Senior Pricing Analyst

RenaissanceRe is a leading writer of Property & Casualty Reinsurance. For over 25 years, we have helped customers and communities recover and build resilience through our industry-leading ability to understand risk, source efficient capital and rapidly pay claims.

Our global team shares a passion for solving our customers’ biggest problems through a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture that empowers employees and rewards creative thinking.

POSITION SUMMARY

This role is responsible for assisting in the evaluation and pricing of reinsurance opportunities for the Zurich platform, and enhancing assumption sets across its relevant territories.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABLITIES:

• Contribute to the development of the Zurich platform’s portfolio across all major lines of business.
• Assist in evaluating risk over a broad range of deals, ensuring consistency with the global pricing team’s pricing methodologies.
• Liaise with clients and brokers to ensure the provision of appropriate information for assessing risk.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of RenaissanceRe’s proprietary modelling and continuing development of its pricing platform.
• Track industry trends, engage with data aggregators, and generally enhance the group’s knowledge of market characteristics, utilizing relevant proprietary and publicly available data.

EXPECTED COMPETANCIES:

• A university degree with emphasis on mathematics, statistics, economics, finance or a similar scientific field.
• Advanced progression towards ACAS, FCAS, SAV, FIA or similar.
• 5+ years of experience in the (re)insurance industry.
• Prior experience in pricing reinsurance treaties, including the common forms of reinsurance relevant to the major insurance classes.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills, including knowledge of concepts such as distribution extrapolation, curve fitting, and portfolio optimization.
• Ability to effectively verbally communicate analytical findings to a broad audience, including senior actuaries, underwriters, and senior management.
• Advanced knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite of applications.
• Programming knowledge (Python, SQL) an advantage.
• Fluent in English, with French, German, and other languages an advantage.

Our people are our most valuable resource and core to our success. This is a fast-paced business environment, demanding a strong work ethic and a results-oriented approach. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, a comprehensive talent development program, and a reward system in which employees share in the success of the company. We are an engaged member of the communities in which we live and work and have a locally-led giving philosophy with generous employee matching program, global and local community grants and employee volunteerism.

We seek diversity, create equity, and practice inclusion. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We are an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, disability, military status or other legally protected categories.