Description
Role Title: Reserving Actuary - Controller
Department: LII & LMRe Global Reserving
Location: London
Type: Permanent
About the Role:
The role is fundamental to delivery of reserving in a coordinated, robust and rigorous fashion. The "Reserving Actuary - Controller" reports to the Reserving Controller, supporting them in facilitating the LII & LMRe reserving process right through from operations to the reporting of results to management. Further responsibilities are listed below.
About the Department & Team:
The LII & LMRe Reserving team is part of the Global Reserving team within Global Risk Solutions Actuarial & Data Science Solutions. Our team is responsible for actuarial reserving analysis across LII and LMRe businesses providing transparent and independent view of business performance through consistently applied reserving best practice. Acting as independent trusted advisors to the business the team is responsible for objectively communicating the quarterly reserve analyses with insight and confidence.
Key Responsibilities:
Priorities
- Manage the central estimate process, delivering quarterly reserve and margin analysis to the LII & LM Re and GRS senior leadership.
- Ensure robust outcomes - execute on our control framework including formal controls, and regulatory and audit requirements.
- Support across the breadth of the quarterly US GAAP reserving process (gross and net of outwards reinsurance) across LII and LMRe globally.
- Support the transition to the new operating model which will involve close collaboration our stakeholders as well as tactical and strategic process improvement initiatives.
Consolidation and collaboration
- Stakeholders: the broader reserving team, GRS Head Office, Corporate Reserving and the finance function.
- Act as a trusted independent advisor to the business that communicates the quarterly reserve analyses with insight and confidence, grounded in technical rigor and objectivity.
- Manage and develop the reporting capabilities of the reserving team to ensure stakeholders have access to the MI and insights needed to improve underwriting outcomes.
- Support coordination of response to thematic issues e.g. excess economic inflation modelling.
- Collaborate across GRS Actuarial & Data Science Solutions and partner functions to share knowledge and improve business outcomes, embracing the One GRS culture and the team of teams approach to problem solving.
Operations quality and control
- Ensure the quality, accuracy and appropriateness of data and its consistent application in the reserving process.
- Continually seek opportunities to improve processes and controls so LII & LMRe reserving deliverables remain timely, accurate and regulatory-compliant..
People and professionalism
- Foster a culture of technical rigor, transparency, and consistency.
- Be an inclusive leader committed to mentoring and developing team members to assume progressively senior actuarial and business leadership roles.
- Undertake your role with due regard to the prescribed responsibilities and regulatory requirements associated with the Actuarial Function - which may require undertaking appropriate learning & development.
- Professional standards - Adherence to all relevant regulatory requirements forms part of your role, and the demonstration of behaviours as set out in the Conduct Risk Policy, as they relate to your role, is core to LII & LM Re's commitment to placing customers at the centre of our business and behaving with integrity. LII & LM Re expects you to understand your responsibilities relating to all regulatory and internal requirements, and to proactively demonstrate compliance with these requirements and behaviours at all times. These requirements include Solvency II, fair treatment of customers, Financial Crime, Data Protection, Conflicts of Interest, and Whistleblowing.
Skills and Experience:
- Fellow of the Institute and/or Faculty of Actuaries (or equivalent qualification).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, with commercial awareness to support decisions that align with strategic objectives.
- Reserving experience in the London Market and broad knowledge of specialty insurance and reinsurance portfolios.
- Able to manage multiple competing projects and priorities, with strong interpersonal skills to provide effective stakeholder support.
- Equally comfortable working independently or as part of a broader team.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to explain technical issues clearly to audiences of differing technical ability and seniority.
- Self-motivated, mature and resilient, with a constructive professional attitude.
- Demonstrated ability to perform effectively through periods of change and transformation
About Liberty Mutual Insurance Group
Liberty Mutual's purpose is to help people embrace today and confidently pursue tomorrow. Keeping this promise means we are there when our policyholders throughout the world need us most.
Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM) and Liberty Mutual Re (LMRe) are part of Global Risk Solutions and the broader Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, which is a leading global insurer. We offer a breadth of world-class insurance and reinsurance services to brokers and insureds in all major markets. LSM is managed internally as Liberty International Insurance (LII) comprising our insurances business globally writing in UK &Ireland, MENA, Europe, APAC and LatAm.
Our people are key to our success. That is why "Put People First" is one of the five Liberty values which unite us as a global organisation. We bring this to life for our colleagues through:
- Offering a vibrant and inclusive environment and committing to their career development.
- Promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Our Inclusion Matters framework and employee-led networks strengthen the diversity of our workforce and our inclusive environment.
- Reinforcing that collaborating together to share our unique perspectives help us make better decisions, deliver innovative solutions and pursue our ambitious goals.
- A supportive culture, which includes promoting a healthy work-life balance and working flexibly.
For more information, please follow the links below:
https://www.libertyspecialtymarkets.com/gb-en/careers/working-for-us
https://www.libertyspecialtymarkets.com/gb-en/careers/diversity-inclusion-wellbeing/diversity-and-inclusion
https://www.libertymutualre.com/careers/working-for-us
https://www.libertymutualre.com/careers/diversity-inclusion-wellbeing/inclusion-matters-networks
About Liberty Specialty Markets
Liberty Specialty Markets offers commercial and specialty insurance and reinsurance products for businesses and organisations across targeted sectors worldwide.