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Underwriting Analytics Engineer


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  • London
  • 1 week ago

About us

Avencia Consulting are recruiting on behalf of a leading Bespoke & Specialty Insurer based in the City who are looking for an Underwriting Analytics Engineer to join.

The role

We're looking for a passionate Analytics Engineer to join our Actuarial and Underwriting Analytics team. This team leverages technical expertise in actuarial modelling, statistical analysis, and risk management solutions to support a high-impact team of 90+ underwriters. The Actuarial team works seamlessly with Underwriting to help the company stay ahead in the ever-changing insurance market.

In this commercial role, you will own and develop a forward-thinking analytics suite to elevate the Actuarial and Underwriting teams and help answer the most difficult business challenges. You will work closely with the Data team as the company implements a new data architecture.

Key accountabilities

Be a strategic partner to the Underwriting team: Helping to identify critical analytical problems and find innovative solutions with data.
Bring fresh insight into a progressing space, identifying the key issue to solve for, and how to unearth the metrics that will inform key business decisions.
Understand and take ownership of our business processes, and recommend improvements in data management, error identification, quality control, or process automation.
Ensure best practice and process documents are created to support training across the team
Collaborate with Actuaries, Underwriters, Data Engineers and Data Analysts to conduct analyses and apply statistics to answer specific day-to-day questions or support larger initiatives.
Develop data-driven stories to answer some of the toughest questions in insurance through data visualization and the summarizing of insights in verbal and written form.Skills & experience

Strong knowledge of insurance processes and KPIs e.g. Pricing, Reserving and Underwriting practices
Experience in Insurance Accounting, or familiarity with London Market specialty business lines for Insurance coverages and data.
Advanced degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics or a related field or relevant industry experience.
Expert programming and data manipulation skills using SQL and Python
Strong data visualization skills and experience with Power BI is necessary
Ability to develop relationships with key stakeholders both internal and externally across the Company.
Demonstrated ability to thrive with minimal oversight and process. You connect the dots across business needs and independently drive projects forward.
Experience building data modelling, building data pipelines and working with job scheduling systems is a bonus.
Experience working with 3rd party APIs for data ingestion is a plus

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