Lead Reinsurance Pricing Actuary

At Antares, our success starts with our people. We’re a collaborative and inclusive organisation where every voice is valued, and every individual can grow and thrive. We combine deep expertise with a supportive culture to deliver outstanding results for our clients and a fulfilling experience for our colleagues.

Key Accountabilities

• Take overall responsibility for the development of pricing and rating tools.
• Develop strategic relationships with key underwriting function heads to influence overall underwriting strategy.
• Ensure pricing controls and systems of governance, quality and qualification of pricing data capture are fit for purpose for all case pricing carried out by the actuarial team.
• Actuarial peer-review.
• Influence and engage with wider stakeholders outside of actuarial pricing.
• Dictate specific training and development requirements in actuarial students in pricing techniques.
• Team management: provide clear direction, goals, targets and constructive feedback for team members.
• Amalgamate personal objectives of team members with those of the company.
• Foster collaboration within and across teams.
• Drive culture through open communication and demonstrated leadership behaviour.
• Develop and implement the annual performance review process including objective development and developmental plans for team members.
• Support team in identifying and addressing performance gaps, career aspirations and strategies for retention of key talent.
• Take responsibility for own and colleagues’ health & safety at all times.
• Ensure customers are treated fairly at all times, in accordance with the conduct risk policy and other relevant policies and procedures.
• Be aware of and adhere to all obligations under GDPR, ensuring that the business complies with these requirements.
• Avoid breaches and report them to the Data Protection Officer when they occur regardless of whether electronic or on paper.
• Maintain compliance with regulatory activities and company policies and procedures.

Knowledge & Qualifications

• 2:1 in a numerate degree.
• Qualified actuary in the UK, US or Europe.
• Communication / Management skills: works well as part of a high‑performing team, providing support and coaching as well as able to work on own initiative.
• Good soft skills, seeking to continue to develop and improve capability of self and other team members.
• Manage relationships with senior management e.g., CUOs, heads of underwriting functions and heads of claims functions.
• Pro-active, takes the initiative and adopts a positive approach to challenges seeking to make improvements.
• Ability to organise the team’s workloads, manage time, meet deadlines and prioritise.
• Diligent, has drive to resolve issues.
• Ability to identify areas for improvement and develop solutions to facilitate said improvements.
• Strong written and verbal communication with range of stakeholders.
• Technical actuarial / statistical skills, general commercial and financial knowledge.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail; accurate and numerate.
• Knowledge of actuarial techniques for pricing primary and secondary, risk & aggregate excess‑of‑loss insurance.
• Knowledge of actuarial techniques for pricing proportional and excess‑of‑loss reinsurance products.
• Familiarity with simulation techniques used for pricing loss‑sensitive product features.
• Familiarity with jargon and practices in London Market and UK commercial lines insurance and reinsurance.
• Understanding of actuarial techniques used in reserving property and casualty insurance and treaty reinsurance.
• Experience in using a programming language such as VBA, R, Python or SQL (very desirable).