Senior Reserving Analyst in London

Overview

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Role Details

Who are we? Look at the latest headlines and you will see something Ki insures. Think space shuttles, world tours, wind farms, and even footballers' legs. Ki's mission is simple: Digitally disrupt and revolutionise a 335-year-old market. Working with Google and UCL, Ki has created a platform that uses algorithms, machine learning and large language models to give insurance brokers quotes in seconds, rather than days. Ki is proudly the biggest global algorithmic insurance carrier. It is the fastest growing syndicate in the Lloyd's of London market, and the first ever to make $100m in profit in 3 years. Ki's teams have varied backgrounds and work together in an agile, cross-functional way to build the very best experience for its customers. Ki has big ambitions but needs more excellent minds to challenge the status-quo and help it reach new horizons.

What you will be doing

As Senior Reserving Analyst, you will support the Head of Reserving and Reserving Manager in the delivery of all aspects of quarterly reserving including the quarterly reserving process, internal and experimental reporting and providing relevant inputs from reserving into the IFRS17, Solvency II Technical Provisions and capital parameterisation. Our goal is to create a 'best-in-class' reserving process utilising innovative techniques, data science and feedback from the wider business to continuously improve this process.

Within this role you will support all quarterly reserving activities, holding responsibility for ensuring appropriate methods, assumptions and judgments with clear justifications and audit trails. You will provide additional actuarial insight to the business in the form of targeted deep-dive reviews, internal model parameterisation and investigating and applying emerging trends into actuarial work. You will also input into the design and evolution of the future state of end-to-end reserving to improve the efficiency and accuracy of all outputs and communications. This is a unique opportunity to join a new team, and to input into the reserve transformation process at its inception. We are looking for a creative thinker, who is eager to use innovative techniques and data science to enhance Ki's commercial insight and approach to reserving. We are seeking a qualified actuary, with expert reserving knowledge and a sound commercial general insurance Lloyds/company market background.

What you will bring to the role

• We are looking for a creative thinker, who's eager to lead and develop a growing reserving team.
• You'll be a part-qualified actuary (FIA, FFA or equivalent).
• You'll have expert reserving knowledge and sound commercial general insurance Lloyd's/company market experience.
• You'll have excellent IT skills, in particular an advanced level of MS Excel and VBA, experience with SQL, Python or R, with a desire to continue developing.
• Previous experience in managing qualified and student actuaries would be highly beneficial.
• Be able to prioritise workloads and collaborate effectively within your team and the wider business.

What to expect during the recruitment process

• Initial recruiter screening call
• Interview with hiring manager
• Technical Interview (this may vary depending on the role)
• Values Interview

Ki Values

• Know Your Customer: Put yourself in their shoes. Understand and balance the different needs of our customers, acting with integrity and empathy to create something excellent.
• Grow Together: Empower each other to succeed. Recognise the work of our teams, while celebrating individual success. Embrace diverse perspectives so we can develop and grow together.
• Be Courageous: Think big, push boundaries. Don't be afraid to fail because that's how we learn. Test, adapt, improve - always strive to be better.

Our culture

At Ki, we are committed to creating an inclusive environment where every colleague is valued and respected for who they are and can do the best work of their careers. Inclusion is a critical foundation of our business and people strategies and supports our vision of becoming a market-leading, digital and data-led specialty insurance business. An inclusive workplace fuels innovation because creativity thrives when everyone feels valued, respected, and supported to drive it. So, no matter who you are, where you're from, how you think, or who you love, we believe you should be you.

What we offer

You'll get a highly competitive remuneration and benefits package. This is kept under constant review to make sure it stays relevant. We understand the power of saying thank you and take time to acknowledge and reward extraordinary effort by teams or individuals.

If this sounds like a role and a culture that appeals to you, apply now!