Non-Life Reserving Actuary part time / full time

Reinsurance

For other companies, it's merely lip service. For us, it is a guiding principle: &Go. It stands for the trust we place in our employees and their abilities. Because we believe that shared success is only possible when everyone is given the scope they need to let their talents unfold in the best possible way. The best way not only for your personal development, but for the development of the company as a whole.

In this role, you will be responsible for the reserving and reporting processes of the non-life department of Helvetia Active Reinsurance. You will contribute to the creation and development of this business by building the reserving tools, and providing the documentation, controls and actuarial assumptions needed. With these in place, you will deliver the ongoing reporting to ensure that we have identified and adequately reserved the risks written in the portfolio.
We are looking for a qualified and motivated person with a good balance of market knowledge, creativity, technical excellence and experience. We look forward to receiving your application.

Your responsibility

• Perform quarterly the reserving process for business and write actuarial report


• Tool building, maintenance and development for reserving


• Calculation and analysis of technical reserves of under IFRS 4, IFRS 17


• Implementation of IFRS 17 methods for business


• Develop and maintain documentation and controls


• Analysis of results, movements and reserves sensitivities


• Calculation and analysis of the profitability of the business, calculating KPIs like the new business margin and analysing trends


• Reporting to the local and group management


• Contact with external auditors


• Develop and validate actuarial methods for valuation/reserves according to SST and Solvency II


• 80 - 100%

Your qualification

• Qualified non-life actuary (FIA/SAV or equivalent), with 7+ years post qualification experience reserving non-life reinsurance and developing reserving tools


• Very sound understanding of the relevant standards and principles


• Experience with multiple IT tools such as Excel and R


• Good understanding of key industry issue and trends


• Strong analytical skills, with hands-on Data Analytics experience being a big advantage


• Very good command of spoken and written English

LocationSt. Gallen / ZurichType of contractFull-timeWorking experienceWith work experienceStart date01.01.2020

What we offer

Contact

Simone Schlegel Moser
Recruiting Partner
(+41) 58 280 5732

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Pascal Gabathuler
Chief Reinsurance Actuary

Working at Helvetia

At Helvetia we look for people with distinctive strengths and weaknesses – genuine personalities with a bold, wholehearted approach who will not be deterred by the odd headwind. After all, it's only by trying out new ideas and learning from them that we can move forward both as individuals and as a company. We place this confidence in all our employees and this is precisely what makes working for Helvetia so special. Our take on this: &Go.

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