Within the insurance division, whose mission is to ensure profitability, development and sale of products and services and manage life insurance portfolio, Business Change & Monitoring Department directs and steers Life Insurance business on the basis of quantified analyses. It technically supports the business by carrying out necessary technical and actuarial studies, and analyses business projects with an IT impact.
The team consists of 12 colleagues who are waiting for a professional like you.
Your Responsibilities
As Senior Business Actuary, your key responsibility is managing life insurance portfolio profitability and optimising results at the business level.
Your responsibilities therefore include:
1. Managing product profitability while optimising existing models
* Analysing and steering profitability growth across our portfolio
* Developing absent profitability models in cooperation with finance teams and the Group
* Proposing business actions that improve profitability, reinsurance impact and results plus related follow up
1. Managing reinsurance of protection or financial type
* Defining forecasts and budgets linked to reinsurance products
* Monitoring and analysing performance of the portfolio linked to these reinsurance structures
* Managing reinsurance renewals
* Contributing to and challenging various results optimisation structures especially in connection with reinsurance
1. Business management of financial closures cycle
* Managing business closures within the team
* Producing reports on closures linked to reinsurance
* Helping stabilise information needed for closure such as:
* Managing and checking reserves to be set aside and various calculations to meet commitments
* Providing technical support for managers through actuarial calculations etc.
1. Acting as business technical referent
* Understanding and interpreting company's results at Belgian GAAP IFRS and Solvency II level
* Controlling impact of business dimensions Belgian GAAP in particular
* Serving as link with teams that produce Belgian GAAP IFRS and Solvency II results
* Proposing business actions to improve these results
* Putting into place and maintaining necessary models for team's activities as a whole budgets projections reinsurance provisions etc and identifying and implementing necessary optimisations
* Providing support in defining budgets and goals and for technical analyses relating to portfolio development
Your Profile
* You have a master's degree preferably in mathematics actuarial sciences or economics
* You have initial experience in similar position ideally in life insurance reinsurance or bank investment products sectors
* You have excellent knowledge of French or Dutch with good command of other national language and can work in English
* You have Excel VBA at your fingertips and are comfortable working with Powerpoint
* You have a command of at least one database query language SAS SQL
* You have analytical mind and necessary abstraction ability to understand results/figures and formulate recommendations
* You are able to present your analyses simply effectively and clearly to all interested parties including Senior Management
* You can work under pressure and respect tight deadlines
* You are autonomous and can take initiative
* You have a team spirit
Good Reasons to Join Us
* A permanent employment contract
* A company on human scale within dynamic group where you can rapidly have an impact
* Accessible management close to staff and pleasant working environment
* Many opportunities for development thanks in particular to Athora Academy
* Balance between professional life and private life with generous holidays at least 39 days a year flexible working hours and up to 3 days' teleworking a week
* An attractive salary package plus various fringe benefits
* Modern bright offices conducive to collaboration
* A central location in Porte de Namur district accessible by train and public transport and with parking facilities available if needed
* Last but not least a sunny terrace afterworks between colleagues teambuildings annual staff day and many other events to discover