Position:	Senior Reserving Actuary 

Company:	Reinsurance

Location:	Switzerland

Job ID:		38311



Responsibilities:

- Support the quarter close process, with responsibility for selected lines of business.
- Manage explanation of results and preparation of reports for selected lines of business, liaising with the technical controlling team.
- Lead the reserving of a global specialty line of business, manage quarterly communication to P&C BUs Finance, Claims, Underwriting and Pricing and coordinate with local reserving managers across P&C Reserving.
- Work closely with underwriting, claims, actuarial pricing and technical accounting/controlling to answer queries or address cross functional issues.
- Support the Appointed Actuary with the review of the internally assumed business and other related matters.
- Interact with reserving teams from other Hubs of P&C BU, in particular through worldwide working groups to improve actuarial practices within the P&C Business Unit and separately to gain understanding of the internally assumed business to the company.
- Support other team members with implementation of new methodologies, automation and new IT tools related directly or indirectly to reserving tools.
- Support the P&C Business on other tasks.
- Participate in global projects - this might involve but is not limited to Global P&C reserving projects.
- Contribute to the training, knowhow transfer and development of the more junior members within the team.

Qualifications:

- University degree preferably in Actuarial Science, Mathematics/Statistics or discipline with focus on quantitative Finance. 
- Fully Qualified Actuary.
- Business proficiency in English, both written and spoken; good conversational skills in German desired.
- Around 5 to 7 years practical working experience in Reserving or Pricing in an Actuarial department of an Insurance / Reinsurance/ Consulting company.
- Strong communication skills - written and oral.
- Good social skills required, enjoys working in a team environment and sharing knowledge.
- Good analytical skills with the ability to understand numbers and analyze drivers of changes in results.
- A proactive personality with a solution-oriented approach and capable of working efficiently across cultural boundaries.
- Knowledge of reinsurance.
- Knowledge of finance and accounting, ideally familiarity with IFRS 17.
- Knowledge in data science and experience with large datasets and databases would be an advantage.
- Computer skills.
- Advanced Microsoft office skills in particular Excel and Word.
- Knowledge of programming languages such as VBA, R or Python.
- Knowledge of Tableau or other data visualization tools.
- Knowledge of the reserving tool ResQ and Business Objects would be an advantage.