Lead Pricing Actuary French Market

The Lead Actuary supervises and leads pricing and experience analysis activities with high autonomy. The scope includes short-term and long-term business mainly for the French market. The role requires a deep understanding and application of actuarial principles in specialized areas of expertise.

The Lead Actuary is in charge of all activities as defined in the SGL Pricing Process (cf. ICS) which covers all subprocesses of a deal quotation from data collection inc. experience analysis, assumptions setting, model development and analysis, final quote setting to CART reporting.

At Local layer the pricing activity is customer-focused, developing and delivering work to enhance SCOR’s ability to write profitable new business, and does usually include (a) client services like product development and experience analysis, and (b) often is extended by corporate actuarial, finance/reporting and business development tasks.

Duties to fulfil this role include the following:

Market pricing:

• Supervise and lead pricing activities by providing reliable and consistent quotes, including risk assessment and process compliance

• Be expert on Short Term Business

• Lead and develop expertise areas within the actuarial team, ensuring best practices and continuous improvement

• Lead cashflows production for the Financial Solutions team’s needs.

• Design and implement local pricing models

• Advise business functions in product development (pricing, risk, and profitability)

• Provide support to business activities (client visits, presentations, solutions, technical seminar, training, ...)

• Lead innovative/strategic projects within the macromarket and/or global pricing communities

Experience Analysis:

• Use SCOR’s tools (APEX, Extrapex) and R/Python code developed by SCOR

• Do some EA studies for death, disability risk

• Apply the SCOR methodology to do some Long Term Care studies

• Analyzing the clients’ experience within the quotation processes under other actuaries supervision

• Help to improve the actuarial assumptions for pricing purposes

• Support projects for the development of data pools and client services based on experience analysis

Required experience & competencies

Experience:

• Min 5 years work experience in insurance/reinsurance with a focus on actuarial issues
• Experience with statistical and/or actuarial methods and tools : mostly Excel, VBA, Python and R.
• Experience in Financial Solutions would be a plus.

Personal Competencies:

• Work Standards: Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.
• Communication: Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
• Technical / Professional Knowledge: Having achieved a satisfactory level of technical and professional skill or knowledge in position-related areas; keeping up with current developments and trends in areas of expertise through the continuous learning
• Able to work in a large team and support high peak periods, developing and using collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.
• Adaptability: Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment; adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures.
• Stress Tolerance: Maintaining stable performance under pressure or opposition (such as time pressure or job ambiguity); handling stress in a manner that is acceptable to others and to the organization with strong sense of priorities.

Required Education

Actuarial Science school