Reserving Actuarial Analyst / Senior Analyst

General:

Job Title: Reserving Actuary

It is not a prerequisite to have general insurance industry experience. Personal lines, life, employee benefits and consulting backgrounds will all be considered.

Description: Actuarial reserving for Beazley including responding to auditor queries and calculating specific group reinsurance covers. Working within an established and experienced London Market reserving team setting provisions for our Lloyd’s, US and European entities, and engaging with a wide array of stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Respond to queries from our auditors and external actuaries
• Perform the calculation of specific group reinsurance covers
• Perform the construction of the loss development triangles for the report and accounts
• Assist in projects undertaken by the actuarial team e.g. M&A, business planning analyses and the delivery of group-wide strategic projects
• Assist in performing the quarterly reserving on a range of classes of business and undertake deep dive analysis on classes as required and maintain evidence of valuation assumptions
• Perform the necessary reconciliation checks to provide assurance on the valuation outputs
• Contribute to the reporting of results of actuarial valuations and analyses to the relevant stakeholders and committees
• Work with the reserving actuaries, claims managers and underwriters on the calculation and communication of reserve uncertainty/ranges
• Work with the Finance, Data Management and Ceded Reinsurance teams to produce and reconcile the data for the valuation processes
• Contribute to the maintenance of reserving documentation with the required frequency, adhering to the review requirements and obtaining the appropriate sign-offs
• Build and maintain constructive working arrangements with those groups identified as being key to your role including Finance, Claims, Underwriting and Data Management
• Operate as an effective team member by supporting colleagues and contributing in the delivery and achievement of overall team and business objectives
• Keep abreast of industry best practice, new initiatives and changes in regulatory requirements
• Contribute to improving the valuation processes and methodologies
• Undertake applicable professional, technical and career development training (delivered internally and externally) to include attainment of associated qualifications where required

Personal Specification

• University degree in Mathematics or related field
• Progressing towards an actuarial qualification

• General commercial and financial knowledge
• Experience with ResQ reserving software preferable
• Competent user of MS Excel; VBA, SQL, Python, R or Power BI skills desirable
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail; accurate and numerate
• Able to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
• Team worker as well as able to work on own initiative
• Ability to manage time, work on a number of tasks in parallel, meet deadlines and prioritise

• Reserving experience; Lloyd’s market knowledge desirable
• Command of basic actuarial techniques
• Understanding of reinsurance

• Outcome focused, self-motivated, flexible and enthusiastic
• Professional approach to successfully interact with team members and stakeholders

• Achievement and solution focused
• Analytical
• Information seeking
• Stakeholder focus
• Using initiative
• Having integrity
• Taking responsibility
• Being reliable
• Attention to detail