Remote

Charlotte NC

Leawood KS

Canberra

Graduate

Part Qualified

Associate

Qualified

Senior Actuary

Life

Investments

Health

Reinsurance

Risk

Python

Data Science

Experience Analysis

Pricing

Machine Learning

Valuation

Longevity

Excel

Tableau

SCOR is a global reinsurance company based in France. Established in 1970, it offers risk transfer and risk management solutions to insurers and other clients worldwide. With a diverse range of reinsurance products and services, SCOR operates in various sectors, including life, property, casualty, and specialty lines, serving as a strategic partner for managing risk.

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Job Summary<ul><li>This role will support senior actuaries in delivering activities aligned to SCOR Group Life Australia (SGLA) strategic initiatives.</li><li>This will provide actuarial graduates progressing with their exams with work assignments and projects that are challenging, educational, and promote personal and professional development.</li><li>This provides an opportunity for the successful candidate to enhance their technical and analytical skills within a local and global context.</li></ul>Responsibilities<ul><li>Under direct supervision, conduct analyses that adhere to actuarial standards of practice: select appropriate data sources and methods, make assumptions, recognize considerations, and develop recommendations.</li><li>Become familiar with data sources and requirements; play a role in ensuring bordereaux data is understood, standardized, and available for insights; retrieve and manipulate data.</li><li>Analyse data on premiums and claims to support the experience analysis actuary.</li><li>Develop knowledge of actuarial methodologies by assisting in the creation/revision of actuarial models and tools for automation, including the use of new techniques that use data science methodologies.</li><li>Assist senior actuaries in activities across pricing, valuation, data analytics, and marketing.</li><li>Assist in conducting research.</li><li>Other ad hoc tasks.</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>At least 1 year of prior actuarial work (while progressing exams) is preferred.</li><li>Strong ability to use Python and SQL.</li><li>Knowledge of advanced mathematics and statistical concepts.</li><li>Effective verbal and written communication, time management, and organization skills.</li><li>Ability to comprehend actuarial concepts and other advanced statistical concepts.</li><li>Ability to think logically and perform accurate calculations in a timely manner.</li><li>Ability to use a personal computer and Microsoft Office (including PowerPoint and Visual Basic).</li><li>Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking ability.</li><li>Team player.</li><li>Culturally flexible and sensitive.</li></ul>About UsAs a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk.Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.As an international company, our common culture is defined by “The SCOR Way.” Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values: we care about clients, people, and societies; we perform with integrity; we act with courage; we encourage open minds; and we thrive through collaboration.SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.

Job DescriptionThe position provides actuarial support in analysis of client-provided and internal mortality and lapse experience, as well as industry experience studies, population trends and relevant third party experience data. This analysis will be used to develop assumptions and to provide insights and key findings about SCOR’s claims and persistency to the organization. This role will support the broader organization including Pricing, Finance and the wider Inforce team, in addition to other areas throughout the organization including Sales, as needed.This position will play a key role in managing the experience analysis component of our new business RFP process.This position will also be expected to support SCOR’s thought leadership through research content for industry publications and meetings.Responsibilities<ul><li>Analyze emerging mortality, persistency, and other experience required to meet organizational needs.</li><li>Analyze product, underwriting, or other company information for any influences on mortality and lapses from a historical or prospective perspective.</li><li>Work across the organization to understand drivers of the experience and enhance analytical capabilities, including enhancing the use of predictive analytics, data science, or other statistical analysis.</li><li>Maintain or develop tools to support the periodic monitoring and tracking of relevant industry and population data</li><li>Support the development of best estimate assumptions by providing analysis, insights, and recommendations around the assumptions, their development process, and documenting justification for the updates and any judgment used in the assumption development.</li><li>Support new business activities through management of the experience analysis component of our RFP process</li><li>Monitor and support improvement of the tools and processes used for studies and analysis.</li><li>Support sales team activities by providing analysis of client experience for presentation during sales calls.</li><li>Support the production of internal experience studies, as needed.</li><li>Communicate results of studies to internal stakeholders as well as potentially to clients and prospective clients.</li><li>Advance SCOR’s recognition among the actuarial community by providing leading edge analysis of industry studies or SCOR’s mortality insight study and providing written and verbal presentations to clients and the industry about key findings.</li><li>Actively participate in SCOR’s global knowledge team</li><li>Provide mentorship and coaching to actuarial students</li><li>Provide input on other projects and issues as needed, including interactions with Group and senior management.</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Analytics, Finance, Economics, or related area</li><li>Fellowship in the Society of Actuaries with current CPD compliance preferred; Career ASAs considered</li><li>At least 5 years of actuarial experience involving individual life insurance. Preferred areas of experience are mortality and lapse studies, or pricing (with reinsurance experience preferred).</li><li>Strong written and oral communication skills.</li><li>The ability to work independently as well as in a group setting with readiness to travel on occasion</li><li>Experience working with database software, such as SQL or MS Access</li><li>Experience working with large datasets and data visualition tools (e.g. Tableau)</li><li>Experience with R and/or Python is desired but not required</li><li>Experience in presenting or writing research papers or other industry participation is a plus</li><li>Strong skills in MS Office</li><li>Regular attendance and ability to work extended hours as necessary to meet deadlines</li></ul>About usAs a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying “The Art &amp; Science of Risk,” SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.As an international company, our common culture is defined by “The SCOR Way.” Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.

