Senior Team Lead- Actuarial Experience Studies

You will join the exciting Swiss Re journey to transform its global L&H experience studies (ES) landscape by shaping, influencing, introducing and maintaining a new standardised and state-of-the-art solution that is built for the global L&H experience studies community.

About the Team:

The Leap R Migration Team is being formed as a global team to support adoption of the Leap R tool by the local experience studies teams. Leap R has been developed based on a global methodology, to enable ES actuaries to utilise R efficiently undertake experience studies, in a way that facilitates improved generation of insights for pricing and other stakeholders. The Leap R Migration team will work with the Experience Studies Centre and collaborate closely with the local ES teams to deliver migration targets.

The Experience Studies Centre is part of the OVAL and Global Experience studies team, within L&H Portfolio Steering & Monitoring (PSM) under the Chief Underwriting Office (CUO). We aim to implement a standardised and state-of-the-art Experience Studies solutions that enables effective generation of insights of the L&H business to proactively steer L&H Re in delivering sustainable profits.

About the Role:

The candidate will be a member of the Leap R Migration Team. Leap R is replacing SAS and R as the experience studies calculation engine for L&H (ex. North America). The Leap R Migration Team is being formed to support rollout and adoption of the Leap R ES engine by the local experience studies teams in Asia and EMEA.
You will be responsible for leading a team of actuarial analysts who will be migrating studies, currently undertaken with SAS or R, to Leap R, including data preparation and documenting of process. Through this, you will have accountability for the delivery of experience analyses for stakeholders including experience studies, pricing and valuation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide day-to-day management for a team undertaking experience studies with Leap R, migrated from existing solutions
• Provide hands-on support as required, and works closely and collaboratively with the local experience studies teams to achieve annual migration targets
• Support validating and reconciling study results with previous studies undertaken with SAS or R
• Analyse and interpret findings, formulate and communicate conclusions
• Follow the processes, framework and standard operating procedure for work to be undertaken by the Leap R Migration Team
• Ensure experience studies are migrated in line with global experience studies methodology and standards
• Perform reviews of work and ensure correct documentation of Leap R migrations
• Foster strong collaboration with colleagues across regions and central teams to ensure alignment and contribution to a common global experience studies approach

About You:

Essentials

• Strong actuarial experience with 9+ years in either L&H reinsurance, primary insurance or consulting
• Working knowledge in R
• Prior hands-on working experience with L&H experience studies work
• Organisation, prioritisation and planning skills
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and influencing skills.
• Able to interact with colleagues across all levels and multiple locations of the organisation and work toward a common goal

• Able to work independently and in a team (including cross functional teams) to contribute to successful delivery of work

• Strong analytical skills and the ability and courage to constructively challenge decisions based on emerging information, but also have the business mindset to be solutions oriented

Nice to Have

• Expertise in a variety of L&H products, ideally across multiple global markets / regions