Specialist Actuary, AFR

AXA SA • $112K — $177K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of actuarial work experience in property and casualty insurance or reinsurance
  • FCAS designation or equivalent seniority with ACAS
  • Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, or a related field
  • Strong communication skills for diverse audience engagement
  • Proficient in time management for handling multiple tasks
  • Team-oriented interpersonal skills
  • Advanced analytical skills with expertise in business productivity software
  • Strong Excel and Microsoft Office proficiency for data handling and presentations
  • Experience with reserving methods and tools for data management

Responsibilities

  • Support development of reserve indications and evaluate reserve performance
  • Conduct deep-dive analytics for forward-looking recommendations
  • Build relationships with key stakeholders to influence business decisions
  • Provide insightful business intelligence for strategic actuarial initiatives
  • Prepare actuarial reports focusing on emerging risk areas
  • Collaborate with global actuarial and financial teams
  • Stay informed on current trends in assigned areas

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, wellness, and lifestyle benefits package
  • Enterprising retirement savings plan
  • Personalized and inclusive employee benefits
  • Opportunity for professional development and learning
  • Engagement in an extensive sustainability strategy
  • Access to volunteering and charitable giving programs
  • Support for mental health and financial wellbeing
Full Job Description
At AXA XL, our Reserving Actuaries have the unique opportunity to interface globally with varied business teams including underwriting, pricing, claims, operations, reinsurance, and information technology. Using your focused technical knowledge, in direct coordination with our teams of experienced actuaries and underwriters, you will develop a robust understanding of the diverse markets served by the North America Insurance Business Group at AXA XL.

By digging deep into the business and providing forward-looking insights, you will have a direct impact on strategic business initiatives. Using market leading analytical tools, you will ensure that approaches and trends in ratemaking, planning, and forecasting result in reserve adequacy across varied commercial lines of business. While each day and situation bring new challenges, our reserving actuaries effectively develop solutions to complex problems by taking ownership of the reserving process ensuring AXA XL can meet financial obligations.

Through your reserving initiatives in multiple growth segments, you will be task-focused on providing insightful business intelligence, providing oversight on global reserving initiatives to enable AXA XL to react more quickly to emerging trends within the market.

What you'll be doing
  • Supporting the development of reserve indications while proactively evaluating and retrospectively reviewing reserve performance.
  • Performing deep-dive analytics to develop forward-looking recommendations for senior leadership.
  • Building effective relationships with key stakeholders / business partners in finance and underwriting by acting as a consultative business partner in influencing business decisions.
  • Supporting strategic actuarial initiatives by providing insightful business intelligence.
  • Preparing actuarial reports and exhibits on business unit results to concentrate resources on emerging risk areas.
  • Collaborating with actuarial and other financial teams around the globe.
  • Staying abreast of current trends and developments in assigned functional areas.

What you will BRING

We're looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

Required Skills and Abilities:
  • Actuarial work experience within the property and casualty insurance or reinsurance industry.
  • FCAS or seasoned ACAS.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Economics, Statistics, or related field.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate clearly and concisely with internal and external clients who have varying levels of actuarial knowledge.
  • Excellent time management skills, including the ability to handle multiple simultaneous tasks.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, especially the ability to work well within our collaborative team environment.
  • Robust analytical and research skills with the ability to use a wide variety of business productivity software.
  • Outstanding Excel and Microsoft Office skills for data extraction, manipulation, reporting, documentation, and presentations.
  • Experience with reserving methods and tools to structure, access, and manage data sets for modeling and managing risk.
  • Ability to hit the ground running yet comfortable asking questions to develop business knowledge and effective solutions.

What we OFFER

Total Rewards

AXA XL's Reward program is designed to take care of what matters most to you, covering the full picture of your health, wellbeing, lifestyle and financial security. It provides enterprising compensation and personalized, inclusive benefits that evolve as you do.

We're committed to rewarding your contribution for the long term, so you can be your best self today and look forward to the future with confidence.

Sustainability

At AXA XL, Sustainability is integral to our business strategy. In an ever-changing world, AXA XL protects what matters most for our clients and communities. We know that sustainability is at the root of a more resilient future. Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called "Roots of resilience", focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations.

Our Pillars:

  • Valuing nature: How we impact nature affects how nature impacts us. Resilient ecosystems - the foundation of a sustainable planet and society - are essential to our future. We're committed to protecting and restoring nature - from mangrove forests to the bees in our backyard - by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans.
  • Addressing climate change: The effects of a changing climate are far-reaching and significant. Unpredictable weather, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels cause both social inequalities and environmental disruption. We're building a net zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions.
  • Integrating ESG: All companies have a role to play in building a more resilient future. Incorporating ESG considerations into our internal processes and practices builds resilience from the roots of our business. We're training our colleagues, engaging our external partners, and evolving our sustainability governance and reporting.
  • AXA Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as AXA XL's "Hearts in Action" programs. These include our Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and our annual volunteering day - the Global Day of Giving.


For more information, please see Sustainability at AXA XL.

The U.S. base salary range for this position is USD $112,700 - $177,600.

Actual pay will be determined based upon the individual's skills, experience and location. We strive for market alignment and internal equity with our colleagues' pay.

At AXA XL, we know how important physical, mental, and financial health are to our employees, which is why we are proud to offer benefits such as an enterprising retirement savings plan, health and wellness programs, and many other benefits. We also believe in fostering our colleagues' development and offer a wide range of learning opportunities for colleagues to hone their professional skills and to position themselves for the next step of their careers. For more details about AXA XL's benefits offerings, please visit US Benefits at a Glance 2026.

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