The Actuarial Pricing department is responsible for developing consistent and market-leading pricing practices within the AXIS Insurance segment and is accountable for Technical Price Modelling, Product Monitoring, Profitability Studies, New Business Due Diligence, Business Planning, and Price Monitoring to support the underwriting teams.
As a member of the actuarial team supporting the North American Professional Lines business units (subject premium $500m+), this individual will directly contribute toward advancing the pricing and analytical capabilities of the Professional Lines practice. He/she will engage proactively with the underwriting and actuarial management teams to design and maintain models that improve risk selection, pricing sophistication, and portfolio mix.
This individual will be a contributor to the wider Global Professional Lines pricing practice and will be embedded with supporting the underwriting functions for the business units. He/she will proactively engage with Reserving, Risk Management, Finance, Claims, and Data & Analytics colleagues to achieve desired business outcomes and implement business strategies.
- Support the North American Professional Lines Business Units through profitability studies, price monitoring, planning, individual account pricing and new opportunity analyses with an immediate leadership for the Canadian Business Units.
- Support the development, validation, and maintenance of a suite of technical pricing models across the various professional and liability lines products which enable:
- Technical pricing of individual risks
- Direct capture of rate and exposure changes from prior terms
- Production of pricing loss ratios by class
- Assessment of individual risk rate adequacy
- Recommend and introduce more technical and detailed price monitoring analyses and work with operations to improve the reporting capability.
- Synthesise information across subject areas and present conclusions to individual line underwriting leaders as well as divisional management
- Contribute to the selection of expected loss ratios for financial planning in consideration of business strategies, market conditions, mix of business, loss trend, loss costs and reinsurance structures.
- Collaborate with Data and Analytics colleagues to maintain and improve current predictive models.
- Develop, support, and maintain key risk assumptions by class, and integrate advanced risk-based metrics into individual risk pricing and portfolio measurement
- Recommend and assist with the implementation of more comprehensive data capture
- At least 3-6 years insurance industry experience.
- Progressing towards Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society, or other relevant actuarial organization.
- Knowledge of analytical tools such as SQL to maintain databases and data queries. Familiarity with R or Python a plus.
- Strong ability to develop, recommend and implement new approaches.
- Self-starter, proactive with proven thought leadership.
- Excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills, and ability to establish credibility with senior underwriters and business unit leaders.
- Familiarity with Professional & Management Liability insurance products a plus.