Actuarial Expert-pricing Excellence - Toronto, Canada - Wawanesa Insurance

Wawanesa Insurance

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Date:
Jan 20, 2023

Location:
Toronto, ON, CA, M2P-2B7 Remote - Canada, CA Winnipeg, MB, CA, R3C-3P1 Vancouver, British Columbia, CA, V6J-4Y3 Calgary, AB, CA, T2R-0E4 Moncton, New Brunswick, CA, E1E-4R5 Edmonton, AB, CA, T6E-6A8

Company:
Wawanesa Insurance

We're proud to give our employees the flexibility to choose how and where they want to work. In this role, you can decide whether your preference is to work from home (remote), work from the office or a hybrid of time spent at both.

You may work from any of the following locations:
British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland & Labrador and/or the Yukon.

The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company, founded in 1896, is Canada's largest mutual insurer, with $3.9 billion in annual revenue and assets of $10.5 billion.

Wawanesa Mutual, with executive offices in Winnipeg, is the parent company of Wawanesa General, which offers property and casualty insurance in California and Oregon; Wawanesa Life, which provides life insurance products and services throughout Canada; and Western Financial Group, which distributes personal and business insurance across Western Canada.

With more than 5,700 employees, Wawanesa proudly serves more than two million policyholders in Canada and the United States.
Wawanesa actively gives back to organizations that strengthen communities where it operates, donating well above internationally recognized benchmarks for excellence in corporate philanthropy.

We are currently looking for dedicated, driven, and enthusiastic individuals who thrive in an environment that welcomes change and are looking for an opportunity for diverse experience and advancement on a growing team.

Job Overview:

Responsibilities:

Analytical
High degree of mastery over accessing, selecting, and interpreting data.
Works independently.
Mastery over multiple types of analytical tools.
Evaluates procedures and processes, and recommend alternatives or improvements.
Subject matter expert on valuable analytical methods
Strong ability to innovate on complex projects
Process Improvement/Efficiency
Automates routine tasks to focus on highleverage work items.
Able to design and implement robust processes that make work easier for themselves and their peers.
Develops creative approaches to solve complex issues and assesses impacts of solution options
Industry
A leader in the actuarial community. May include teaching, volunteering, or authoring papers to advance actuarial knowledge. Brings that knowledge and experience to Wawanesa's actuarial community.
Commitment to Learning
Regularly shares their expertise with other actuaries at Wawanesa. Contributes to training materials. Facilitates opportunities for others to learn. Keeps up with their professional development opportunities.
Stakeholder Management
Has a strong network inside and outside of Wawanesa. Leverages rapport with stakeholders to keep people up to date on key projects.
Project Management
Leads largescale, complex and highimpact projects and initiatives across diverse project teams. Requires mínimal oversight from management. Includes implementation of final product. Includes training and documentation of the project.
Mentorship
Actively contributes to the mentorship, training and development of actuarial analysts and sometimes managers
Coaching & Developing Others
Creates coaching opportunities with analysts and managers to improve their technical abilities.
Performs thoughtful and relevant peerreview at a high level.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or other related discipline
More than ten years of actuarial experience an asset
FCAS designation required
Communication/Building Relationships
Advanced communicator. People trust the communications of an expert.
Leaves behind useful and functional documentation on projects.
Strong negotiator and storyteller. Uses graphs and data in a way that supplements their arguments.
Persuasive with the conclusions from their work. Often presents their work to Director + level.
Computer/Programming Skills
Fully proficient with Excel, SQL, R, Python, or other specialized programs.
Leverages the right program(s) for the job.
Problem solving
Excellent problem solver. Integrates knowledge from actuarial science, math, statistics, general business to solve advanced problems. Often working on the highestpriority problems for Wawanesa. May offer recommendations for what are the highestpriority problems for Wawanesa to solve.
Detail oriented
Others can trust that the Actuarial Expert has attended to the right details for their work.
Attends to the right details for accuracy, reasonability, and consistency in their conclusions.
Time Management/Organization
Ability to prioritize and complete multiple concurrent assignments, both individual