Pricing Actuary

at  Avant

About Avant
Avant is Australia’s leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 125 years.
Avant now represents 80,000 health practitioners and medical students across every state and territory, delivering market leading products and services to meet their professional, personal and practice needs. Building on this heritage, our vision is to be the most trusted professional partner in supporting doctors throughout their lives and careers.
As a mutual organisation, owned by members and run purely for their benefit, our members are at the centre of all we do. As well as providing products and services to our member, we play a broader community role by advocating for improvements in the healthcare system and in quality, safety and professionalism in medicine, through delivering education and research activities.
An opportunity is available for a Pricing Actuary to join our Pricing and Analytics team in a full-time capacity for a 12-month fixed-term contract. This position will take a leading role in the Pricing and Analytics team in delivering Avant’s pricing and portfolio management. The role also involves delivering internal actuarial analysis, advice and recommendations for a range of areas across Avant.

• Take a leading role within the Pricing and Analytics team in delivering actuarial analysis and performance monitoring to support product pricing, portfolio management and optimisation of risk intervention outcomes.
• Deliver other actuarial and analytical services to the broader Avant business as required.
• Assist the Medical Indemnity Division to progressively drive an agenda of commerciality of the general insurance business and excellence in insurance management by delivering sustainable growth of the insurance portfolios and pro-actively reducing claims costs through risk intervention and the efficient use of medical defence costs.
• Mentor and develop junior team members, facilitating strong internal client relationships and ensuring quality, transparency, and consistency of actuarial and analytical advice.
• Support the development of the Pricing and Analytics team’s vision and deliver Avant’s approach to technical support for pricing and portfolio management, including reporting, monitoring and analysis.