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About the role:

The role of the In-House Valuation Infrastructure team is to ensure maintenance of Overlay platform and other Global Life Reserving Valuation Models. The candidate will be responsible for testing the developments implemented by IT on the Overlay platform, for the SII / MGAAP module (which includes SII, VIF, BMA, and local reporting).

This includes:

• Understanding business requirements,
• Defining appropriate test cases,
• Performing tests (in particular, the candidate will be the QA tester for the SII / MGAAP module),
• Collaborating with IT to fix bugs as required,
• Maintaining the replicator and testing tools,
• Performing regression tests,
• Supporting business testing.

The candidate will participate in other team activities as required, for instance:

• Supporting testing of other Overlay modules (Accruals, LDTI, IFRS 17)
• Gathering of requirements and writing specifications
• Development and maintenance of other global actuarial systems, models and tools
• Modernizing, extending and harmonizing the aggregation and consolidation tools across the different processes and geographies, by limiting as much as possible the use of Excel and manual retreatments
• Enhancing the visualization and analysis capability for use in the validation of results, production of management reporting metrics and implementation of controls
• Acting in a research and development capacity to generate new ideas for affecting process, methodology and reporting efficiencies
• Working closely with the IT and life actuarial teams, Operations, Finance, external consultants and vendors to implement changes to the modelling architecture

Qualifications:

Technical Skills

• Experience in specification, development and more particularly testing of actuarial and data transformation software
• Strong IT and data management skills
• Knowledge in relevant software: SQL/VBA/PowerBI/Power Query/Business Objects/Data Virtuality/Snowflake/R
• Python/Moody’s/AXIS/Risk Integrity/C++ (lower priority)
• Reinsurance knowledge is an asset
• Strongly driven to streamline business processes, with an emphasis on automation and maintainability 

Soft Skills

• Organized and able to work in a matrix structure environment
• Strong communication skills and proficiency in English
• High motivation and team-orientation
• Keen to work with other cultures

Work Experience

• 5 years working experience in Life reserving or pricing in the (re)insurance field, or related actuarial experience with solid systems development, testing or programming background and exposure to financial transformation projects.
• Prior experience of financial reporting with respect to regulatory reporting regimes including SII, BMA, MAS, VIF would be a distinct advantage.

Education

• Qualified Actuary or experienced professional with university degree in relevant field (Actuarial, Statistics, IT, Engineering)

Additional Information

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Thank you,

PartnerRe Hiring Team