Credit Reinsurance Pricing Lead

Job Summary

The position is responsible for providing expert actuarial advice to support sustainable and profitable pricing decisions across assigned products and portfolios, with a focus on QBE Re's Credit business. The role leads the development, review, and governance of pricing methodologies, models, and tools for various Credit lines, including Political Risk, Trade Credit/Whole Turnover, Surety, Mortgage and credit asset classes such as Trade Credit, Project Finance, Structured Credit, Leveraged Finance, Fund Finance, Real Estate Finance and bespoke credit portfolio structures including CLOs and SRTs.

This position ensures alignment with business strategy, risk appetite, and actuarial standards.

This position acts as a key partner to Underwriting, Claims, and Finance, translating complex actuarial analysis into clear pricing insights, and ensuring that pricing decisions are technically sound, commercially relevant, and appropriately governed.

• Location: New York, NY
• Work Arrangement: Hybrid – expected to be in the office 2-3 days per week.
• Salary range: $ - $, depending on experience.

• Analyze and price credit reinsurance treaty business or ad-hoc case pricing for bespoke credit reinsurance business and ensure conclusions and recommendations are analytically robust and clearly supported by data and models.
• Present complex analyses in a clear, structured manner to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Provide support to underwriters to negotiate terms and structures to meet business goals, including participation in broker meetings and calls.
• Maintain and continuously improve credit actuarial methodologies, models, and reporting practices reflective of current credit and geopolitical risk trends.
• Develop monitoring and ad‑hoc reporting to track pricing performance, profitability, and variance from expectations.
• Perform deep‑dive portfolio and product analyses, identifying performance drivers, trends, and emerging risks.
• Work with the Head of Credit Reinsurance to proactively identify and evaluate opportunities to improve portfolio mix, pricing actions, and underwriting strategies.
• Contribute to business planning and forecasting.
• Build and maintain strong internal and external stakeholder relationships, delivering timely, relevant, and actionable insights. Internal stakeholders include underwriting, claims, finance and senior leadership.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement within the pricing function.

• Progressive experience within actuarial or similarly quantitative careers, preferably with exposure to pricing Property and Casualty insurance and/or reinsurance.
• Solid background in reinsurance, including reserving and/or pricing with a specialization in financial risks or forecast modelling using rating scales and corporate or sovereign default probabilities.
• Experience in developing and modifying pricing models.
• Experience working independently and in teams.
• Experience presenting technical work products to technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Knowledge of programming tools such as VBA, SQL, R, Python.

• Actuarial qualification or progress toward qualification is strongly preferred (e.g., FCAS, ACAS, FIA, IFOA, or equivalent), where applicable (or equivalent relevant qualifications such as MBA and/or CFA).
• Tertiary degree in actuarial science, mathematics, or related quantitative discipline (or equivalent experience).

The salary range for this role is $ - $, depending on experience. Beyond the base salary, full‑time employees will also be eligible for QBE's annual discretionary bonus plan based on business and individual performance.

• Hybrid Working – a mix of working from home and in the office.
• 22 weeks of paid leave for family growth, with 12 weeks available to all parents on a gender‑equal basis.
• Competitive 401(k) program with company match up to 8%.
• Well‑being program including holistic wellbeing coaching, gym membership, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice.
• Tuition Reimbursement for professional certifications and continuing education.
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