Actuary

Found in: beBee S GB - 2 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Ryan Specialty Full time
Ryan Specialty is looking for an Actuary to join our London, UK team, however, this position can sit remote. We are a fast paced, energetic and rapidly growing organization that offers a great opportunity for someone interested in further developing their career. Ryan Specialty has been named one of America's Most Loved Workplaces by Newsweek, and has been named 2023 Top Insurance Employer by Insurance Business America.

Position Summary:

This role will be involved in a multitude of actuarial support for Ryan Specialty business units, central functions, and/or external partners; work may relate to pricing, underwriting support, loss projection, and/or risk analysis.

Essential Functions:

  • Lead the profitability analyses using traditional reserving methods for numerous business units, including start-to-finish scheduled analyses, reporting of results to management teams, support during strategy determination, and fulfillment of ad hoc requests & deep-dive analyses
  • Contribute to components of actuarial analytical evolution, which may include but are not limited to range analysis, large loss modeling, portfolio optimization, trend analytics, and industry benchmarking
  • Partner with actuarial pricing and UW management teams on SWOT analysis for business written
  • Create ad hoc reports, analyses, and data sets to identify and solve business problems
  • Be a champion of risk awareness and contribute to a sound risk awareness culture across Ryan Specialty
  • Help guide the actuarial Development & Operations team and the Claims Analytics Lead toward the successful implementation of a claim data process, the expansion of end-user reporting tools and self-serve dashboards, and the establishment of claim product monitoring metrics
  • Regularly communicate with and support insurance partners and their actuarial staff
  • Define compelling business arguments to elicit change in future or existing actuarial issues
  • Scheduled and ad hoc actuarial analyses of underwriting performance, profitability, and projection
  • Ownership of strategic analysis and predictive modeling aimed at process/rate/UW intelligence improvement, including identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and other strategic elements
  • Product and tool strategy & development in support of new and existing initiatives
  • Consistent and efficient communication with the underwriting teams, management teams, and central functions
  • Consistent and efficient communication with insurance partners and external actuarial teams


Education/Experience/Skills:

  • Bachelor's degree in numerical or related field, including, but limited to, actuarial, mathematics, or finance
  • 5+ years of industry experience
  • FCAS, ACAS, or near - ACAS
  • Rooted knowledge of the insurance industry, especially the specialty, commercial, and/or reinsurance sectors
  • Proficient with data manipulation, modeling, and visualization tools (e.g., SQL, Alteryx, MS Office, PowerBI)
  • Actuarial designation
  • Strong technical aptitude and attention to detail
  • Solid interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills
  • Proven experience working with Excel, relational database tools, and visualization tools
  • Demonstrated strong understanding of insurance business
  • Ability to ask questions, manage upward, and get involved at all levels of process, as necessary
  • Experience working with large data sets and instances of incomplete/inconsistent data
  • Ability to think flexibly and react nimbly during critical moments


Disclaimer

Ryan Specialty is an Equal Opportunity Employer
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