Senior Corporate Pricing Analyst
Location: London - Hybrid
Position: Full time, Permanent
About The Job
If you love and understand financial risk – Assessing it. Evaluating it. Managing it. Advising on it. – You’ll fit right in.
The purpose of this role is to join our Pricing Actuaries as a Senior Corporate Pricing Analyst in meeting the analytical and pricing support required by the MS Amlin Insurance Division. This role sits in the ‘central pillar’ of Pricing, supporting the Corporate Pricing Actuary with all cross-class Pricing deliverables.
The Senior Corporate Pricing Analyst role will be part of a team of sixteen (and a wider Actuarial team of forty people), providing coverage for Insurance businesses across Casualty, Crisis Management, Marine, Natural Resources and Property & Allied Lines. The successful candidate will report to the Corporate Pricing Actuary.
What you’ll spend your time doing:
While there is rarely a ‘typical’ day as a Senior Corporate Pricing Analyst, here’s a snapshot of some key responsibilities:
* Conduct technical analysis across classes of business in key areas such as inflation, risk-adjusted rate change, premium-risk parameterisation and reserving/pricing loss ratios;
* Support the Corporate Pricing Actuary in conducting cross-class thematic reviews and the challenge of pricing KPIs, including working with various stakeholders to monitor and improve the performance of the business;
* Liaise with members of the Technical Pricing team to identify and quantify risks and trends across classes of business;
* Develop a working relationship with the other members of the Technical Pricing team and teams under the Chief Actuary;
* Assist with other BAU activities within the Technical Pricing team as required such as case pricing and the Lloyd’s Performance and Monitoring Data Return;
* Develop and maintain management information dashboards available for analysis and reporting on core pricing KPIs;
* Liaise with other functions within the company such as Exposure Management, Portfolio Management and our IT colleagues in Pricing Modelling Development when required;
* Stay up to date with industry developments and continuously advance both yours and the team’s actuarial expertise.
You’re going to enjoy this job if you also…
* Enjoy developing high talent in an Actuarial team
* Prefer to see the ‘big picture’ across different classes of business
* Have an exceptional eye for detail
* Are a strong problem solver, using statistical methods to tackle ‘real-world’ questions
* Can explain complex data in simple terms
* Enjoy working with other actuaries and technical stakeholders across the business.
What you’ll need:
For this particular role there are some important qualifications and experience we need you to have. These include:
Core skills:
* Experience in Insurance Actuarial employment, having completed a number of cycles and so have a clear understanding of what good and great practice looks like.
* Proven ability to work with complex data, statistical analysis, and actuarial modelling.
* Have a real skill and affinity for working with numbers, being in a role involving statistical analysis, or working towards an actuarial or similar qualification.
* Excellent communication skills (both oral and written) including capacity to manage dialogue with senior stakeholders in the business.
* Effective time management skills and the ability to work well under pressure.
Advantageous skills:
* Previous pricing experience in the London market.
* A talent to think laterally in order to develop solutions to support the continued improvement of services by the Technical Pricing team.
* Progressing as a member of the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries, a qualified member or similar.
* Experience of and comfortable using programming languages such as but not limited to SQL, Python, R and VBA.
* Experience interpreting CAT modelling outputs
* Ability to take ownership of a project and deliver outcomes aligned with the team plan
What you can expect from us:
* Competitive Base Salary
* Performance Related Discretionary Bonus
* Holiday: 28 days core annual leave, and you can buy up to 5 days
* Pension: A minimum 2% employee contribution plus 7% MS Amlin contribution (9%) up to a maximum of 5% employee contribution plus 13% MS Amlin contribution (18%)
* Private Medical: cover for yourself. Family members/dependants can be added.
* Flex Fund: £1,000 (pro-rated based on start date) to spend on flexible benefits.
* Life Assurance: 5 x annualised base salary
* Enhanced Parental Leave (maternity and paternity): 6 months full pay, entitled from day 1.
* Continuous Learning Approach: Including study support with professional qualifications.
* Employer Supported Volunteering: 3 days volunteering leave.
* Annual health screening
* Give as you earn
* Cycle to work
* Season ticket loan
* Green car scheme
* Retail discount platform
About MS Amlin
MS Amlin is a group of leading global (re)insurance companies, and we are part of the global top-10 non-life insurance group MS&AD. We operate through four legal entities operating in the Lloyd’s, Continental European, US and Bermudian global (re)insurance markets.
This role is in our Lloyd’s business.
Our Lloyd’s business writes a diverse (re)insurance portfolio and specialises in providing insurance coverage to commercial businesses and offering reinsurance protection to other insurance companies around the world. We operate from our offices in the heart of London’s (re)insurance district and from our market hubs in Asia and the Middle East. We work in partnership with our brokers and clients to provide proactive risk solutions and support across a broad range of trades and industries. We operate through our Lloyd’s Syndicate 2001, and we can trace our roots in the insurance market, back over 100 years.
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