This is your opportunity to join AXIS Capital – a trusted global provider of specialty lines insurance and reinsurance. We stand apart for our outstanding client service, intelligent risk taking and superior risk adjusted returns for our shareholders. We also proudly maintain an entrepreneurial, disciplined and ethical corporate culture. As a member of AXIS, you join a team that is among the best in the industry.

At AXIS, we believe that we are only as strong as our people. We strive to create an inclusive and welcoming culture where employees of all backgrounds and from all walks of life feel comfortable and empowered to be themselves. This means that we bring our whole selves to work.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, civil union status, family or parental status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Accommodation is available upon request for candidates taking part in the selection process.

Portfolio Management Actuary

Job Family Grouping: Actuarial and Technical

Job Family: Pricing

How does this role contribute to our collective success?

The Pricing function supports underwriters and management in building robust and profitable portfolios by providing objective insights through deep product expertise and by utilising state-of-the-art functional capabilities.

The Portfolio Management and Pricing Analytics team sits within the Pricing function and is responsible for enterprise-wide analytics to aid portfolio steering and oversees cross-product initiatives to ensure consistency across the group.

As a Portfolio Management Actuary, you will play a pivotal role in helping shape the organisation’s strategic direction. Your insights and recommendations will guide decisions at the highest levels, ensuring profitable growth and resilience across our global portfolio. This is a highly visible position that interacts with senior leadership and collaborates across multiple teams, making your work central to our collective success.

What will you do in this role?

Act as a strategic partner to senior leadership, coordinating the Pricing team’s involvement in annual business planning and quarterly reforecasting processes, serving as the central point of alignment among diverse internal stakeholders.
Assist enterprise-wide planning and decision making by maintaining robust exhibits and streamlined processes that enable timely, data driven reviews of the latest business plan or reforecast.
Support the organisation’s strategic direction by preparing materials for ExCo’s review of loss ratio assumptions and overall portfolio construction, including actionable recommendations to optimise the business plan.
Aid decisions at the highest level by producing portfolio review materials for the Group Board’s annual business plan sign-off and conducting quarterly portfolio analyses to guide senior management in steering the business.
Deliver high impact portfolio insights that inform senior management’s strategic decision making, ensuring alignment with long term growth objectives.
Coordinate pricing and portfolio management initiatives that span all product lines, ensuring consistency and best practices across the enterprise.
Provide pricing intelligence by analysing key metrics and delivering insights that enable leadership to navigate the market cycle and maintain portfolio profitability.

You may also be required to take on additional duties, responsibilities and activities appropriate to the nature of this role.

About You:

We encourage you to bring your own experience and expertise to the table, so while there are some qualifications and experiences, we need you to have, we are open to discussing how your individual knowledge might lend itself to fulfilling this role and help us achieve our goals.

What you need to have:

Nearly / Newly attained Associateship or Fellowship of an accredited Actuarial Society, or commensurate experience
Ability to build relationships, collaborate and establish credibility with all stakeholders
Adaptive communication style with the ability to communicate results from actuarial analyses to non-technical audiences at all levels, including senior management
Able to coordinate deliverables across multiple teams and consistently meet deadlines
Enthusiasm to proactively challenge the status quo and develop innovative ideas

What we prefer you to have:

Ability to use R or Python for data manipulation and statistical analysis
Growth mind-set with a desire to seek diverse thought, learn from others and share knowledge

Role Factors:

In this role, you will typically be required to:

Be in the office 3 days per week

What we offer:

You will be eligible for a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes medical plans for you and your family, health and wellness programs, retirement plans, tuition reimbursement, paid annual leave, and much more.

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Portfolio Management Actuary