Life & Health Senior Systems Actuary

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**Job Description**:
**About the role**:
The Global Actuarial Infrastructure Team fosters trusted, collaborative and efficient relationships with partner teams to develop and maintain the actuarial aspects of the L&H pricing and valuation infrastructure and execute the following remit. In this role, you will have the following responsibilities:

- To lead the development and maintenance of actuarial systems, models and tools used in regulatory reporting for solvency regimes and financial statements (Multi GAAP)
- Lead on the implementation of change projects including an ongoing modelling platform migration from MoSes & RAFM to AXIS
- Support the build of a centralised database with supporting transformation and aggregate calculation tools
- Modernize, extend and harmonize the aggregation and consolidation tools across the different processes and geographies, by limiting as much as possible the use of Excel and manual retreatments
- Enhance the visualization and analysis capability for use in the validation of results, production of management reporting metrics and implementation of controls
- Working closely with the life actuarial teams, Operations, Finance, IT, external consultants and vendors to implement changes to the modelling architecture
- Review existing process and improve operational efficiency of the regulatory reporting
- Ensure a robust control framework by automation of validations
- Develop and enforce best practices for model governance
- Mentor and guide other team members in the use and development of models and tools
- Assist team in implementation of data and model requirements for IFRS 17, USGAAP LDTI, FRGAAP, SII, BMA, MAS, VIF including writing and reviewing technical specifications and testing
- Line of Business models: Assist with model improvements for in-force business as required (Moody’s AXIS / RAFM / In-house)
- Assist with model implementation for new business

**Qualifications**:
**About you**:
We are looking for a qualified Actuary or experienced professional with university degree in relevant field (Actuarial, Statistics, IT, Engineering) with 10 or more years working experience in Life reserving or pricing in the (re)insurance field, or related actuarial experience with solid systems development background and exposure to financial transformation projects. Prior experience of financial reporting with respect to regulatory reporting regimes including USGAAP LDTI, IFRS 17, SII, BMA, MAS, VIF would be a distinct advantage. Furthermore, you bring the following background:
Technical skills
- Strong IT and data management skills;
- Knowledge in relevant software: Moody’s/AXIS/Risk Integrity/ Moses/ RAFM/ C++/ R/ SQL/ VBA/ Business Objects/ Python/ Data Virtuality/ Snowflake
- Reinsurance knowledge is an asset
- Strongly driven to streamline business processes, with an emphasis on automation and maintainability
- Experience in specification, development and testing of actuarial and data transformation software

Personal and communication
- Organized, able to work in a matrix structure
- Able to set and manage priorities
- Strong communication skills and proficiency in English
- High motivation, team-orientation
- Keen to work with other cultures

Additional Information

PartnerRe provides a working environment in which diversity is valued, where all employees feel welcome, respected, and empowered to perform at their best. We invite you to learn more about D&I at PartnerRe.

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PartnerRe Hiring Team