As a leader on the Experience Analysis team, there will be ample opportunities to coach and mentor staff, collaborate across the company in areas related to our experience and analysis, integrating internal and external sources of information to develop a holistic understanding and narative of SCOR’s experience, and potentially representing SCOR to its clients.In addition, this position is expected to lead change and improvement by bringing new ideas and being open to working with a variety of people in a dynamic work environment. This position will also be expected to represent the Company’s viewpoint in industry publications and meetings.The role will also manage the experience analysis component of our RFP process.Responsibilities<ul><li>Manage a team of actuaries/actuarial students.</li><li>Analyze emerging mortality, persistency, and other experience required to meet organizational needs.</li><li>Analyze product, underwriting, or other company or external information for any influences on mortality and lapses from a historical or prospective perspective.</li><li>Work across the organization to understand the drivers of experience and develop SCOR’s experience view.</li><li>Monitor, support and improve of the tools and process used for studies.</li><li>Support the development of best estimate assumptions by providing analysis, insights, and recommendations around the assumptions, their development process, and documenting justification for the updates and any judgment used in the assumption development.</li><li>Support sales and pricing team activities by providing analysis of client experience.</li><li>Lead communication of results of studies to internal stakeholders as well as potentially to clients and prospective clients.</li><li>Advance the Company’s recognition among the actuarial community by providing leading edge analysis of industry studies or SCOR’s Mortality Insight study and providing written and verbal presentations to clients and the industry about key findings.</li><li>Provide input on other projects and issues as needed, including interactions with Group and senior management.</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Analytics, Finance, Economics, or related area</li><li>Fellowship in the Society of Actuaries with current CPD compliance preferred; Career ASAs considered</li><li>At least 10 years of actuarial experience involving individual life insurance. Preferred areas of experience are mortality and lapse studies, or pricing (with reinsurance experience preferred).</li><li>Strong written and oral communication skills.</li><li>The ability to work independently as well as in a group setting with readiness to travel on occasion</li><li>Skilled at collaborating with others across offices and geographical locations.</li><li>Experienced at working with large datasets and database software, such as SQL.</li><li>Experience with R and/or Python, as well as Tableau, is desired but not required</li></ul>About usSCOR, the 4th largest reinsurer in the world, provides insurance companies with a diversified and innovative range of solutions and services to control and manage risk. Leveraging experience and expertise to deliver “The Art &amp; Science of Risk”, SCOR provides cutting-edge financial solutions, analytics tools and services in all areas related to risk – from Life &amp; Health and Property &amp; Casualty insurance to Investments. Our specialized teams operate in over 160 countries, fostering long-term relationships with clients.In order to provide our clients with a broad range of innovative reinsurance solutions, SCOR pursues an underwriting policy that is founded on profitability and supported by effective risk management strategy and a prudent investment policy. This approach allows us to offer clients an optimum level of security, to create value for shareholders, and to contribute to the welfare and resilience of society by helping to protect insureds against the risks they face.At SCOR, we believe that employing people from different backgrounds and ensuring inclusivity is a major driving force for the success of the Group. We are committed to fostering a work environment in which all employees are treated fairly and respectfully, have equal access to opportunities and resources, and can contribute fully to SCOR’s success.

