Join Our Team
As our Head of Portfolio Steering, you will work in close collaboration with the CUO office driving and building out the portfolio steering capabilities at SiriusPoint, ensuring the company exercises appropriate “Grip and Control” over its portfolios. This role will suit someone who can bring the discussion to a strategic level but also relishes hands-on delivery. This is a greenfield opportunity for the right candidate to build out the portfolio steering capabilities as a key component of SiriusPoint’s journey to being a best-in-class insurer and reinsurer. You will report to the Chief Pricing Actuary.
Your responsibilities will include:
- In close collaboration with the Chief Pricing Actuary, design the Pricing Review Group framework: setting up a regular process to bring together all key stakeholders to analyse the portfolio performance based on a consistent set of metrics.
- Drive the quarterly portfolio steering process, coordinating the delivery of the required packs and analysis, identifying & understanding the drivers of results and proposing focus areas for each review to drive actions.
- Work with the pricing teams to cascade actions from the performance review process down to individual accounts.
- Coordinate pricing input into the Quarterly Business Review process enabling a underwriting year performance view and bridging to the financial view.
- Collaborate with the wider CUO office in building out a systematic approach to line of business deep dives building a planned schedule and a consistent format.
- Support the pricing teams in providing consistent approach and inputs to the Group Planning process. As required, support the Head of International Pricing & Planning with the Lloyd’s planning process.
- Support the pricing teams in building out a consistent performance management process for delegated business.
- Collaborate with the Head of Pricing Data & Analytics to build out components of the pricing data & analytics strategy to support portfolio steering.
- Work with the wider CUO office to build out our pricing capabilities
- (Optional depending on experience) support pricing teams with account pricing during peak renewal periods.
- Provide thought leadership within the CUO department around emerging priorities in portfolio steering such as cycle management.
- Support the Chief Pricing Actuary in providing portfolio insight to the board including production of exhibits and commentary for Committee and Board papers and producing supporting underwriting and performance analysis.
Your skills and abilities should include:
- Knowledge of the global corporate and specialty (re)insurance sector essential. Understanding of reinsurance and delegated business particularly desirable.
- Prior experience working in portfolio steering, performance management or FP&A roles. Either previous pricing actuarial experience or previous experience working closely with pricing actuaries and underwriters.
- Demonstrated experience of distilling qualitative and quantitative information into clearly presented packs with actionable insights and clear recommendations.
- Prior insurance consulting experience or equivalent an advantage.
- Proven track record of working closely with pricing & underwriting teams to provide clear and easily digestible visualisation and actionable recommendations.
- Advanced PowerPoint and MI presentation skills.
- Experience delivering insight from small, messy and/or non-standard data sets.
- Strong excel skillset. Knowledge of modern visualization tools such as PowerBI an advantage.
- Excellent communication skills, with aptitude in explaining technical concepts to senior audiences.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills – ability to operate in an international environment essential.
We aim to retain and attract great people, knowing they can achieve a rewarding and enriching career. We offer a competitive and above market compensation package. The following are some of the benefits and perks we offer our employees:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- FSA Medical and Dependent care
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- EAP
- Basic Life and AD&D (company paid)
- Basic Long-Term Disability (employer) paid-Taxable income
- Employee paid Long Term Disability(voluntary)
- Company Medical Leave, Parental leave- 8 weeks full pay after 6 months of service
- Voluntary benefits: short term disability, Critical illness, Hospital Indemnity, Accident
- Travel assistance programs Company paid
- 401(k) 6 % safe harbor match, fully vested after two years, pre- and post-tax contributions allowed
- Gym reimbursement
- Legal plan
- Pet Insurance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Generous PTO
- Flexible work arrangement
- Fully stacked pantry on-site
- Team outings
- ERG Groups
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