Actuarial Data Analyst

at  MS Amlin

Actuarial Data Analyst
Our Reserving team has a key position in our evolving business. The team is pivotal to our financial and regulatory reporting and crucial to providing insight on our business performance. High quality and comprehensive data is a key part of these processes.
The team are involved in data processing, discussions with stakeholders, projections and analysis that underpins the work of the team. The role requires bringing together sound technical knowledge on the data requirements for reserving processes and provide support to the Reserving team.
About The Job
What you’ll spend your time doing:

Here’s a snapshot of some of the key parts of the job:

• Ensure data that feeds into reserving processes are robust
• Understand existing issues with data feeding into reserving processes
• Communicate data remediations required by the Reserving team to IT developers
• Document business requirements to instruct change into the small change portfolio
• Document and carry out user acceptance testing to ensure changes made to central data systems are suitable for reserving purposes
• Provide support to the reserving team when changes are made to systems upstream
• Work with the reserving, data and operations teams to ensure robust data controls are implemented in automated ways and appropriate reporting is available to ensure any defects are flagged
• Work with the reserving, data and operations teams to develop testing capabilities
• Engage with other business areas to define outputs required by the Reserving team
• Work with the data and operations teams to ensure all data processing and associated systems specifications are clearly documented

You’re going to enjoy this job if you…

• Are a strong problem solver who enjoys thinking through the best way of processing data and analysing information
• Have an inquisitive mind and question what you are doing and why
• Can communicate complicated concepts effectively in person and in writing
• Have a high attention to detail and accuracy
• Think strategically about implications and the potential for impact

What you’ll need:

For this particular role we need you to have:

• Experience in an actuarial role considering appropriate analysis and solving problems (does not have to be in reserving)
• Familiarity with the data requirements for reserving exercises
• Good logical reasoning skills coupled with commercial acumen
• Excellent communication skills

About Ms Amlin
MS Amlin is part of a global top-10 insurance group, MS&AD. We’re made up of four distinct businesses covering global reinsurance, Lloyds franchise, local specialty insurer, and business services.
This role sits within our Lloyd’s franchise (MS AUL) business which manages syndicate 2001. This is one of the largest syndicates in the Lloyd’s market writing a diverse range of insurance and reinsurance business.
Conduct Rules

With the implementation of the SM&CR (Senior Managers & Certification Regime), the Financial Services and Markets Act gave the FCA new powers to write conduct rules and apply them to all employees within a firm. The Conduct Rules set basic standards of good personal conduct. They stipulate that you must:

• Act with integrity
• Act with due care, skill and diligence
• Be open and co-operative with the FCA, PRA and other regulators
• Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly
• Observe proper standards of market conduct

• Experience in an actuarial role considering appropriate analysis and solving problems (does not have to be in reserving)
• Familiarity with the data requirements for reserving exercises
• Good logical reasoning skills coupled with commercial acumen
• Excellent communication skill