Your Role:
This wide-ranging actuarial role will include establishing the portfolio analytics and optimization processes, review of reinsurance structures and new business opportunities with the aim of helping Apollo make objective, evidence-based portfolio decisions.
The role will collaborate closely with the other actuarial teams (capital, pricing, and reserving) as well as engagement with the underwriting teams. This role will initially have one portfolio management analyst as a direct report with expected growth of the team in the future.
What you’ll do:
- Lead on Portfolio Management activities, working collaboratively with the actuarial function, business intelligence, claims, and underwriting teams.
- Key support in business planning process, including the provision of analytics to inform and challenge business planning assumptions.
- Assist in review of new business opportunities.
- Lead assessment and implementation of Apollo’s reinsurance strategy, by considering effectiveness of existing and proposed structures.
- Support with wider actuarial workstreams including technical pricing, actuarial function report opinions, providing challenge and input into other actuarial teams.
- Drive greater understanding of the data to achieve objective, evidence-based decisions.
- Lead in actively monitoring portfolios to understand and quantify the main drivers of underwriting performance.
- Develop a broad set of portfolio optimisation metrics, to give greater insight into commercial decisions and help maximise the return on capital.
- Direct analysts to create a suite of data visualization tools and dashboards.
- Ensure all decisions are clearly documented and auditable.
- Maintain openness, integrity, and professionalism with all Apollo staff and with regulators.
What we are looking for:
- Experience in at least one of the following: capital, portfolio management, pricing, or outwards reinsurance
- Fully qualified FIA, or equivalent
- Experience in the Lloyd’s/London Market would be beneficial but not essential.
- Process efficiency & automation
- SQL experience
- Programming languages (e.g., R, Python)
- Familiarity with Tyche and/or other capital modelling platforms
- Predictive analytics (Data science)
- Good Data Governance experience
- Familiarity with one of more data visualisation tools (including Power BI, Tableau, QlikView)
- Creative with the ability to solve problems.
- Knowledge of current economic and professional technical trends and issues
- Demonstrable interpersonal skills
- Collaborative work ethic
