Beazley Management Limited
Lead Capital Actuary
City of London
$0/yr
Posted 4 months ago
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General
Job description and person specification
Job Title: Lead Capital Actuary
Division: Finance
Reports To: As per Beazley’s organisation chart
Key Relationships: Members of Actuarial, Finance, and Underwriting teams
Job Summary:
To lead and be accountable for the Group’s regulatory capital modelling and submission processes, including ownership of the internal model and oversight of internal model validation, ensuring ongoing compliance with Solvency II and other applicable regulatory standards.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage the teams responsible for:
- Regulatory capital calculations and submissions (including SCR, validation reporting and associated governance)
- Internal model development, maintenance and ongoing validation
- Maintain, develop and enhance the internal capital model so that it continues to appropriately reflect the risk profile and business strategy
- Own the regulatory submissions, acting as a key contact for regulators
- Ensure that the internal model, validation framework and capital submissions meet all applicable Solvency II and internal governance standards
- Lead model change, validation and regulatory approval processes, including preparation for regulatory reviews
- Develop and embed robust model governance, documentation and controls
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with Risk, Finance, Underwriting and Compliance teams
Other Responsibilities:
- Develop a understanding of the business and risk profile to enhance the quality and relevance of capital analysis
- Coach, develop and performance-manage team members, creating a strong pipeline of actuarial talent
- Drive continuous improvement in modelling, validation and reporting processes
- Ensure compliance with relevant policies, procedures and regulatory requirements
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General:
At Beazley we are committed to doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do. It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to this principle through adoption of Beazley’s core values and behaviours – PIED and Being Beazley.
- Adopt the Beazley culture of Professionalism, Integrity, Effectiveness and Dynamic that contribute to an internal environment of teamwork and promote a positive brand image and experience to our external customers.
- Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct which incorporates the PRA and FCA Conduct Rules. Undertake relevant training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, the Culture & People development or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system.
- Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers.
- Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs.
- Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, the Culture & People development or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas. This may include, amongst others, Beazley’s underwriting control standards, Beazley’s claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management.
- Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system. These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups.
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Personal Specification:
Education and Qualifications
- University degree, post-graduate preferred, in a quantitative or analytical discipline
- Part qualified actuary or willing to undertake the actuarial exams
Skills and Abilities
- Strong modelling skills
- Able to communicate effectively with internal staff and regulators, both verbally and in writing
- Team worker as well as able to work on own initiative
- General commercial and financial knowledge
- The ability to manage time, meet deadlines and prioritise
- Strong Programming skills with exposure to MS Excel 2007, MS Access 2007, and VBA
- Understanding of statistical concepts and exposure to using statistical software with an ability to learn new technologies quickly
Knowledge and Experience
- Professional work experience; exposure to insurance industry advantageous
- Data analysis and research
Aptitude and Disposition
- Outcome focussed, flexible and enthusiastic
- Interested in helping and educating others
- Professional approach
- Keen to interact with various departments in the group
Competencies
- Using databases (familiarity with SQL)
- Programming skills (VBA preferred)
- Information seeking
- Self starter
- Willingness to learn
- Analytical thinking
- Problem solver
- Team work
- Initiative
- Integrity
- Accuracy
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Skills
Capital modelling
Solvency II
Regulatory reporting
Internal model validation
Actuarial analysis
VBA
SQL
Programming
Data analysis
Risk management
Financial knowledge
Communication
Team leadership
Statistical software
Problem solving
Analytical thinking