools and its output

  • Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure direct user feedback and findings from various sources are used to further enhance the systems.


 






Participate in other ad-hoc project work



  • Support local pricing resources during busy renewal period

  • Support various global pricing projects and communicate efficiently with local pricing teams

  • Participate in cross reviews

 

 

Required experience & competencies

 

Experience



  • P&C actuarial background – minimum of 3 years - preferably with Pricing and/or Reinsurance

  • Stays up-to-date with new/emerging knowledge in actuarial pricing as well as in respect of major market and underwriting related issues.

  • Contributes to create viable and innovative solutions that outperform competitors and differentiates SCOR.

  • Shares know-how and technical knowledge with team members (locally and globally).

  • Ensures co-operative spirit and energizes others by showing pride to be part of the team.

 

Personal Competencies



  • Excellent  technical  capabilities in actuarial pricing, and practical experience in the reinsurance industry

  • Capable to deliver on projects independently with little support from manager

  • Provides high quality work to the team and develops a good understanding of the global markets and the various lines of business and products

  • Strong collaborative spirit with experience in project leadership as well as strong social and communication skills

 

Digital Competencies



  • Excellent mathematical modelling and statistical programming skills,

  • Sound working knowledge with SQL, R or Python

 

Required Education



  • Master degree in Mathematics, Actuarial Science, other scientific discipline (statistics, physics, etc.), or Finance


 


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