Senior Actuarial Manager, Home Planning & Monitoring

Description

The US Retail Markets (USRM) Personal Lines (PL) Property & Specialty Analytics team is seeking a Director, Actuary, to lead our Home Planning & Monitoring team. The team is responsible for crafting holistic and compelling opinions of the loss ratio and top-line as part of the quarterly forecast, using advanced techniques to project frequency, severity, renewal business volume and premium-level drivers, and other top-line metrics. This team also synthesizes all key loss ratio inputs to the US financial plan and monitor internal and external information to find opportunities to improve business performance. This leader will lead the team to communicate insights and results, inform senior leadership on emerging areas of risk to plan, and collaborate with key partners to drive the right actions. This position will report directly to the PL Property & Specialty Analytics Manager and lead a highly engaged team.

• Possess excellent business judgment and influencing skills.
• Enjoy identifying and solving complex analytical problems.
• Be comfortable owning critical analyses that receive significant visibility.
• Can explain such work in non-technical (business) contexts.
• Be capable of driving change to meet the business needs of customers.
• Command effective communication skills, which are essential, as there will be a significant level of interaction with other functional areas.

• Coalesce information from numerous sources to create the PL Home financial loss ratio plan narrative (including internal, industry and macroeconomic insights); disseminate across the organization including senior leaders.
• Oversee in-depth analytical analyses, including the use of multivariate approaches, to explain historical and current results, and forecast future trends.
• Identify, research, and analyze current and emerging forces that impact trends and financial loss ratio results.
• Own the analysis and selection of projected trends for the upcoming plan years, consulting with stakeholders to incorporate relevant perspectives and understand drivers of differing viewpoints.
• Collaborate with cross-functional areas such as Finance and Product to understand and isolate drivers of the financial loss ratio plan/forecast and calendar year results.
• Create a culture of innovation to build and enhance models, analysis, and tools, as well as create efficiencies in our processes.
• Model inclusiveness by living our Values, fostering an inclusive culture, and proactively seeking out all forms of diversity.
• Develop talent by building and elevating capabilities within the team, including development and talent evaluation and forming resilient teams that can attract talent with wide backgrounds that contribute to diversity of thought.

• Bachelor's degree required. Fellowship in the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS) designation required, or comparable actuarial education/designation combined with relevant experience.
• Demonstrated ability to exert influence over senior managers, operating managers, and others on matters of importance to the SBU.
• Analytical skills with expert understanding of all actuarial techniques, standards, and assumptions.
• Demonstrated expertise in financial management of a P&C business.
• Ability to manage a mix of assignments that will be both strategic and tactical.
• Demonstrated ability to exchange ideas and convey complex information clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills required to establish and build effective relationships within and outside the organization.
• Ability to give effective presentations to senior management and other groups.
• Demonstrated ability to organize, lead, get work done through others and to select and develop talent.

• California
• Los Angeles Incorporated
• Los Angeles Unincorporated
• Philadelphia
• San Francisco