Vice President – Reinsurance Actuary

General Overview

Vice President – Reinsurance Actuar

Key Responsibilities

• Partner closely with brokers, clients, and internal stakeholders to support portfolio strategy, business growth, and reinsurance decision-making.
• Perform actuarial and portfolio analyses across general insurance portfolios, including pricing adequacy, volatility assessments, retention optimization, and reinsurance structuring.
• Develop, validate, and interpret actuarial models, loss projections, stress testing scenarios, and portfolio performance metrics.
• Support the design and optimization of proportional and non-proportional reinsurance structures, including quota share, excess of loss, and hybrid arrangements.
• Translate complex technical analyses into clear commercial insights and strategic recommendations for clients and business leaders.
• Collaborate on client presentations, renewal negotiations, placement strategies, and market-facing initiatives.
• Review methodologies, challenge assumptions, and ensure analytical outputs meet governance, quality, and regulatory standards.
• Contribute to the development of actuarial frameworks, analytical tools, and process improvement initiatives.
• Support business development efforts through technical expertise, market insights, and client engagement activities.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, brokers, reinsurers, and regional stakeholders.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Data Science, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Qualified or Near-Qualified Actuary (FIA, FIAI, FCAS, or equivalent).
• Minimum 8+ years of actuarial, reinsurance analytics, or portfolio management experience.
• Strong understanding of actuarial principles, portfolio analytics, reinsurance pricing methodologies, and treaty structures.
• Proven experience assessing risk, validating analytical outputs, and delivering commercially relevant recommendations.
• Strong knowledge of proportional and non-proportional reinsurance solutions.
• Experience within a reinsurance broker, reinsurer, or insurance company environment is highly preferred.
• Exposure to client-facing engagements, renewal strategies, and reinsurance placement activities.
• Proficiency in actuarial and analytical tools such as R, Python, SQL, Alteryx, Power BI, or similar platforms is advantageous.
• Excellent communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills.
• Strong commercial acumen combined with exceptional analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.