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About the Role

You'll be at the forefront of our corporate actuarial activity, guiding business planning, performance monitoring, and strategic decision-making across Ki’s underwriting portfolio. You will provide high-quality actuarial insight and forward-looking analysis to enhance portfolio performance and sharpen risk management. You will connect actuarial, underwriting, risk, and finance teams to ensure consistent and well-informed decisions. You will lead the development of innovative tools and frameworks for portfolio optimisation and business planning, and contribute to continuous improvement of Ki’s actuarial capabilities, systems, and processes.

Responsibilities

Lead the development, validation, and ongoing monitoring of business plans and portfolio performance, including setting and challenging key actuarial assumptions and ensuring alignment with reserving and risk views.
Partner with Portfolio Management, Underwriting, Claims and Finance to provide clear, actionable insight on portfolio profitability, performance drivers, and strategic direction.
Drive enhanced performance management through high-quality analysis, targeted reporting, and effective communication of insights, incorporating reserving outputs, market developments, and forward-looking indicators.
Deliver deep-dive and forward-looking analysis to understand and improve performance, including macroeconomic factors and emerging risks, supporting underwriting and portfolio optimisation decisions.
Collaborate across actuarial, risk, and algorithmic underwriting teams to strengthen analytics, tools, and data-driven capabilities, including development of new techniques and approaches to improve underwriting performance.
Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships, providing effective challenge and influence at senior levels to support robust and commercially sound decision-making.
Lead the development and continuous improvement of actuarial tools, frameworks, and processes, including areas such as inflation assumptions, benchmarking, and performance monitoring capabilities.
Ensure robust governance, documentation, audit trails, and compliance with actuarial, regulatory, and internal standards across all areas of responsibility.
Support the ongoing development of actuarial systems, data, and analytics capabilities, ensuring data quality and fitness for purpose.
Contribute to the wider actuarial function through collaboration, innovation, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Maintain a strong understanding of the end-to-end business and proactively apply emerging trends, techniques, and insights to enhance actuarial output and business impact.
Represent actuarial in relevant governance forums, providing insight, challenge, and informed judgement.
Lead, develop, and effectively manage direct reports, ensuring high-quality delivery, appropriate prioritisation, and individual development.

Requirements

Qualified Actuary (FIA, FFA or equivalent) with strong general insurance market experience, ideally within Lloyd’s or company markets.
Strong understanding of actuarial disciplines including pricing, reserving, and business planning, and how these interact across a portfolio.
Experience leading and developing teams, with the ability to prioritise work and manage competing demands.
Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate complex actuarial outputs into clear business insights.
Strong understanding of actuarial governance, regulatory requirements, and professional standards.

Skills

Advanced analytical and technical skills
Proficiency in Excel
Experience with programming languages such as Python, R, or SQL
Strong communication skills
Stakeholder management skills
Ability to influence senior stakeholders effectively
Innovative mindset
Ability to identify opportunities for improvement and implement change

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Qualified Actuary (FIA, FFA or equivalent)

Salary/Compensations

Highly competitive remuneration and benefits package

Benefits

Highly competitive remuneration and benefits package
Package is kept under constant review to ensure relevance
Acknowledgement and reward for extraordinary effort

About the Company

Ki is the biggest global algorithmic insurance carrier and the fastest growing syndicate in the Lloyd's of London market.
Ki is the first ever syndicate to make $100m in profit in 3 years.
Ki uses algorithms, machine learning, and large language models to provide insurance brokers with quotes in seconds.
Ki works with Google and UCL.
Ki's teams have varied backgrounds and work together in an agile, cross-functional way.
Ki has big ambitions and seeks excellent minds to challenge the status-quo.