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A leading international insurer and reinsurer is seeking a Senior Pricing Actuary to join its growing actuarial pricing team. This opportunity would suit an experienced London Market pricing actuary looking for a highly commercial position with direct exposure to underwriting decision-making, portfolio analytics and pricing strategy. The role offers exposure across both insurance and reinsurance portfolios, providing a level of breadth that is increasingly difficult to find within the current market. Working closely with underwriting teams, you will provide actuarial insight on individual accounts, support portfolio management initiatives and help drive pricing sophistication across the business. The position combines case pricing, portfolio analysis, pricing tool development and stakeholder engagement, making it an excellent opportunity for someone seeking a broad commercial actuarial role.  Key Responsibilities Provide pricing support on individual insurance and reinsurance accounts. Deliver actuarial insight to support underwriting decision-making. Conduct portfolio reviews and pricing adequacy analyses. Develop and enhance pricing methodologies and assumptions. Build and maintain pricing tools used across underwriting teams. Partner with reserving, capital modelling and risk management teams. Support business planning and strategic initiatives. Contribute to the development of junior actuarial colleagues. Drive pricing process improvements and innovation. [Senior Pri...ofile 2025 | PDF] Requirements Qualified Actuary (IFoA or equivalent). Significant general insurance pricing experience. London Market, Specialty Insurance background. Experience supporting underwriters directly. Strong portfolio analytics and technical pricing skills. Excellent stakeholder management capabilities. Advanced Excel skills. Python highly desirable. HX platform experience highly advantageous.

A leading global insurance business is seeking an experienced Reserving Actuary to join its London actuarial leadership team with succession to a Head of role in the short-medium term.  This is an excellent opportunity for an established Reserving Manager or Senior Reserving Actuary looking to take on broader responsibility, gain greater exposure to senior stakeholders and play a key role in shaping reserving strategy across a complex London Market portfolio. Reporting to the Head of Reserving, you will oversee the reserving process across multiple classes of business whilst acting as a key partner to underwriting, claims, finance and risk teams. The role combines technical reserving expertise with leadership, stakeholder engagement and strategic input into business planning and portfolio management. You'll have responsibility for driving reserving best practice, leading reserving investigations and supporting critical business decisions through high-quality actuarial insight.  Key Responsibilities Lead and oversee the quarterly reserving process. Review reserve adequacy and provide recommendations to senior management. Support UK GAAP, Solvency UK and IFRS 17 reserving requirements. Present reserving outcomes and key insights to senior committees. Lead reserving input into planning and forecasting exercises. Deliver reserve reviews, deep dives and strategic projects. Partner with underwriting and claims teams on portfolio performance. Manage and develop members of the reserving team. Drive process improvement, automation and reserving innovation. Candidate Requirements Qualified Actuary (or equivalent experience). Extensive London Market reserving experience. Strong understanding of UK GAAP, Solvency UK and IFRS 17. Previous team leadership or people management experience. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Strong commercial mindset and actuarial judgement. Knowledge of Python, R or SQL beneficial

A leading specialty insurer and reinsurer is seeking an experienced Capital Modelling Actuary to take ownership of key economic capital models and play a pivotal role in the continued development of the firm's capital framework. This is a newly created leadership opportunity sitting within a well-regarded capital function, offering significant exposure to senior stakeholders and the opportunity to directly influence business strategy. You will be responsible for the end-to-end ownership, enhancement and embedding of economic capital models across multiple insurance and reinsurance entities. Unlike many capital roles, this position is focused more on economic capital and business decision-making, rather than Lloyd's regulatory capital reporting. A key focus will be ensuring model outputs are embedded across the business and actively used within strategic planning, underwriting, capital allocation and risk management decisions. Key Responsibilities Lead the development, maintenance and enhancement of economic capital models Own model parameterisation, calibration and reporting processes Drive model use and business embedding initiatives Deliver insights to executive stakeholders and committees Support business planning, capital allocation and strategic decision-making Lead model development projects and methodology improvements Manage and develop junior actuarial team members Work closely with underwriting, exposure management, reserving and risk teams Requirements Qualified Actuary (IFoA or equivalent) Extensive capital modelling experience within general insurance Strong understanding of economic capital frameworks Proven experience embedding model outputs into business decision-making Previous people management experience Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills Igloo experience highly advantageous