Actuarial Analyst - Performance

I'm partnering with an established organisation within the London insurance market to recruit a Senior Operational Resilience Analyst, specialising in Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Operational Resilience Testing. This is an opportunity to take ownership of the BCM lifecycle and play a key role in shaping and delivering an integrated, multi-year resilience testing programme across its own operations and wider insurance business. The position will focus on ensuring Important Business Services (IBSs) can withstand and recover from severe-but-plausible disruption within approved impact tolerances. You'll bring together business continuity, crisis preparedness, resilience testing, technology recovery and third-party dependencies, working closely with Business Operations, Technology and external stakeholders to strengthen overall business resilience. Key responsibilities *Business Continuity & Operational Resilience* - Own the Business Continuity Management (BCM) lifecycle, including coordinating Business Impact Analyses (BIAs), maintaining continuity plans, crisis management procedures and recovery runbooks. - Align recovery priorities and dependencies with Important Business Services (IBSs) and approved impact tolerances. - Ensure resilience plans and supporting documentation remain current, appropriately validated and aligned with business changes. *Resilience Testing & Scenario Design* - Develop, secure approval for and maintain an integrated multi-year resilience testing strategy and annual delivery programme. - Design and lead severe-but-plausible scenarios, building increasingly sophisticated simulations and exercises. - Coordinate and facilitate end-to-end exercises involving business operations, technology teams and external partners. - Test crisis activation, escalation, decision-making, business workarounds, recovery processes, data integrity and internal/external communications. - Coordinate participation in Lloyd's and wider insurance market exercises. *Technology & Third-Party Resilience* - Integrate business continuity testing with IT Disaster Recovery and Cyber Response arrangements. - Assess dependencies on technology services, critical suppliers and material outsourcing arrangements. - Coordinate the business continuity elements of risk-based supplier and outsourcing exercises. - Work alongside IT teams to incorporate technical recovery assurance, supplier testing findings and recovery evidence into wider resilience assessments. *Continuous Improvement & Recovery Assurance* - Assess exercise outcomes against approved impact tolerances, identifying vulnerabilities and gaps in demonstrated recovery capability. - Lead post-exercise and relevant incident reviews, capturing lessons learned and agreeing improvement actions. - Track remediation, challenge overdue actions and coordinate retesting to validate improvements. - Maintain robust testing evidence and report outcomes, limitations and recovery capabilities to relevant stakeholders. What we're looking for - Demonstrable experience owning or delivering Business Continuity Management and Operational Resilience programmes within a regulated financial services environment. - Practical experience designing and facilitating resilience testing, including severe-but-plausible scenarios and increasingly sophisticated exercises. - Strong understanding of Business Impact Analysis, continuity planning, recovery strategies and Important Business Services. - Experience in crisis and major incident management, including escalation, response, communications and recovery arrangements. - Understanding of technology disaster recovery, cyber response and third-party dependencies. - Experience assessing testing outcomes, identifying vulnerabilities, managing remediation and validating improvements through retesting. - Knowledge of UK operational resilience requirements and relevant PRA and FCA frameworks. *Desirable:* - Experience within the Lloyd's market, managing agents, syndicates or wider insurance environment. - Familiarity with Lloyd's central services, shared dependencies and market-wide resilience exercises. - Experience with material outsourcing and third-party resilience testing. - Relevant professional qualifications such as CBCI or equivalent. Who might this suit? Senior Operational Resilience Analysts, Business Continuity Managers, Senior BCM Analysts, Resilience Testing Leads and Technology Resilience professionals looking to take greater ownership of a business-wide resilience testing programme. A relevant opportunity for someone who enjoys combining business continuity, crisis preparedness, technology recovery and practical resilience testing within a complex insurance environment. Interested in finding out more? If you have experience across Operational Resilience, BCM or resilience testing and would like to explore the opportunity, I'd be keen to have a confidential conversation. Please get in touch directly or message me for further details. #OperationalResilience #BusinessContinuity #BCM #ResilienceTesting #TechnologyResilience #Insurance #LondonMarket

Liability / Casualty Loss Adjuster | North West | Remote An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Liability or Casualty Claims professional to join a growing and highly respected loss adjusting organisation. This role offers the chance to work within a supportive and collaborative team environment, handling a varied portfolio of casualty claims while enjoying the flexibility of a predominantly home-based position. Covering the North West region, you will manage your own diary and workload, undertaking site visits as required while maintaining the flexibility of remote working. The position would suit an existing Liability or Casualty Loss Adjuster, or a claims professional with strong EL/PL experience who is looking to transition into a field-based adjusting role. Responsibilities will include investigating liability claims, gathering evidence, interviewing relevant parties, assessing policy coverage and legal liability, preparing reports for insurers, maintaining accurate reserves, negotiating settlements within authority limits, and progressing claims through to conclusion in a timely and professional manner. You will build strong relationships with insurers, brokers, policyholders and other stakeholders, ensuring excellent levels of client service throughout the claims lifecycle. The successful individual will be highly organised, self-motivated and comfortable working autonomously, with the ability to balance desk-based claim management alongside field investigations. Strong communication skills and a desire to continue developing technically within casualty claims are essential. In return, you will benefit from a genuinely flexible and supportive working environment, ongoing professional development and qualification support, excellent career progression opportunities, enhanced employee benefits, generous annual leave, pension contributions, wellbeing programmes and access to a wide range of employee discounts and lifestyle benefits. This is an excellent opportunity for someone seeking greater autonomy, flexibility and long-term career development within the casualty and liability loss adjusting market.

We have partnered with a market leading Lloyd's player to find them a Head of Analytics. This is a great opportunity to put your own stamp on a role while adding huge strategic value working with market leaders on a daily basis. The successful person can come from any non-life actuarial background and the role includes: - Work closely with the Chief Actuary and Executive team to drive strategic projects and enhance the analytical framework of the organisation with the support of a small team. - Focus on data and analytics to improve actuarial capabilities through feedback loops. - Close ties with the whole actuarial function and underwriting. - Develop key performance indicators and provide key analysis to leadership. - Strategic business planning, outwards RI analysis and overall data strategy improvement for the business. - Opportunities to assist with reserving, capital and pricing but no prior experience needed. £150,000 - £160,000 base with a strong bonus. This is a great opportunity to be lead a cutting edge actuarial function and be involved with huge value add projects alongside an impressive exec team and strong chief actuary.