Job DescriptionThis position is an integral role in the department and will perform mortality and lapse experience studies using the company’s internal life reinsurance data to support research, assumption setting, and other purposes. The position may also assist in building/modifying/implementing data analytic and machine learning models as well as data visualization tools to provide insights into the company’s data and experience. In addition, this position will collaborate with various departments, as necessary. This includes working with Operations and IT to address requests or questions necessary to produce the experience studies or to understand the results while analyzing the studies. It also includes occasionally partnering with Pricing, Financial Solutions, Inforce Optimization, and Finance to support their objectives. This position can be located in either Charlotte, NC or Leawood, KS with remote options considered depending on the candidate.Responsibilities<ul><li>Analyze claims experience and policyholder behavior to prepare mortality and lapse studies</li><li>Optimize the process and maintain tools used to produce these studies </li><li>Maintain a procedure for ensuring the accuracy of studies produced with documentation of key controls</li><li>Create user-friendly extracts from mortality and lapse studies to support work performed by other teams including creation and maintenance of Tableau dashboards</li><li>Build, modify, and/or implement machine learning models and data analytical tools for use in understanding drivers of claims experience</li><li>Work across departments to provide data, results, or analysis from the experience studies when requested</li><li>Provide support to best-estimate assumption setting and other actuarial functions of the company, as required</li><li>Perform other tasks as needed to accomplish the goals of the Experience Analysis department</li></ul>Qualifications<ul><li>Two or more years of actuarial experience involving life insurance. </li><li>Either Associateship in the Society of Actuaries (ASA) or at least four exams passed towards the designation.</li><li>Participation in the Actuarial Student Program with intent to complete the educational requirements to become a Fellow in the Society of Actuaries.</li><li>Solid mathematical analysis skills with strong problem-solving ability</li><li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills</li><li>Strong collaboration skills</li><li>Highly motivated/self-starter</li><li>Must be able to work effectively as part of a team and independently with readiness to travel on occasion</li><li>High level of computer literacy with strong skills in MS Office </li><li>Experience with or ability to quickly learn SQL Server Management Studio</li><li>Experience with or ability to quickly learn Tableau</li><li>Experience with or ability to quickly learn R and/or Python </li><li>Regular attendance and ability to work extended hours as necessary to meet deadlines</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Analytics, Finance or related area</li><li>Associate of the Society of Actuaries (ASA) with current compliance with Continuing Professional Development requirements or significant progress towards ASA designation (four+ exams)</li></ul>About usSCOR, the 4th largest reinsurer in the world, provides insurance companies with a diversified and innovative range of solutions and services to control and manage risk. Leveraging experience and expertise to deliver “The Art &amp; Science of Risk”, SCOR provides cutting-edge financial solutions, analytics tools and services in all areas related to risk – from Life &amp; Health and Property &amp; Casualty insurance to Investments. Our specialized teams operate in over 160 countries, fostering long-term relationships with clients.In order to provide our clients with a broad range of innovative reinsurance solutions, SCOR pursues an underwriting policy that is founded on profitability and supported by effective risk management strategy and a prudent investment policy. This approach allows us to offer clients an optimum level of security, to create value for shareholders, and to contribute to the welfare and resilience of society by helping to protect insureds against the risks they face.At SCOR, we believe that employing people from different backgrounds and ensuring inclusivity is a major driving force for the success of the Group. We are committed to fostering a work environment in which all employees are treated fairly and respectfully, have equal access to opportunities and resources, and can contribute fully to SCOR’s success.

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