Opportunity
Are you an actuary who enjoys being close to the deal and influencing commercial outcomes? This is a front‑end pricing role where you’ll work alongside Underwriting to help shape profitable reinsurance decisions across a diverse Property & Casualty portfolio. You’ll be hands‑on with complex, high‑value transactions, partnering with brokers and underwriters from initial analysis through to bind. With exposure to a wide range of products and close collaboration with global actuarial colleagues, this role offers strong development, visibility and impact.
Primary Details
Time Type: Full time
Worker Type: Employee
Location: London or Brussels (Hybrid)
Job Type: Full‑time, Permanent
About QBE
At QBE, we get to the heart of what matters for our customers. We’re an international insurer with more than 13,000 people working across 26 countries – which means we’re big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a real impact. It’s an exciting time. We’re building momentum towards our vision to become the most consistent and innovative risk partner.
Responsibilities
- Analyse and price reinsurance treaty business and ensure conclusions and recommendations are analytically robust and clearly supported by data and models.
- Present complex analyses in a clear, structured manner to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
- Provide support to underwriters to negotiate terms and structures to meet business goals, including supporting underwriters in broker meetings and calls.
- Maintain and continuously improve actuarial methodologies, models, and reporting practices to meet evolving business needs.
- Develop monitoring and ad‑hoc reporting to track pricing performance, profitability, and variance from expectations.
- Perform deep‑dive portfolio and product analyses, identifying performance drivers, trends, and emerging risks.
- Proactively identify and evaluate opportunities to improve portfolio mix, pricing actions, and underwriting strategies.
- Contribute to business planning and forecasting.
- Build and maintain strong internal and external stakeholder relationships, delivering timely, relevant, and actionable insights. Internal stakeholders include underwriting, claims, finance, and senior leadership.
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement within the actuarial function.
Qualifications
- Actuarial pricing experience within Property & Casualty insurance or reinsurance.
- Experience developing, reviewing, or enhancing actuarial models and assumptions.
- Confidence working independently on complex analysis while collaborating closely with Underwriting.
- Ability to communicate pricing insights clearly to non‑technical audiences.
- Experience using analytical or programming tools such as VBA, SQL, R or similar.
- Actuarial qualification or progress toward qualification (e.g., FCAS, ACAS, FIA, IFOA, or equivalent).
Benefits
- 30 days holiday a year with the option to buy up to 2 additional days.
- Pension – automatically enrolled into the QBE pension plan, receiving employer contributions of 10% of basic salary.
- Private medical insurance – we fund fully comprehensive private medical cover for you and all family.
- Short‑term remote work abroad – request up to 20 days per year to work remotely from certain locations abroad.
Equal Employment Opportunity
QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.
