Lead actuarial pricing and portfolio analytics for prospective reinsurance transactions. Partner with underwriters throughout the transaction lifecycle to structure deals, assess risk-adjusted returns, and present recommendations to senior management. Manage, coach, and develop an Actuarial Analyst while strengthening pricing models, technical standards, and team capability. The role requires substantial non-life insurance or reinsurance experience, complex transaction pricing and reserving expertise, commercial judgment, and stakeholder-management skills.
Senior Pricing Actuary
London
Hybrid, two days in office
Permanent / full-time
We are a fast-growing global reinsurance speciality company servicing the insurance markets of Lloyd’s, Europe and North America.
Due to growth, we’re hiring a new Senior Pricing Actuary to join the Underwriting team in London.
London
Hybrid, two days in office
Permanent / full-time
We are a fast-growing global reinsurance speciality company servicing the insurance markets of Lloyd’s, Europe and North America.
Due to growth, we’re hiring a new Senior Pricing Actuary to join the Underwriting team in London.
Responsibilities
Reporting to a Technical Underwriting Director, this is commercially focused opportunity to lead the actuarial pricing and portfolio analytics capability supporting Compre’s prospective reinsurance business. You’ll work alongside underwriters across the full transaction lifecycle, shaping structures, assessing risk-adjusted returns and presenting recommendations to senior management.
You’ll also manage, coach and develop an Actuarial Analyst, helping to build the team’s pricing capability, models and technical standards as the portfolio grows.
You’ll also manage, coach and develop an Actuarial Analyst, helping to build the team’s pricing capability, models and technical standards as the portfolio grows.
Candidate requirements
We’re looking for a qualified actuary with:
• Substantial non-life insurance or reinsurance experience
• Expertise in complex transaction pricing and non-life reserving
• Strong commercial judgement and stakeholder-management skills
• Experience supervising, coaching or managing actuarial colleagues
• Liability or specialty lines experience; knowledge of portfolio reinsurance structures is advantageous
• Substantial non-life insurance or reinsurance experience
• Expertise in complex transaction pricing and non-life reserving
• Strong commercial judgement and stakeholder-management skills
• Experience supervising, coaching or managing actuarial colleagues
• Liability or specialty lines experience; knowledge of portfolio reinsurance structures is advantageous
Benefits
Compre is a global speciality reinsurance company that offers capital and liability solutions to its clients, providing them with the certainty they need on their portfolios. We are known for being trusted partners to the market and for having a team of experts who collaborate and maintain discipline in underwriting, ensuring a differentiated client experience.
As an ambitious business, we are focused on building depth, breadth, and diversity in the talent across our business to be future-ready. Our clients' needs evolve as the market changes, which is why we continuously invest in areas such as data and technology. This way, we can serve current and future clients' needs with scalable and new technology, delivered by our growing agile Data and Technology team.
- Our values are what make us stand out. We value each other, empower and hold ourselves accountable, are authentic, collaborative and inclusive, and continuously strive for progress and innovation.
Why join us?
At Compre, we offer a range of benefits and team engagement events and provide a supportive environment for learning and growth. We are intent upon building a great business, and over the last few years, we have expanded our markets across Europe, Lloyd's, and North America. Our team is based in Bermuda, Finland, Germany, Malta, UK and the US.
To keep our globally dispersed team connected, we have various employee resource groups, including Wellbeing, DEI, COMMS and Engagement.
We invest in our people and offer learning and development opportunities for leaders and employees to build confidence and grow their skill sets. We value teamwork, authenticity, and innovation, and provide a space for these behaviours to bloom at Compre.
Make an impact in a collaborative environment with some of the best talent in the industry, while enjoying:
· competitive salary & annual bonus
· a health & wellbeing subsidy (£20 per month) (from Day 1)
· a generous pension (eligible after probationary period)
· private healthcare from BUPA and a Healthcare Cash Plan from Medicash (from Day 1)
· life assurance (from Day 1)
· income protection (from Day 1)
· 25 days annual leave (from Day 1)
· cycle to work scheme (from Day 1)
· season ticket loan (interest free) (eligible after probationary period)
· electric vehicle scheme (eligible after probationary period)
· EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) (from Day 1)
· learning/study support and reimbursement for professional memberships
· hybrid working
· employee socials and recognition programme
About
Compre is an insurance & reinsurance legacy specialist focused on the acquisition and management of discontinued non-life portfolios, With Operations in Bermuda, Finland, Germany, Malta, Switzerland and the UK. We have significant experience in all classes of direct and reinsurance business, including property, liability, marine and motor. Compre is privately owned with shareholders actively involved in management of the business.
Compre Group London, England Office
London, United Kingdom
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