Reserving Actuarial Analyst – Projects
Zurich Insurance
part-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Support the Head of Actuarial Projects in delivering actuarial services to the UK Chief Actuary P&C, Heads of Reserving and other business partners, providing insights into underlying performance and business implications on topics with a moderate to high level of complexity.
- Support in the delivery of new analyses and insights to develop a deep understanding of the UK P&C business model, its underwriting strategy and its interactions with customers.
- Prepare and perform reserve reviews on UK-wide analyses, working closely with UK Reserving teams and ensuring timely delivery and accuracy of bookings and results.
- Support and advise Finance, market-facing business units, and other functions on reserving and strategic projects and business decisions.
- Assist in regulatory queries, specific portfolio reserving analyses and deep dives to support senior management decision making.
- Advance the capabilities of the Reserving team by researching and implementing novel techniques across the team.
- Proactively identify and implement opportunities to design and enhance actuarial processes and tools—boosting efficiency, accuracy, and alignment with best practices.
- Drive continuous improvement in all pieces of work conducted.
Requirements
- Part-Qualified actuary and actively studying for the Actuarial exams.
- A high level of numeracy skills and an analytical approach to work is essential.
- Data management and good programming skills (e.g. SQL, R, VBA) are considered a strong advantage.
- Excellent team-working, communication and interpersonal skills are also required.
- A serious and professional attitude towards compliance of regulatory submissions with an eye for attention to detail in order to support accuracy.
- Enthusiastic and positive can-do attitude.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and driven to deliver to set deadlines.
- Adaptability and Flexibility.
- Experience in P&C reserving is preferred for this role.
Benefits
- 12% defined non-contributory pension scheme
- annual company bonus
- private medical insurance
- option to buy up to an additional 20 days or sell some of your holiday
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
numeracy skillsanalytical skillsSQLRVBAdata managementactuarial techniquesreserving analysisbusiness analysisperformance insights
Soft Skills
team-workingcommunication skillsinterpersonal skillsattention to detailprofessional attitudeadaptabilityflexibilitytime managementproblem-solvingpositive attitude
Certifications
Part-Qualified actuaryActuarial exams