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Property & Casualty Actuarial Director
PwC
New York, NY, United States
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What will you do if you work in Assurance at PwC?
You'll ask questions and test assumptions. You'll help determine if companies are reporting information that investors and others can rely on. You'll help businesses solve complex issues faced by management and boards. You'll serve the public interest and the capital markets by conducting quality audits. Visit http://pwc.to/pwcassurance for more information on PwC's Assurance practice.
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Our focus is on globalization, technology, sustainability and environmental reporting, population shifts and regulation. We combine skills and experience to help our clients address their challenges.
Job Description
PwC's Business Advisory Services group is a distinctive practice that provides audit, technical accounting, tax, regulatory, compliance, valuation services, risk management, financial analysis and cashflow modeling, outsourcing, securities processing, payments, information risk and security, data quality, mergers and acquisitions, and other services. Our integrated knowledge enables us to help our clients design solutions that work.
Our professionals assist with many of today's largest, most challenging issues impacting the following sectors:
• Asset management
• Banking and capital markets
• Consumer Finance
• Structured Products
• Insurance
We are also the thought leader in the financial services industry. We produce almost 150 publications and e-briefings on the financial services industry, most of which are sector specific, as well as a wide range of training and special events on issues that affect reporting and corporate governance throughout the business world.
The 1,100 professionals on PwC's global actuarial services team help clients act decisively on their most important issues. We apply our risk and analytical skills to turn complex data into the predictive insights that inform practical business solutions.
The US actuarial services team consists of 175 credentialed life, health and non-life actuaries. We provide advice and consulting services to life and health insurers, non-life insurers, reinsurers, captives, corporations and other non-insurance entities, third-party administrators, regulators, agents and brokers, and bureaus and associations.
PwC's Property and Casualty Actuarial Services team provides a broad range of commercially-focused services and solutions to:
• Personal, commercial and specialty lines insurers and reinsurers;
• Corporations that purchase commercial insurance or self-insure, including healthcare provision; and,
• Enterprises that run loyalty programs or offer extended warranty solutions.
We have experience with underwriting, pricing, enterprise risk management, capital management and modeling, financial due diligence and valuation, ceded reinsurance strategy and modeling, claims cost management, transfer pricing, and other insurance-related areas. We also have extensive loss reserving knowledge and capabilities in all personal and commercial lines of business, including specialty lines such as workers compensation, professional liability, general liability, excess casualty and mortgage/financial guaranty.
Position/Program Requirements
Basic Qualifications: Demonstrates expertise of managing traditional loss reserving and ratemaking projects, establishing and implementing engagement workplans, and conducting other risk-analysis related-projects that include at least one or more of the following areas:
• Economic capital model validation; Enterprise risk framework consulting; Financial performance reviews; Strategic planning and analysis; Merger and acquisition valuations; and Reinsurance program review and expert witness testimony.
Demonstrates proven success and expert-level leadership skills with directing project management teams, including guiding the work performed by our associates, completing assignments with minimal supervision, and providing feedback and performance coaching to engagement team members.
Minimum Years of Experience: 10
Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor's degree with documented concentrations academic background in Actuarial Science, Applied Statistics, Financial Analysis, Insurance, Economics, Mathematics or related quantitative discipline
Certification(s) Required: Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society
Degree(s) Preferred: Master's degree in Actuarial Science, Applied Statistics, Financial Analysis, Insurance, Economics, Mathematics or related quantitative discipline
Knowledge Preferred:
Demonstrates expertise with, and/or a proven record of success performing in a role emphasizing, directing project management engagements and teams that utilize detailed analytical and creative problem-solving skills to manage multiple, concurrent projects related to risk analysis and/or financial reporting in one or more of the following areas:
-Reserve Analysis; Mergers & Acquisitions; Product Design & Pricing; Litigation Support; Regulatory Assistance; Alternative Markets; Reinsurance; Enterprise Risk Management.
-Captive feasibility studies; Transfer pricing, IRS tax disputes involving insurance reserves, Cash flow projections, Funding studies, Allocation schemes, and Retrospective rating plan premium accrual calculations.
Demonstrates expertise with, and/or a proven record of success performing in a role that emphasizes, statistical modeling, related applications, and computer applications (i.e. Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word) to conduct analyses and render findings related to Enterprise Risk modeling, Economic Capital Modeling, and/or Complex model validation.
Demonstrates expertise with, and/or a proven record of success performing in a role emphasizing, interpreting and consulting on accounting standards (e.g., FASB, IFRS) as it applies to actuarial consulting and risk analysis.
Skills Preferred:
Demonstrates expert negotiation and persuasion skills used to sell potential new service opportunities, including a proven track record with identifying and converting potential engagement opportunities and developing market presence.
Demonstrates expertise and/or a proven track record of success to lead client projects, understanding a client's business and technology in order to identify, pursue, and ultimately obtain additional consulting opportunities.
Demonstrates expert proven ability to write and present cogently for industry audiences and clients, including journal articles, practice methodologies and tools, and the writing and presentation of whitepapers.
Demonstrates expert leadership abilities and/or a track record of success as a team and/or practice leader by creating a positive environment, monitoring workloads of the team while meeting client expectations and respecting the work-life quality of team members. This includes providing candid, meaningful feedback in a timely manner, and keeping leadership informed of progress.