Senior Reinsurance Pricing Actuary (International Casualty)

AXIS (AXIS Capital); Zürich; On-site; CHF 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

AXIS Capital in Zürich seeks a Reinsurance Pricing Actuary to support international casualty pricing for treaty business across Motor, General Liability and Professional Lines. You will collaborate with underwriters and actuarial colleagues to ensure robust pricing and sound risk assessment in a dynamic, international environment.

Fluent English is required; German or French is desirable. The role involves data collection, loss modelling, and advisory input to portfolio monitoring and planning.

Qualifications

• University degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science or a similar technical field.
• Qualified member of an actuarial society (e.g., CAS, IFoA, SAV or equivalent) or actively working towards qualification.
• Several years of experience in actuarial pricing, preferably within a reinsurance environment.
• Exposure to Casualty pricing, including Motor, across Europe, APAC, Middle East, and Latin America is strongly desired.
• Experience participating in or leading internal projects.
• Advanced IT skills, including familiarity with programming languages (e.g., VBA, R, SQL, C#).
• Strong proficiency in Excel and MS Office.
• Fluent in English is required; German or French is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Collect and validate data from clients to input and process it within AXIS pricing tools.
• Liaise with underwriting and actuarial colleagues to properly understand and reflect the risk.
• Perform loss modelling of International Casualty business.
• Use actuarial methods to estimate expected losses, cash flows, and risk aggregations.
• Advise management on technical pricing and ensure robust economic and actuarial evaluation of commercial agreements.
• Provide actuarial input into portfolio monitoring, business planning, and projections.
• Collect client and market data and perform actuarial studies.
• Support the development and maintenance of data analytics tools and models.
• Participate in cross-functional teams and projects and promote actuarial best practices.
• Participate in client and broker meetings; some travel may be required.
• You may also be required to take on additional duties, responsibilities and activities appropriate to the nature of this role.

Skills

Actuarial pricing

Data analytics

Excel

SQL

VBA

R

Education

Degree in Mathematics/Statistics/Actuarial

CAS/IFoA/SAV candidate

Tools

SQL

C#

Excel VBA

Job description

AXIS Capital in Zürich seeks a Reinsurance Pricing Actuary to support international casualty pricing for treaty business across Motor, General Liability and Professional Lines. You will collaborate with underwriters and actuarial colleagues to ensure robust pricing and sound risk assessment in a dynamic, international environment.

Fluent English is required; German or French is desirable. The role involves data collection, loss modelling, and advisory input to portfolio monitoring and planning.