Actuarial Expert

Key Responsibilities

The Senior Actuary will lead the Actuarial department, ensuring that appropriate methodologies are used for computing technical reserves and providing independent opinions on key technical topics and processes.

Key responsibilities include:

• 
  
  
• Guaranteeing that appropriate methodologies are used for computing technical reserves
  
  
• Ensuring the quality of data used to compute technical reserves
  
  
• Providing an independent opinion on the level of technical reserves, as compared to best estimates
  
  
• Providing an independent opinion on key underwriting topics
  
  
• Providing an opinion on reinsurance policy and reinsurance processes
  
  

Dimensions of Roles

The Actuarial Function Holder will have numerous regular interactions with various stakeholders, including:

• 
  
  
• Chief Finance Officer and Finance teams (IPA finance team, reserving center of excellence): opinion on reserves
  
  
• Head of Technical Excellence and Technical Excellence teams: opinion on technical processes (underwriting & reinsurance)
  
  

Additionally, the Actuarial Function Holder will:

• 
  
  
• Provide independent opinions on all key technical topics to the IPA SA Executive Committee and Board of Directors
  
  
• Guarantee to the IPA SA management and to the Board of Directors that appropriate methodologies are used for computing technical reserves
  
  
• Ensure compliance with Banque Nationale of Belgium and AXA Group actuarial guidelines, compliance requirements, and internal audit follow-up in relation to underwriting, reserving, data usage (GDPR), and profitability metrics
  
  

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have:

• 
  
  
• Qualified actuary or similar education profile with demonstrated significant insurance technical experience in the insurance industry (10+ years): knowledge of reserving, pricing, valuation, and Solvency 2 metrics
  
  
• Proven leadership
  
  
• Knowledge of insurance (ideally assistance) products and markets
  
  
• Knowledge of actuarial, macro-economic, financial, and risk-management matters
  
  
• Understanding of coding skills in R & VBA, SAS/WPS, and Python (appreciated)
  
  

Language

Fluent English is mandatory.

About AXA

AXA Group is the world leader in insurance and asset management. We protect and advise our clients at every step in their lives, by offering products and services that satisfy their needs in the areas of insurance, personal protection, saving, and asset management. AXA is the leading insurance brand worldwide, with over 100 million clients. We are transforming from payer to partner for our client, with a strong focus on risk prevention.

Our Mission

Empower people to live a better life.

Our Values

Customer First, Courage, Integrity, and One AXA.

About the Entity

AXA Partners is an AXA transversal business unit offering a wide range of solutions in assistance services, travel insurance, and credit protection. Combining passion with advanced expertise, we design and deliver worldwide solutions for partners and communities. We protect what matters, when it matters.

What We Offer

By joining AXA Partners, you will work in a responsible company, which offers a real culture of expertise and diversity. Our focus is on accelerating the development of everyone's skills, whilst offering attractive and competitive compensation and opportunities for professional development and growth. At AXA, we work to make a real difference to people - when amazing things happen and when we create opportunities for a better life, the feeling of pride is extraordinary. Join a company that helps protect the forests. At AXA Partners, we plant a tree for every new recruit (with a permanent contract).

Essential Skills and Experience

The successful candidate will have:

• 
  
  
• Fluent English
  
  
• Pedagogical skills to coach and develop skills of actuarial analysts
  
  
• Excellent planning skills and strong sense of analysis and synthesis
  
  
• Independent mind to express and sustain an opinion on technical strategic topics in front of Executive audiences
  
  
• Ability to collaborate and communicate to different technical and non-technical stakeholders and present materials to senior and top management
  
  
• Ability to challenge traditional technical schemes and accompany the transformation
  
  
• Ability to receive and to provide feedbacks from and to the co-workers
  
  
• Effective relationship builder at all levels
  
  

Language Code

en