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You will be responsible for International Motor, part of the liability lines of AXA XL’s International business group. This equates to gross reserves in excess of $500m and annual gross earned premiums of c$250m. You will also assist the Head of Reserving – International Liability Lines with International Casualty, another part of the liability lines of AXA XL’s International business group. This portfolio contains gross reserves in excess of $7bn and annual gross earned premiums of c$1.5bn.
In achieving this, you will work closely with other teams within Actuarial Financial Reporting (AFR), with respective pricing actuaries, with the wider Global Finance team, and will exchange with the providers of independent actuarial opinion(s).
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What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Valuation Analysis: within the AFR framework, the valuation is completed twice a year following quarter 1 and quarter 3 Actual vs Expected analysis:
• Assessing, reviewing and challenging the appropriateness of methodologies and assumptions across relevant lines of business, and driving changes where this is considered appropriate.
• Reviewing the rationalisation of any changes to methods and assumptions and the impact on financial reporting.
• Quarterly Financial Reporting: Delivery of quarterly performance analysis for International Motor. This will include consideration of emerging experience:
• You will have responsibility for the reserving of the Underwriting Unit.
• Assessing, reviewing and challenging all reserving decisions made in respect of these businesses along with presentation and provision of management information to the legal entity actuaries and to the Global Chief Actuary.
• Ensuring all reporting deliverables are met by the team through the Quarter End Process to allow for full consultation with the business and to meet financial reporting requirements.
• Leading the consultation with underwriters and management regarding experience in the quarter, implications for financial reporting and recommendation for areas of consideration through the valuation analysis.
• Reviewing and challenging all material movements and impacts in the quarter across relevant businesses.
• Assessing, reviewing and challenging (where necessary) any second opinion results, in addition to the annual audit process.
• Profitability Analysis: Regularly evaluating the ongoing profitability of the business feeding into Business Planning considerations, but also to support portfolio management and strategy within the business.
• Business Planning: The AFR team is a key contributor to the development of the AXA XL division business plan each year, and this role actively participates in the setting of the budget loss ratios at the different portfolio levels. This will include evaluating underwriting strategies with the business and their pricing actuaries.
• Legal Entity Support: AXA XL writes business through a number of different legal entities. You will contribute to legal entity assessments and support the rationalisation of legal entity changes and impacts for these businesses.
• Special Projects: Alongside your business and legal entity responsibilities, you may also become involved in special projects intended to contribute to the development of the AFR team as a whole, which could involve development of processes or exhibits or focused investigations regarding new methodologies or assumptions potentially impacting the reserving analysis for all lines.

You will report to the Head of Reserving - International Casualty, AFR.

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We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

REQUIRED SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Qualified actuary with experience within the non-life insurance Industry, with a significant focus on reserving. Knowledge of ResQ software and excel add-in would be an advantage.
• Ability to manage multiple conflicting tasks and outputs. Able to plan long term deliverables and ensure tasks are planned and completed accordingly and that any delays or complications are communicated early and resolved appropriately.
• Capability to navigate in a global actuarial organization with multiple stakeholders within both the Central Actuarial teams and the Regional Actuarial teams. A key part of the role will be to develop and maintain excellent working relationships with these teams as the actuarial team is a global function.
• Strong Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication, collaboration and presentation skills. Must have the ability to communicate even negative or difficult messages in a constructive and effective manner at all levels. Relevant experience of presenting and communicating ultimate claims movements and trends to underwriters.
• Business Partnering: Able to demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of the businesses responsible for, as well as translate actuarial output into business value, ensuring various customers are able to understand the practical implications of our analyses and how the information provided can help them to make appropriate business decisions.
• Strategic Thinking and Tactical Implementation: Ability to invent, design and build solutions.

• Valuation Analysis: within the AFR framework, the valuation is completed twice a year following quarter 1 and quarter 3 Actual vs Expected analysis:
• Assessing, reviewing and challenging the appropriateness of methodologies and assumptions across relevant lines of business, and driving changes where this is considered appropriate.
• Reviewing the rationalisation of any changes to methods and assumptions and the impact on financial reporting.
• Quarterly Financial Reporting: Delivery of quarterly performance analysis for International Motor. This will include consideration of emerging experience:
• You will have responsibility for the reserving of the Underwriting Unit.
• Assessing, reviewing and challenging all reserving decisions made in respect of these businesses along with presentation and provision of management information to the legal entity actuaries and to the Global Chief Actuary.
• Ensuring all reporting deliverables are met by the team through the Quarter End Process to allow for full consultation with the business and to meet financial reporting requirements.
• Leading the consultation with underwriters and management regarding experience in the quarter, implications for financial reporting and recommendation for areas of consideration through the valuation analysis.
• Reviewing and challenging all material movements and impacts in the quarter across relevant businesses.
• Assessing, reviewing and challenging (where necessary) any second opinion results, in addition to the annual audit process.
• Profitability Analysis: Regularly evaluating the ongoing profitability of the business feeding into Business Planning considerations, but also to support portfolio management and strategy within the business.
• Business Planning: The AFR team is a key contributor to the development of the AXA XL division business plan each year, and this role actively participates in the setting of the budget loss ratios at the different portfolio levels. This will include evaluating underwriting strategies with the business and their pricing actuaries.
• Legal Entity Support: AXA XL writes business through a number of different legal entities. You will contribute to legal entity assessments and support the rationalisation of legal entity changes and impacts for these businesses.
• Special Projects: Alongside your business and legal entity responsibilities, you may also become involved in special projects intended to contribute to the development of the AFR team as a whole, which could involve development of processes or exhibits or focused investigations regarding new methodologies or assumptions potentially impacting the reserving analysis for all lines