Head of General Insurance Actuarial Strategy

• Directs a team of actuarial professionals.

• Crafts the operating model and works closely with participants.

• Supports business planning and decisions by providing insight, control, and thought leadership.

• Responsible for delivering elements related to reserves, capital, and liquidity, including maintaining and improving processes and models.

• Provides pricing and underwriting support.

• Proactively considers forward-looking capital and optimisation projects for the General Insurance business.

• Leads processes to deliver regular and ad hoc insightful information to influence business decisions.

• Contributes to the strategic direction of the General Insurance business, applying insight to support participation, product, rate setting, and risk assessment options.

• Maintains a high performing team to ensure colleagues are led, mentored and developed.

• Interprets and translates policy into processes for functional areas and business divisions.

Requirements

• Qualified actuary with extensive experience of GI pricing, capital (quantification, reporting, management and monitoring), reserving (including claims processes and reserve monitoring/setting), Liquidity management and ALM
• Business Planning experience, especially stress and sensitivity
• Entity / Reinsurance structure knowledge
• Sound knowledge of market consistent techniques, policies/risk appetite, SII Internal Model and its calibrations, SII legislative requirements, the wider regulatory context and practical implications
• Track record of:
  Being able to explain sophisticated technical matters to broader senior audiences
• Ability to have difficult conversations at any level in the Organisation, provide constructive challenges and effective oversight of significant/sophisticated businesses
• Delivering sophisticated projects across different functions; taking practical decisions to deliver what’s required on time and within budget.
• Leading others through change.

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Hard Skills

• GI pricing
• capital management
• reserving
• liquidity management
• ALM
• business planning
• market consistent techniques
• SII Internal Model
• SII legislative requirements
• risk assessment

Soft Skills

• leadership
• mentoring
• communication
• strategic thinking
• problem-solving
• influencing
• constructive challenge
• oversight
• change management
• collaboration

Certifications & Qualifications

• qualified actuary