Specialist Actuary, AFR

AXA•Hartford, CT

42d

About The Position

At AXA XL, our Reserving Actuaries have the unique opportunity to interface globally with varied business teams including underwriting, pricing, claims, operations, reinsurance, and information technology. Using your focused technical knowledge, in direct coordination with our teams of experienced actuaries and underwriters, you will develop a robust understanding of the diverse markets served by the North America Insurance Business Group at AXA XL. By digging deep into the business and providing forward-looking insights, you will have a direct impact on strategic business initiatives. Using market leading analytical tools, you will ensure that approaches and trends in ratemaking, planning, and forecasting result in reserve adequacy across varied commercial lines of business. While each day and situation bring new challenges, our reserving actuaries effectively develop solutions to complex problems by taking ownership of the reserving process ensuring AXA XL can meet financial obligations. Through your reserving initiatives in multiple growth segments, you will be task-focused on providing insightful business intelligence, providing oversight on global reserving initiatives to enable AXA XL to react more quickly to emerging trends within the market.

Requirements

Actuarial work experience within the property and casualty insurance or reinsurance industry.
FCAS or seasoned ACAS.
Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, or related field.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly and concisely with internal and external clients who have varying levels of actuarial knowledge.
Excellent time management skills, including the ability to handle multiple simultaneous tasks.
Excellent interpersonal skills, especially the ability to work well within our collaborative team environment.
Robust analytical and research skills with the ability to use a wide variety of business productivity software.
Outstanding Excel and Microsoft Office skills for data extraction, manipulation, reporting, documentation, and presentations.
Experience with reserving methods and tools to structure, access, and manage data sets for modeling and managing risk.
Ability to hit the ground running yet comfortable asking questions to develop business knowledge and effective solutions.

Responsibilities

Supporting the development of reserve indications while proactively evaluating and retrospectively reviewing reserve performance.
Performing deep-dive analytics to develop forward-looking recommendations for senior leadership.
Building effective relationships with key stakeholders / business partners in finance and underwriting by acting as a consultative business partner in influencing business decisions.
Supporting strategic actuarial initiatives by providing insightful business intelligence.
Preparing actuarial reports and exhibits on business unit results to concentrate resources on emerging risk areas.
Collaborating with actuarial and other financial teams around the globe.
Staying abreast of current trends and developments in assigned functional areas.