Pricing Actuary – UK Commercial Property & Casualty in London

The Pricing Actuary will provide Actuarial pricing support primarily for Chaucer’s UK Commercial Property and Casualty insurance portfolio, focusing on account pricing, benchmark rate reviews, and portfolio analyses. The role will be strongly client-facing, incorporating support for broker negotiations and pricing support for insureds. It will involve developing pricing and oversight capabilities for existing and new client relationships.

This role will support the pricing team to leverage data from a range of sources to provide additional insights and enhance pricing and portfolio analytics capabilities, including implementing predictive analytics and other more sophisticated pricing techniques where feasible. The collection and maintenance of pricing data, particularly from coverholders, will incorporate cross-functional project work and will feed into wider key strategic initiatives across the Group.

The successful applicant will have strong technical pricing skills, ideally with a background in modelling for data-rich commercial or London Market classes. They will also possess strong communication skills, stakeholder management and consultancy experience, and commercial awareness to provide effective support to underwriting teams and clients for product development and ongoing portfolio management.

The Pricing Actuary will also provide pricing support for other classes as required, including other classes within the insurance, reinsurance, and Partnership/Innovation divisions. The role will be located within the Actuarial pricing team in London and work directly with the underwriting team under the guidance of the Insurance Pricing Manager and the rest of the Pricing leadership team.

Job Description

• Development of a deep understanding of the Property, Casualty and data-rich classes, trends and underwriting team strategy.
• Account pricing and underwriter support for broker negotiations.
• Support the collection, maintenance and exploration of pricing data, implementing predictive analytics and other more sophisticated data transformation and pricing techniques where feasible.
• Ongoing portfolio monitoring for accounts and overall portfolio.
• Contributing ideas for new Pricing MI Insights.
• Model recalibration reviews.
• Keep abreast of industry initiatives and develop new pricing/visualisation techniques and best practice where opportunities arise.
• Collaborate, present and share knowledge with the wider Actuarial team on pricing approaches.
• Assistance for other pricing team activities as needed.

Skills and Competencies

• General insurance pricing experience.
• Experience of predictive analytics/data science techniques relevant for general insurance.
• Experience in pricing delegated business would be desirable.
• Model development experience.
• IT skills, including comprehensive knowledge of Excel and VBA.
• R or Python (desirable).
• SQL (desirable).
• Experience in building and using dashboards in PowerBI (desirable).
• Strong attention to detail, with an organised and clear-thinking approach to work.
• Self-motivated, hard working and committed to delivering high-quality outcomes.
• Professional, reliable and able to represent the business appropriately.
• Flexible and adaptable, with the ability to respond effectively to changing priorities.
• Able to plan, organise and manage multiple tasks to meet targets and deadlines.
• Collaborative team player with strong communication skills and the ability to engage with colleagues at all levels.

Education

• 2.1 or 1st degree in Maths or a Maths-related subject (e.g. Physics, Engineering, Statistics).
• 3 or more ‘A’ levels, including Maths.
• Qualified (FIA or equivalent) or nearly qualified.

Chaucer is committed to diversity, actively values difference and respects people regardless of the protected characteristics outlined in the Equality Act 2010. A diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace are core to our success as a business and integral to our winning strategy and culture. We recruit from the widest available pool of talent, and our hiring, assessment and selection process is fair and free from bias. We are committed to promoting a culture that actively values difference and recognises that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect throughout their employment. We are open to considering flexible working arrangements for all roles and encourage you to outline your needs during the interview process.