AddressPricing Analyst, Australia
Job Description
The Role
Pacific Life Re is looking for a Pricing Analyst to join their Protection Pricing team in Sydney, Australia.
The Pricing Analyst will support pricing risk business across group and retail products, using their strong technical skills to help deliver sustainable competitive advantage and market leading insights for our internal and external clients.
You will work closely with others in the Protection Pricing team in Australia to ensure that quotes meet profit targets and comply with pricing and risk management standards and that appropriate processes and documentation is in place. The day-to-day work will include:
- Contributing towards timely and accurate delivery of pricing terms to clients ensuring high technical standards of experience analyses and the drafting of high-quality pricing papers
- Identifying, collating, and interpreting data from all relevant sources to validate and refining the pricing bases and methodologies and developing robust pricing models
- Working closely with other functions within the business unit including Client Solutions, R&D, Corporate Actuarial, and Claims, driving improvements in insurance risk management to improve profitability and competitive positioning
- Continuously improving pricing process, pricing model and operational efficiency to provide market best practice insight, reduce operational risk and improve automation
You'll be working in a company that values your technical skills, the innovative ideas and solutions you bring into the work you do, and your ability to communicate those ideas effectively. You'll also have the opportunity to work on all of Pacific Life Re Australia's protection product lines: mortality, TPD, income protection, and trauma within both the group and retail markets.
Qualifications & Experience
- Recent completion of a degree in a relevant subject area: actuarial studies, mathematics, statistics
- Currently working towards attaining fellowship status with a recognised actuarial institute (e.g. working on completing your Part I and Part II exams, or commencing Part III exams)
- Strong analytical skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with Microsoft Excel/VBA, SQL, Tableau, R, Python, and actuarial modelling software is desirable
Working For Pacific Life Re
Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.
Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.
Benefits
• Group Income Protection
• Gym Membership
• Employee Assistance Program (Access EAP)
• Dexus Community and Wellspace Initiatives
• Australian Super
• Fortnightly Massages
As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.
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