Lead pricing for treaty reinsurance across property, casualty, and specialty programs. Collaborate with brokers, underwriters, and clients to price portfolios, maintain models, build Power BI dashboards, and communicate analyses. Work independently to develop and update pricing tools and solutions for MGAs, carriers, and reinsurers.
Howden Re is the global reinsurance broker and risk, capital & strategic advisor focused on relentless innovation & superior analytics for top client service.
About Role
Director, Programs Pricing Actuary
Howden Re Global Programs is looking for a Property & Casualty Reinsurance pricing actuary. This role will focus on treaty pricing with program businesses that span property, casualty, and specialties lines of businesses. To be successful in this role, the actuary will need to leverage their technical and business acumen while collaborating with brokers and clients. The ideal actuary will have deep technical knowledge, entrepreneurial, creative problem solver, high energy, and a growth mindset.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with our brokers to fully understand any deal to be able to provide the best solutions for our MGA, carrier and reinsurance clients
- Accurately price portfolios with little supervision across various Casualty, Professional, Property, and Specialties lines of business.
- Effectively communicate pricing and portfolio analyses to various stakeholders including but not limited to brokers, external clients, underwriters, actuaries, claims, reinsurers, etc.
- Design and create Power BI dashboards to streamline renewal submissions
- Develop, maintain, and update pricing models for Global Programs pricing needs
- Ability to work independently with little supervision
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required
- FCAS preferred, ACAS required
- Minimum of 8 years of experience
- At least 5 years of experience with MGAs and/or insurance/reinsurance pricing
- Strong analytical skills with solid understanding of all standard actuarial pricing techniques
- Knowledge of databases, methodologies, systems, and platforms
- Strong communication skills
- Good business sense
- Broad and deep experience with different segments of the P&C market, expertise in WC and financial lines will be preferred but not necessary
- Knowledge of coding is good to have but not required
Compensation will be commensurate with experience and knowledge. Target base compensation 175 – 250k. Target bonus 25% in addition to base compensation.
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