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About the Role
The Reserving Actuary is responsible for supporting the delivery and continuous development of the reserving function for Markel International, providing technical expertise, leadership and insight to ensure robust reserving, financial reporting and risk management outcomes across the business.
Responsibilities
- Meaningful contribution to the efficient running of the reserving function for Markel International.
- Assisting in coordinating the activities of the wider department to ensure all reserving and financial reporting activities are carried out on time and to a high standard.
- Developing the technical approaches for reserving within International and working with the global actuarial operations team and global head of reserving to help develop new tools and techniques and suggesting new methods of operation within International and also globally.
- Maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders within the wider reserving and reporting universe.
- Lead reserving team members and provide wider coaching and training to the broader actuarial team.
- Provide support to the wider Markel International Actuarial team, and get involved in global actuarial projects as appropriate.
Requirements
- Bring reserving expertise into the International actuarial team.
- Helping the team respond to complex reserving issues and provide guidance and bespoke tooling to enable the reserves to be set appropriately.
- Possess the skills to manage and engage the wider actuarial team to ensure reserving and parameterisation exercises are completed on time and to a high quality.
- Identify and implement improvements to process and governance around the reserving function and required deliverables.
- Effectively work within and influence a team, including prioritising your and the team’s workloads to meet and handle internal and external deadlines.
- Be a recognised guide in the application of reserving methods, techniques and requirements.
- Keep up to date with emerging trends, tools and techniques within the wider external market.
- Be present in the London office at least two days a week.
Skills
- Reserving expertise
- Technical expertise
- Leadership
- Insight
- Financial reporting
- Risk management
- Coaching
- Training
- Process improvement
- Governance
- Teamwork
- Prioritization
- Deadline management
Location
- London
- Remote
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Great starting salary plus annual bonus
Benefits
- 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
- Fantastic company pension scheme
- Private medical cover
- Private dental cover
- Life assurance
- Travel insurance cover
- Income protection
- Season ticket loan
- Opportunities to learn new skills
- Career development support
About the Company
- Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations around the world.
- We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further
Equal Opportunity
- Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances.
- We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful.