Join SCOR's Global Modelling Centre (GMC) and be at the heart of a global transformation in Life & Health (L&H) Reserving in Dublin or Paris.
We're looking for a modelling expert to help revolutionise our tools and processes, drive best practices across international teams, and shape the future of actuarial performance.
This is your chance to make a global impact, deliver thought leadership, and be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking team driving SCOR's actuarial excellence.
If you are a qualified actuary, curious and creative and looking for a strategic & innovative role then this could be the next opportunity for you.
As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying "The Art & Science of Risk," SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.
Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry - actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others - as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.
As an international company, our common culture is defined by "The SCOR Way." Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.
SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.
As a valued member of the Global Modelling Centre (GMC), you will play an important role in SCOR's Life and Health (L&H) Reserving modelling strategy to deliver a transformation vision for modelling tools and processes, and ensuring best practice is adopted globally across all our modelling teams.
A key element to the role will be to provide modelling expertise to optimise, simplify and transform SCOR's L&H Reserving modelling capabilities and help the Global Modelling Centre own key stakeholder relationships in relation to modelling, including with IT and Data functions, and the L&H reserving teams. You will also support L&H Reserving colleagues to further develop or enhance their skills in Prophet, Milliman Mind and other modelling tools.
The Global Modelling Centre is a key part of the Global Reserving Centre (GRC) within SCOR's L&H Reserving team. The GRC team is based across the US, Dublin, London, Paris and Singapore, responsible for managing global reserving topics, providing guidance & direct support to SCOR's L&H reserving teams worldwide, delivering thought leadership and insights on actuarial drivers of performance, leading activity on SCORs L&H reserving strategy and providing actuarial support on projects.
Some of the key areas of responsibility will be as follows;
* Contribute to the development and ownership of the global modelling strategy for L&H reserving, supporting delivery of the vision for target tools and modelling processes.
* Develop a deep understanding of modelling processes in all markets. Provide direct support and guidance to local modelling teams. Suggest improvements to models/processes, consulting on possible approaches, providing expertise, developing prototypes and examples where relevant.
* Supporting L&H Reserving colleagues to further develop or enhance their skills in Prophet, Milliman Mind and other modelling tools.
* Support the GMC's global relationship with IT, ensuring the required support, reliability and performance is delivered to the modelling and reserving teams. Coordinate across the modelling teams in relation to IT topics.
* Support the GMC's global relationship with the Data Platform team, connecting L&H Reserving into the global data strategy, focusing on the specific needs of the reserving function. Suggest improvements and develop solutions to optimise the use of quality data in L&H Reserving.
* Work closely with other teams in the Global Reserving Centre to collaborate and coordinate on key transformational initiatives and opportunities.
* Help to maintain GMC's modelling guidelines to ensure all local modelling teams adhere to best practice in terms of coding standards, control & governance frameworks and documentation.
* Provide support to regional modelling projects as required.
* Some travel to other SCOR office locations will be required.
The ideal candidate should have the following experience and skills;
Experience:
* Qualified Actuary (FIA, FSA or equivalent) with minimum 5-10 years relevant experience
* Experience of building & optimizing actuarial modelling tools and processes.
* Expertise with actuarial projection software such as Prophet (required), AXIS, Milliman Mind.
* Experience in programming tools such as Python (preferred)
* Experience in working on projects, workstreams and/or teams; collaborating with senior stakeholders.
* Experience in training others on new software, tools and processes.
Personal Competences:
* Enjoys working at pace, in a collaborative and open environment with global teams
* Flexible and agile
* Strong technical skill set, passionate about improving processes
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* Proactive, takes strong ownership, committed to delivery
* Interest in career and skill development
If this sounds like the right role for you then please don't hesitate to apply.