Senior Actuarial Analyst / Actuarial Consultant - Pricing Excellence

Job Overview

Wawanesa is looking for an exceptional candidate to take on the role of Actuarial Consultant or Senior Actuarial Analyst in our Commercial Lines Pricing Excellence team. As a member of Commercial Pricing Excellence, you will play a key role in building the data, modelling, and reporting foundations that will underpin improvements to pricing sophistication and portfolio management across all Commercial Pricing. You will be responsible for applying your technical expertise and business acumen to design flexible and extensible solutions to a variety of business problems and collaborating with other product pricing teams to deliver strategic priorities.

Note: We are open to hiring at multiple levels Senior Actuarial Analyst, Actuarial Consultant, or Senior Actuarial Consultant level.

Job Responsibilities

• Researches, extracts, and manipulates complex data from relevant sources, and assesses data quality.
• Supports the business and overall team by performing analyses/reviews and completing ad-hoc requests/special projects in a timely manner with some support from peers and leaders.
• Evaluates procedures and processes, and suggests potential alternatives or improvements.
• Evaluates existing processes to find areas for increased efficiency.
• Identifies opportunities for automation of routine tasks.
• Suggests new approaches to problem solving and assess impacts of solution options with some support from leaders.
• Maintains knowledge of current industry news and trends, and considers their impact on Wawanesa.
• Encouraged to represent Wawanesa at external events that may include universities, actuarial clubs, industry organizations, and charitable causes.
• Commits to professional development and continuous experiential learning to build cross-functional knowledge, technical skills, and mastery in competencies.
• Provides regular project updates to stakeholders.
• Builds trust with teams around the actuarial function. Knows when to ask for the expertise of others.
• Actively contributes to the mentorship, training and development of actuarial analysts.
• Reviews analysis of peers and provides thoughtful feedback on reasonableness, completeness and accuracy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or other related discipline.
• More than two years of actuarial experience.
• Working towards ACAS designation; 4 CAS exams an asset.
• Advanced knowledge of actuarial science, mathematics, probability, statistics, principles of finance and business, and strong ability to apply this knowledge to problems in insurance.
• Ability to proactively identify issues and initiate actions.
• Strong attention to detail when performing analysis with minimal technical errors.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, demonstrating the ability to convey complex business and actuarial terminology and insights that are meaningful to and well received by the intended audience.
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency with Python, SQL, R, and/or other related software/programming languages.
• Experience with machine learning techniques an asset.
• Experience working with AWS tools such as S3, Athena, Redshift and Glue, or equivalent tools in a different cloud environment an asset.
• Experience in Commercial Pricing an asset.

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