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Senior Actuary, Pricing

NobleOak People & Culture System
Full-time
On-site
Sydney, Australia
Mathematics & Finance
Introduction

About NobleOak:

We’re a challenger brand, with a strong culture and a long history. We’re values driven, successful, fast growing, and have lots of future opportunities. We’re an award-winning, high performing business who invest in our people.

At NobleOak, you’ll be more than just an employee.

Join a close-knit group of motivated and passionate people. We work as one team, support each other and do the right thing by our customers, with nobility at the core of our culture. You will feel truly valued here at NobleOak. We provide regular recognition, the opportunity to develop, and a fun atmosphere where we celebrate our wins together. If this sounds like the workplace and role for you, apply now! 

For more information, please visit: https://www.nobleoak.com.au/about-us/working-at-nobleoak/



Description

About the role:

The Senior Actuary – Pricing will be a key role in the NobleOak actuarial team. This role will have critical involvement in the development and implementation of actuarial disciplines in a fast-growing team, with a particular focus on developing and maintaining pricing strategies, models, and frameworks to ensure the profitability and sustainability of NobleOak’s products. This role will be responsible for the delivery of quality actuarial insights to support product development, risk assessment and strategic decision making whilst ensuring regulatory compliance. The Senior Actuary will work closely with the Head of Actuarial, other Senior Actuaries, CFO and Finance Team, and the Product & Insurance team, ensuring that best estimate assumptions and future projections support strategic and operational planning.

Key Accountabilities

  • Pricing Strategy and Delivery:
    • Drive development of pricing and product strategies.
    • Oversee and conduct ongoing reviews of product and pricing of all products to ensure market competitiveness and target profitability are achieved, regulatory requirements are met, and always prioritising member interests.
    • Reviewing and approving product pricing and product development.
  • Modelling:
    • Build, maintain, and monitor pricing models (as required), ensuring documentation of modelling results and changes are kept up to date.
    • Conduct other financial modelling (e.g. Embedded Value) work as required.
  • Product Development & Enhancement:
    • Provide actuarial insights into product development, modifications, and pricing initiatives to ensure NobleOak’s competitive placement in the market.
    • Provide recommendations to senior stakeholders to optimise product profitability, customer value, and sustainable business growth. 
  • Data Management, Processing and Validation:
    • Support the management and validation of policy and claims data to support its accuracy and integrity.
  • Risk Assessment and Mitigation:
    • Support the actuarial function in assessing and mitigating insurance and financial risks associated with NobleOak’s products, identifying actuarial risk and compliance issues and reporting relevant matters.
  • Regulatory & Compliance Oversight:
    • Drive governance and actuarial advice for product and pricing, with a strong focus on ensuring members interests are forefront.
    • Ensure all pricing models that are efficiently and compliantly in-housed.
  • Stakeholder Engagement:
    • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including products, underwriting, claims, finance, and data. Contributing in key projects and forums where actuarial input is required.
    • Collaborate closely with NobleOak’s reinsurers and partners, assisting with negotiations and other reinsurance liaison as required.

Key Responsibilities

  • Pricing – responsible for the quality and accuracy of NobleOak’s pricing processes.
  • Leadership – Lead by example, displaying clear accountability for results. Build on a team culture of collaboration, engagement and high performance across the actuarial team, providing direction to individuals on development strategies and proactively addressing areas of underperformance. Manage and drive positive team meetings, ensuring regular effective two way communication with the team. 
  • High quality and accurate communication – Communication with internal and external stakeholders, monitoring information and providing support across the Product, Actuarial and Finance teams when required.
  • Process improvement – Contribute to drive process improvement and automation in the Actuarial department.
  • Quality control – Operate as an important quality controller for the business, ensuring all product project processes are delivered in a timely manner ensuring continued high satisfaction rates. 
  • Delivery focus – Understanding and striving to meet or exceed all metrics and KPIs while providing excellent consistent customer service.
  • Culture champion – Like all NobleOak roles, this role must be a strong ambassador and champion of the NobleOak high-performance culture and brand values. Always displaying positivity, energy and integrity, taking responsibility for actions and building on a positive and engaging diverse team dynamic.


Skills And Experiences

About you:

Capabilities

  • Willing to roll your sleeves up, you’re able to develop and execute your own strategies and understand the target audience and what messages are relevant and purposeful.  
  • You showcase the confidence, capability and prioritising skills to navigate competing demands. 
  • You thrive in fast paced environment and deal with ambiguity, effectively managing the often changing priorities.  
  • You couple a 'can do' attitude with a positive, friendly demeanour. You have a growth mindset and are emotionally intelligent.
  • Expert understanding of life insurance actuarial and pricing concepts.
  • Strong understanding of Australian Life insurance industry and market, including competitors’ products in the direct life insurance market.
  • Good understanding of the legal and compliance environment of the Australian Life insurance industry.
  • Strong numerical skills and experience with Excel and actuarial modelling tools.
  • Strong ability to interpret and analyse relevant data to diagnose issues, trends, and emerging problems.
  • Good problem-solving capabilities, including lateral thinking, to provide advice and recommended solutions to the issues raised. Ability to present proposals and solutions at a strategic level. 
  • Good communication skills, both written and verbal with demonstrated management skills and interpersonal skills. 
  • Positive, team-focused and self-motivated.

Experience & Qualifications

  • 10+ years’ experience in retail life insurance and corporate actuarial roles, ideally with 5+ in pricing specific roles. 
  • Fellow/Associate of the Institute of Actuaries Australia, or equivalent overseas association. 
  • Strong experience in and knowledge of retail life insurance, ideally within the Australian marketplace.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills and experience working with senior stakeholders.
  • Strong understanding of the principles of life insurance from first principles and inclination to get involved in commercial decision-making process.