Associate, Pricing and Portfolio Management

Great Eastern; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 48,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider in Malaysia is seeking an Associate for Pricing and Portfolio Management. This role involves providing business underwriting and technical advisory services, ensuring timely management and external report deliveries, and performing risk assessments. Ideal candidates should possess a Bachelor's degree in Actuarial, Statistics, or Mathematics and demonstrate strong communication, integrity, and accountability skills. Competitive salaries and opportunities for career progression are offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Actuarial, Statistics, or Mathematics.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, with a good command of written and spoken English.
• High level of integrity and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Provide pricing quotations and technical advisory services to all distribution channels.
• Ensure timely management reports and external reports deliveries.
• Perform risk assessments to determine risks and potential business impacts.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Integrity

Education

Bachelor Degree in Actuarial / Statistics / Mathematics

Job description

Associate, Pricing and Portfolio Management

To provide business underwriting and technical advisory services for New Business Pricing / Renewal Business Pricing / Reporting and to work towards team and departmental goals.

• Provide pricing quotations and technical advisory services to all distribution channels in timely manner and work within pricing parameters.
• Ensure timely management reports and external reports deliveries.
• Perform risk assessment to determine risk and potential business impact.
• Ensure Pricing and Reporting response within service standards.
• Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.
• Maintains awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company.
• Highlights any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practices.
• Bachelor Degree in Actuarial / Statistics / Mathematics
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, and with a good command of written and spoken English.
• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork.
• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes.

How you succeed

• Champion and embody our Core Values in everyday tasks and interactions.
• Demonstrate high level of integrity and accountability.
• Take initiative to drive improvements and embrace change.
• Take accountability of business and regulatory compliance risks, implementing measures to mitigate them effectively.
• Keep abreast with industry trends, regulatory compliance, and emerging threats and technologies to understand and highlight potential concerns/ risks to safeguard our company proactively.

Who we are

Founded in 1908, Great Eastern is a well-established market leader and trusted brand in Singapore and Malaysia. With over S$100 billion in assets and more than 16 million policyholders, including 12.5 million from government schemes, it provides insurance solutions to customers through three successful distribution channels – a tied agency force, bancassurance, and financial advisory firm Great Eastern Financial Advisers. The Group also operates in Indonesia and Brunei.

The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company Limited and Great Eastern General Insurance Limited have been assigned the financial strength and counterparty credit ratings of "AA-" by S&P Global Ratings since 2010, one of the highest among Asian life insurance companies. Great Eastern's asset management subsidiary, Lion Global Investors Limited, is one of the leading asset management companies in Southeast Asia.

Great Eastern is a subsidiary of OCBC, the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932. It is the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s and AA- by both Fitch and S&P. Recognised for its financial strength and stability, OCBC is consistently ranked among the World’s Top 50 Safest Banks by Global Finance and has been named Best Managed Bank in Singapore by The Asian Banker.