Reserving Actuary in London

Reserving Actuary in London

London Full-Time No working from home possible
SCOR
Description

The jobholder will be an ambitious actuary who wants to work as part of a Reserving team, providing a wide range of actuarial reserving services for non-Lloyd’s entities. A key part of the role will be working on quarterly reserving, assisting on a wide variety of Reserving Projects.


Responsibilities

Some of the key areas of responsibility are as follows:

  • Lead the analysis of the technical reserves on a quarterly basis for multiple lines of business

  • Lead reserving projects, such as automation of current processes and modelling of specific lines of business

  • Lead reporting for SCOR UK and SCOR Europe boards and other governance bodies as required

  • Lead improvements of certain models, visualisation tools and dashboards

  • Annual review of the UK portfolio and contribute to the actuarial report for the various UK and European legal entities

  • Carry out regular or ad hoc studies for specific segments

  • Work closely with claims team, finance team, underwriters and underwriting management and other members of the actuarial team to develop, review and maintain appropriate tools and methodologies

  • Communicate with external Actuaries, Auditors and external regulators when required. Be able to respond to auditor queries and undertake audit defence to UK audit standards

  • Help enhance management information and reporting for the PRA and ACPR

  • Communicate key movement/trends/events to the business on a quarterly basis

  • Mentor, grow and develop junior members of the team


Qualifications
  • Post qualified i.e. Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries FIA (or equivalent being FCAS, FIAA) with at least 7 years’ experience within a Lloyd’s/London Market reserving role

  • Established, strong knowledge of GAAP, Solvency II and Solvency UK.

  • IFRS17 knowledge

  • Knowledge of regulatory requirements and an understanding of how they impact on the business

  • Strong knowledge and delivery professional standard requirements

  • Strong understanding of P&C (re)insurance and reserving practices and products

  • Significant experience in understanding, explaining and analysing financial impacts and drivers of change

  • Experience managing projects and effectively representing your department

  • Demonstrated ability to identify and implement departmental processes and controls and ensure that these are appropriately documents

  • Proficient in actuarial software, database and reporting tools including ResQ

  • Demonstrated ability to understand complex actuarial models

  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, Powerpoint)

  • Desired ability to code in VBA, SQL, Python and use Gen AI


SCOR

Contact Details:

SCOR Recruitment Team