Pricing Team Leader M/F
Crédit Agricole
- Dublin
- Permanent
- Full-time
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- Liaise with our Business Development team to understand our partners' evolving needs
- Monitor and interrogate emerging insurance data to examine trends and ensure that our products provide value and meet the needs of our customers
- Build / modify the product offer (contracting, pricing, new guarantees)
- Conduct detailed actuarial analyses, make appropriate assumptions, communicate results to the stakeholders (including senior management) and make recommendations in a fast-paced environment
- Prepare profitability/stress scenarios to assess the technical feasibility of the proposed marketing solutions
- Perform backtesting analyses to confirm the appropriateness of our best estimate assumptions
- Contribute towards the development of the software tools used by the underwriting department (mainly pricing tool, business plan tool...)
- Support and assist pricing colleagues and Pricing and Underwriting Manager in developing/documenting underwriting guidelines
- Participate in ad-hoc technical reports/projects, representing Pricing/Actuarial viewpoint and considerations
- Comply with the company's Underwriting Policy and governance when preparing pricing proposals
- Proactively engage with the wider business to ensure optimal impact of Pricing work
- Leverage experience and partner knowledge to propose solutions to various queries as they arise, at times in the absence of existing structures
- Recruit and integrate new joiners into the French Pricing Team / CACI
- Facilitate the development of Team members through regular feedback, guidance and coaching, to help them reach their potential within CACI
- Proactive and continuous performance management to recognise success and help identify areas for further growth
- Prioritise and delegate workload and projects to Team members, to ensure a successful delivery of Team's objectives while following good governance
- Promote CACI's culture within the team, advocating for collaboration and knowledge sharing while contributing to employee engagement
- Ensure adherence to all HR policies and procedures within the Team
- Represent the French Pricing Team (and their best interests) in various meetings/forums as required
- With other Actuarial teams in both CACI / Dublin and CAA / France, Business Development dept., other departments and head office
- With management including Pricing and Underwriting Manager, Actuarial and Underwriting, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Risk Officer
- With Auditors, Internal audit, corporate clients & third party administrators
- Attend partner committees
- Attend other meeting as necessary and/or as delegate of pricing manager (e.g. NAP, Business committee, OAC)
- Role requires an actuary with a minimum of 4 years' experience. The role may also be adapted for candidates with strong analytical background and experience in areas covering finance/insurance and statistics/data analytics.
- Minimum 4 years experience
- Pricing background advantageous
- People management experience preferred
- High level of numeracy and computer literacy; Visual Basic, excel, SAS, Prophet, SQL, R, etc.
- Analytical skills with a high level of problem solving capability
- Critical thinking with experience in implementing innovative solutions
- Logical, methodical and systematic approach
- Ability to meet deadlines and manage stakeholder expectations
- Able to manage, prioritize and organize their work and that of the French Pricing Team