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Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of predictive models across underwriting, claims, and customer segmentation.
- Integrate emerging data sources (geospatial, behavioural, external datasets) to enhance pricing accuracy and risk differentiation.
- Drive model governance, transparency, documentation, and ethical data‑use standards.
- Collaborate cross‑functionally to deliver high‑impact analytical and pricing solutions across multiple business units.
- Partner with enterprise‑wide analytics teams to align modelling practices and adopt leading techniques and toolsets.
- Mentor and support junior analysts and actuarial students.
Job Experience and Skills Required:
Education:
- Nearly qualified actuary with 10+ actuarial exams completed.
- Membership with a recognised actuarial association (e.g. ASSA or IFoA).
Experience:
- 5+ years actuarial or data science experience in short‑term insurance pricing, risk, or analytics.
- Proven hands‑on modelling experience within a live insurance environment – essential.
- Experience building pricing models from first principles, including GLMs, decision trees, ensemble methods, gradient boosting, XGBoost, etc.
- Ability to demonstrate measurable commercial impact from deployed models.
Technical Skills:
- Strong proficiency in Python, R, SQL, Power BI, and actuarial tools such as Emblem, Radar, and ResQ.
- Machine Learning: libraries such as pandas, scikit‑learn, XGBoost (please specify experience).
- Understanding of automation, deployment, and model lifecycle management.
- Earnix experience advantageous.
- Exposure to SAM or IFRS 17 beneficial.
Soft Skills / Commercial Competencies:
- Ability to translate complex quantitative outputs into business‑ready insights.
- Strong communication and stakeholder‑influencing ability.
- Analytical thinking, problem‑solving, and commercial awareness.
- Experience mentoring or coaching junior staff.
For more exciting Finance vacancies, please visit:
https://www.networkrecruitmentinternational.com
I also specialise in recruiting in the following:
- Actuarial roles (Life, Short-Term, Health, Pensions, Quantitative)
- Data Scientists / Data Analysts (Python, R, SQL, Machine Learning)
- Risk Analysts (Credit, Market, Model Risk, Operational)
- Pricing Specialists (Insurance, Financial Products)
- Machine Learning & AI Data Scientists (ML Ops, NLP, Predictive Modelling)
- Quantitative Specialists across Banking, Insurance, and FinTech
If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles / positions.
For more information, contact:
Heidi Joubert
Specialist Recruitment Consultant
Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heidi-joubert-1877a236/
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