Reserving Actuary

Reserving Actuary page is loaded## Reserving Actuarylocations: UK - London ( St Botolph )time type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: 2025-958**Job Title: Reserving Actuary****Location: Aldgate, London****Position Type: Permanent, 35 hours per week****Hybrid: 3 days in the office, 2 days working from home****Job Purpose:**Reporting into the Head of International Reserving to support the UK actuarial function in all aspects of the reserving process, with a specialised focus on the high-profile Financial Lines account, and evaluation of Solvency II technical provisions across the International Group.**Key Responsibilities:*** Supporting quarterly reviews of Financial Lines reserves in respect of business written across TMHCC’s International Group platforms and perform peer reviews of other product lines (e.g. Energy, Marine, Property, Treaty, Accident & Health, Credit, Surety, Professional Indemnity and Liability lines).* Leading ad-hoc deep-dive portfolio analyses and other relevant projects (including continuing to enhance existing Financial Lines claims watchlist process) and feeding back insights to the wider business.* Liaising with other stakeholders across the company in a collaborative effort to improve processes and enhance the reputation of the actuarial team.* Delivery of Solvency II technical provisions and related regulatory/Lloyd’s returns.* Identifying and leading technical and wider process enhancements to increase the efficiency and impact of existing processes.* Supporting periodic analysis of reserve risk to quantify and communicate the range of uncertainty around the actuarial best estimate and support the parameterization of key inputs to the internal capital model.*Full details of each objective are outlined below.***Additional role expectations:*** Contribute to the growth of intellectual capital within the actuarial department through attendance and participation in professional development initiatives and events as well as sharing of specialized expertise with other members of the team.* Demonstrate accountability and forward-looking approach in execution of work, so that processes are intuitive, dynamic and scalable, with appropriate audit trails.* Providing ad hoc support to other business lines during quarterly reviews as required.**Skills and Experience Specification:****Essential:*** Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics or related field.* Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (FIA), Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS) or similar.* A minimum of 3 years post qualified core reserving experience involving practical application of actuarial methods and statistical techniques used in reserving of London Market P&C lines, including Financial Lines.* Excellent written and verbal communications skills.* Commercial awareness and knowledge of industry changes, legal updates and technical developments related to applicable areas of TM HCC’s business to proactively respond to changing business environment.* Thorough knowledge of the regulatory environment, including specific responsibilities placed on the actuarial function as part of the Solvency II framework and Lloyd’s guidance for the setting of syndicate reserves.* Strong analytical skills with aptitude for detail and ability to apply advanced problem-solving skills.* Advanced proficiency and experience using Microsoft Office Package (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word).* Programming aptitude / experience e.g. VBA, SQL, Python, R or similar.**Desirable:*** Proficiency and experience working with ResQ, Psicle and Power BI.**Key Responsibilities additional information:**Supporting quarterly reviews of Financial Lines reserves. Work covers:* Appropriate application of actuarial loss reserving techniques and expert judgement.* Liaise with claims management on the latest claims watchlist and apply expert judgment to incorporate this within reserving estimates.* Review existing techniques and tools utilised within the Financial Lines reserving process and identify opportunities for further enhancements.* Timely delivery and communication of results to management, relevant committees and heads of the Financial Lines business unit.* Involvement in drafting formal TAS compliant reports produced by the UK actuarial function.* Coordinate and review analysts’ work on other lines, providing timely performance feedback and training to ensure high professional standards are met at all times.* Liaise with other group functions (e.g. Finance, Business Intelligence and Risk) as necessary.* Co-ordinate with actuarial teams based in the United States to ensure International actuarial input is relevant and timely.* Identification and implementation of technical and other process enhancements to increase the efficiency of the reserve review process and controls around data quality.* Ongoing development and enhancement of actuarial methods and diagnostic tools applied in reserving analyses and monitoring of claims watchlist items and loss trends.* Maintenance and further development of detailed documentation of reserving assumptions and methodology as well as actuarial procedure documents.* Support with ad hoc requests from management, regulators and auditors as required, including liaising with the external actuaries to ensure timely provision of the annual Statement of Actuarial Opinion for TM HCC Syndicate 4141.Leading ad-hoc deep-dive portfolio analyses and other relevant projects including:* Lead meetings with underwriters and claims teams to inform the scope of deep-dive analyses.* Undertake and/or support analysts in performing analytics to further understanding of the portfolio and current trends.* Carry out research on market developments.* Prepare reports and memos summarising findings from the deep-dive analyses.* Develop and enhance existing dashboards to improve impact and insights provided to the broader business.* Feedback findings to key stakeholders.* Identifying which additional internal and external data sources used within the deep dive would enhance and enrich the BAU process and liaise with other specialists within the actuarial team to support the ingestion of these sources into the actuarial systems.Liaising with other stakeholders across the company. Work covers:* Forming relationships with key stakeholders across the Tokio Marine Group; including leadership within the Financial Lines underwriting and claims teams.* Contributing to the sharing of intellectual capital across the organisation on emerging practices and technological developments.* Identifying opportunities to collaborate with other functions and leading workshops to develop proposals for development.* Leading and/or supporting analysts in completing collaborative projects.Delivery of Solvency II technical provisions and related regulatory/Lloyd’s returns, including:* Update and development of key processes, model variables and assumptions used to assess Solvency II technical provisions.* Timely delivery and communication of Solvency II technical provision output to management.* Assist other business units regarding regulatory matters related to Solvency II technical provisions as required, including help with completing regulatory submissions and resolving queries from the regulator.Identifying and leading technical and wider process enhancements including:* Keep abreast of the latest market reserving practices.* Proactively identify areas for development within the reserving and technical provisions processes.* Participate in team workshops to develop proposals for development.* Undertake or manage analysts in designing and implementing process and MI improvements.Periodic analysis of reserve risk including:* Specifying and calibrating a set of statistical distributions used to model reserve risk as part of the capital setting process.*
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