Principal Pricing Analyst (Actuarial Pricing)

Hawksworth
Southampton
10 months ago
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Hawksworth UK are now recruiting for aPrincipal Pricing Analyst (Actuarial Pricing)for a very respected Large Insurance group. We can offer a competitive salary of up to £75,000 base salary, up to 15% bonus, 26 days holiday, Private medical, pension ( double your contribution to 14%).

Hybrid working: 2 days in the office per month. Location can be either London, Bournemouth, Leeds, Birmingham. Very flexible on this.


For this role we are looking for an experienced Pricing Analyst who has significant experience in the Insurance pricing arena, you will be looking to take the next step in your career to take charge of major projects and to influence strategy for pricing. Looking at current processes and identify opportunities to improve them.


Required skills & experience:


Essential

  • Actuarial qualification is desirable
  • Significant pricing or reserving experience
  • Excellent working knowledge of actuarial methods and principles, ideally in a pricing context including the use of Actuarial software.
  • Data science skills are preferable.
  • Experience of working in an insurance pricing role.
  • An understanding of modelling techniques, including GLMs and GBMs and their application to insurance pricing.
  • Knowledge of price optimisation and the general insurance regulatory environment.
  • Thorough knowledge of Willis Towers Watson’s software Radar and Emblem or similar.
  • Proficiency in Excel and MS Office or equivalent applications.



Desirable

  • Excellent data handling skills using SAS and/or SQL. Experience in a data science programming language, preferably Python.
  • Knowledge of Agile project management processes.


If you have the required Pricing, Actuarial & modelling skills and are looking to take the next step in your career, please apply now.

You can also reach out to me directly at


We look forward to hearing from you.

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