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Pricing Analyst
Starr – Actuarial Pricing Analyst Role
Overview
About us
Starr is a global insurance and investment organisation providing property and casualty insurance solutions to business and industry. With operations spanning 128 countries across six continents, it is one of the world’s fastest growing insurance organisations. Our diverse, talented workforce manages risk effectively to support the growth of organisations in an ever-evolving marketplace. Join Starr and contribute to our dynamic, inclusive environment.
Role Purpose
The Actuarial Pricing Analyst provides specialist analytical support to pricing actuaries across all of Starr’s lines of business. Operating within a pooled resource model, the role involves:
- Collaborating with underwriters, actuaries, and the wider pricing function
- Delivering high-quality pricing analysis, model support, and management information
- Ensuring pricing quality and consistency across Starr’s portfolio
Key Responsibilities
Actuarial Pricing Support
- Support divisional actuaries in case pricing, portfolio pricing, and ad-hoc analytical work
- Assist with calibration exercises to reduce model adjustments, bias, or anomalies
- Review and validate underwriting adjustments to model outputs, escalating concerns as required
- Maintain and update pricing model parameters (Tier 3 and below), ensuring accurate documentation
- Perform low-level code updates to deployed pricing models as directed, with appropriate testing and sign-off
- Assess and contribute to back-testing and model reviews, providing supporting documentation
Data & Management Information
- Maintain pricing function data sources, ensuring integrity and validating insights
- Design and deliver class-specific management information, including key metrics such as:
- Pricing adequacy
- Rate change proposals
- Return on capital (RoC)
- Identify and escalate data quality issues to the Divisional Actuary and Technical Pricing team
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Collaboration & Governance
- Engage closely with underwriters, reserving, capital modelling, and exposure management teams to align best practices
- Serve as the primary point of contact for underwriters using pricing tools, troubleshooting platform issues and supporting daily operations
- Gain a working understanding of the hx Renew pricing platform – including model construction, maintenance, and deployment
- Fully comply with pricing governance policies and model release standards
- Support pricing training for underwriting teams, if directed by the Divisional Actuary
Continuous Improvement
- Drive research and improvements in:
- Data quality
- Modelling techniques
- Pricing efficiency
- Identify and implement automation and AI opportunities across pricing workflows
Note
These duties are not exhaustive—additional responsibilities may be assigned based on business needs.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience
Essential
- Actuarial experience in reserving, capital modelling, or general insurance pricing preferred
- Strong analytical and numerical skills with meticulous attention to detail
- Experience handling large datasets and proficiency in Excel for data analysis
- Clear written and verbal communication skills to build relationships with underwriters and actuarial colleagues
- Ability to prioritise tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
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Preferred
- Familiarity with London Market or specialty insurance, including:
- Rating structures
- Calibration methods
- Parameterisation techniques
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Experience with Python or R (or other coding languages)
- Exposure to model governance and audit readiness in regulated environments
- Prior working knowledge of hx Renew or similar pricing platforms
Performance Measures
- Quality, accuracy, and timeliness of analytical and pricing support provided
- Precision of model parameter updates and low-level code adjustments, supported by testing and documentation
- Quality and timeliness of management information (MI) for business reporting
- Effective collaboration with underwriters and actuarial colleagues
- Full adherence to pricing policies, governance standards, and release processes
Core Behavioural Competencies
- Analysis & decision-making
- Innovation & problem-solving
- Commercial awareness
- Relationship-building
- Communication & influence
- Personal and team development
Additional Information
- Starr is an equal opportunity employer, actively promoting diversity and fair hiring practices.
- Training and development are integral to Starr’s culture, creating opportunities for career growth.
- Full job description available here.
Join Starr and shape the future of insurance pricing and risk management!
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