Non Life Actuary - Risk & Capital - Manager

PwC UK; London; Hybrid; CAD 132,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Private medical cover

Volunteer days

Job summary

PwC UK Actuarial is seeking a Manager to help grow our risk and capital proposition, guiding clients through solvency, economic capital, IFRS17, and regulatory changes. You will lead multidisciplinary teams, manage complex assignments, and mentor junior staff while collaborating with PwC network firms globally.

This hybrid role involves office, home, and client-site work across our London practice, with opportunities to shape strategy and develop our core risk capabilities for a wide range of

Qualifications

• Experience in risk and capital modelling and broader commercial awareness of market issues.
• Ability to communicate complex, technical issues to senior management clearly and succinctly.
• Experience mentoring and developing junior actuarial staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide solvency, economic capital, risk management advice and engage in mergers, restructurings and regulatory updates.
• Lead actuarial and multidisciplinary assignments, often as main client contact.
• Develop and present training and core product areas in risk and capital.
• Coach and mentor junior staff and contribute to practice management.

Skills

Capital modelling

Risk management

Model development

Communication to senior management

Leadership / mentoring

Education

Actuarial qualification

Tools

Igloo

ReMetrica

Tyche

Job description

• The PwC Actuarial practice comprises over 300 partners and staff. With offices in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol and Mumbai, our consultants focus on non-life, life, banking and non-insurance, led by a fifteen strong partner team. We play the leading role in the 1000+ strong actuarial community in PwC worldwide and often work with specialists from other disciplines within PwC.
• A career within the Non-Life Actuarial team will provide you with the opportunity to contribute general insurance advice and consulting services to clients such as insurers, regulators, private equity, and related companies such as agents and administrators.
• Our team advises clients in the general insurance and non-insurance industries on business risks and regulatory updates from natural catastrophes to mortgage defaults. We develop comprehensive risk analysis and mathematical models to help organisations enhance their business forecasting capabilities, limit their risks, and use their data informatively to make better strategic business decisions. Our clients trust us to provide well informed and insightful challenges to their business, and the models they use to inform decision making.
• Our practice is market leading in the General Insurance space – offering unparalleled access to solving some of the biggest challenges in the non-life industry today for a vast array of clients – large multi-national composites, Lloyd’s & London Market, UK & European Personal & Commercial, and Reinsurance Market including many of the well known brands, from global reinsurers to niche players.

• The PwC Actuarial practice comprises over 300 partners and staff. With offices in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol and Mumbai, our consultants focus on non-life, life, banking and non-insurance, led by a fifteen strong partner team. We play the leading role in the 1000+ strong actuarial community in PwC worldwide and often work with specialists from other disciplines within PwC.
• A career within the Non-Life Actuarial team will provide you with the opportunity to contribute general insurance advice and consulting services to clients such as insurers, regulators, private equity, and related companies such as agents and administrators.
• Our team advises clients in the general insurance and non-insurance industries on business risks and regulatory updates from natural catastrophes to mortgage defaults. We develop comprehensive risk analysis and mathematical models to help organisations enhance their business forecasting capabilities, limit their risks, and use their data informatively to make better strategic business decisions. Our clients trust us to provide well informed and insightful challenges to their business, and the models they use to inform decision making.
• Our practice is market leading in the General Insurance space – offering unparalleled access to solving some of the biggest challenges in the non-life industry today for a vast array of clients – large multi-national composites, Lloyd’s & London Market, UK & European Personal & Commercial, and Reinsurance Market including many of the well known brands, from global reinsurers to niche players.

About The Role

• The PwC Actuarial practice comprises over 300 partners and staff. With offices in London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol and Mumbai, our consultants focus on non-life, life, banking and non-insurance, led by a fifteen strong partner team. We play the leading role in the 1000+ strong actuarial community in PwC worldwide and often work with specialists from other disciplines within PwC.
• A career within the Non-Life Actuarial team will provide you with the opportunity to contribute general insurance advice and consulting services to clients such as insurers, regulators, private equity, and related companies such as agents and administrators.
• Our team advises clients in the general insurance and non-insurance industries on business risks and regulatory updates from natural catastrophes to mortgage defaults. We develop comprehensive risk analysis and mathematical models to help organisations enhance their business forecasting capabilities, limit their risks, and use their data informatively to make better strategic business decisions. Our clients trust us to provide well informed and insightful challenges to their business, and the models they use to inform decision making.
• Our practice is market leading in the General Insurance space – offering unparalleled access to solving some of the biggest challenges in the non-life industry today for a vast array of clients – large multi-national composites, Lloyd’s & London Market, UK & European Personal & Commercial, and Reinsurance Market including many of the well known brands, from global reinsurers to niche players.

What Your Days Will Look Like

• You’ll provide advice covering solvency, economic capital, risk management, mergers and acquisitions, company restructuring and risk control, financial modelling, business planning, new legislation, and the efficiency and reliability of reporting processes.
• As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. You’ll manage and deliver a wide range of concurrent actuarial and multidisciplinary assignments where you’ll interact with clients, often as the main point of contact on assignments. You’ll also have the opportunity to work in multidisciplinary teams or with people from our network firms overseas.
• You’ll take an active role in supporting the strategic management and running of the practice, e.g. through being involved in developing one of our core product areas in risk and capital, such as risk challenge or ESG, or developing and presenting training programs for graduates and staff.
• You’ll be involved in the development of more junior staff through on the job coaching, or acting as a career coach, mentor or study mentor.

This Role Is For You If

• We are currently seeking a Manager to help us with our successful & expanding risk & capital proposition. We are looking for individuals with relevant experience who are able to work well as part of a team and who are responsible, agile, clear-thinking and self-motivated.
• You will also have a good understanding of a broad range of commonly used capital modelling, risk management techniques and broader commercial awareness of the key issues faced by the market and an ability to communicate complex, technical issues to senior management simply and incisively is essential. Additionally, experience across our wider offering would be viewed favourably (Catastrophe Risk; Reserving & Pricing; Deals; IFRS17; Audit; ) as would a focus on new and emerging areas (e.g. Cyber, Climate, ESG).
• You will have experience in risk and capital modelling (for example, model development and implementation, and model validation), and a strong understanding of insurance risks and their dependencies or have a strong desire to develop such a focus. Experience with Solvency II internal models, risk management, capital modelling software packages (e.g. as Igloo, ReMetrica, Tyche), and managing regulatory relationships would be advantageous.

What You’ll Receive From Us

No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions.

We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.