Sr. Director, Actuarial Reserving - Bond & Specialty Insurance

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Actuarial, Data Analytics

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range$146,400.00 - $241,600.00

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Travelers Bond & Specialty Insurance (B&SI) is looking for a skilled manager and actuarial practitioner to join our reserving team as a Sr. Director. (Actuarial credentials are preferred, but not required for candidates with relevant experience.) In this position you will be responsible for reserving, loss analytics, and related support for the Public Company Liability and Financial Institutions business units, managing two reserving analysts. You will develop expertise in a diverse range of Management and Professional Liability products such as Cyber, Directors & Officers, Employment Practices Liability, Crime, and Transactional Liability. In this role, you will develop both your analytical and leadership skills to provide well reasoned reserving recommendations, influence important business decisions, and inspire innovation. You will be working closely with the Pricing, Product, Underwriting, and Claims teams to learn the business and communicate your findings and recommendations. Effective communication will be required as you build partnerships with senior management and other business partners throughout B&SI and the enterprise.
In addition to traditional reserving analysis, the B&SI reserving team is positioning itself to increasingly rely on innovative loss analytic methods, including the use of Artificial Intelligence tools. This will be a unique opportunity to get involved while these new approaches are still in development, directly influence how this transition happens, and help define the role of the reserving actuary of the future.

What Will You Do?

Strategy:

• Assess, prioritize, influence and communicate strategic initiative options to senior leaders.

• Demonstrate effective execution and completion of assigned strategic initiatives and projects.

• Generate and advocate for process improvements and actively propel innovation in alignment with existing strategy.

• This position will lead assigned unit strategic initiatives and cross-unit initiatives and is expected to participate in Enterprise initiatives on a limited basis.

Operational:

• Independently perform actuarial and analytic analyses to solve business problems and apply judgment appropriately.

• Drive day to day execution within unit. Begin to drive broad department initiatives.

• Promote efficiency across primary working group, balancing additional effort against incremental lift gained from work.

• Make decisions independently in accordance with department practices.

• Consistently provide direction and review others' analytical work.

• Begin to translate ambiguous business needs into analytical solutions.

• Provide support as necessary for initiatives across the Enterprise within the scope of influence.

Communication:

• Communicates on a regular basis with staff, peers and business partners and on an occasional basis with senior leaders.

• Tailors communication of analysis, project results, and other business initiatives to audience.

• Communicates technical topics to non-technical audiences.

• Leads group discussions with primary working group.

• Creates formal written communication such as memos or presentations.

• Able to influence and collaborate with peers and partners to take actions to enhance business outcomes.

Talent:

• Staff responsibilities are likely to include direct management of a small team of individual contributors.

• Acquisition, retention, and development of talent for assigned unit.

• Execute and communicate talent development processes, including performance and personal development goals.

• Succession planning and talent assessment recommendations.

• Performance management.

• Support staff engagement cross Enterprise initiatives.

• Mentor less experienced talent across the Enterprise.

• Onboard new employees and interns in unit.

• Support various training and skill development initiatives across Segment and the Enterprise.

• May provide support for recruiting efforts and candidate talent assessment efforts.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• College degree in STEM related field.

• Associate Actuarial Credential.

• 8+ years of quantitative analysis experience.

• Strong understanding of insurance products and industry.

• Demonstrated ability in actuarial and quantitative analysis and statistical concepts.

• Leadership experience.

• Excellent communication, collaboration and relationship-building skills.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present and translate complex information to leadership and non-technical teams.

• Strong PC skills (MS Office) and programming skills (eg. SQL, SAS).

Leadership:

• Begins to challenge conventional thinking.

• Takes ownership of projects related to strategic initiatives and often makes independent recommendations to influence business outcomes.

• Proficient in Leading Self including exhibiting decisiveness and self-awareness while also effectively managing ambiguity.

• Development of Leading Others including modeling the way for others and leading cross-unit projects.

• Initial development of Leading the Business including actively engaging in driving business results, broad thinking and promoting an Enterprise culture.

Business Acumen:

• Has an in-depth understanding and knowledge of certain key business drivers and disciplines such as: underwriting, products, reinsurance, distribution, sales, operations, risk control, claim, and financials.

• Able to effectively utilize this business knowledge in developing and implementing analytic solutions.

• Has perspective on the industry and developing trends, including: technology, analytic methodology, products, and performance of competitors.

• Is familiar with most other key business drivers and disciplines.

Relationship Management:

• Proactively build and own professional business relationships across the Enterprise.

• Generate and solicit ideas, and drive consensus.

• Aware of potential conflict and address proactively.

• Acknowledge accomplishments of others to broader organization.

• Set and manage expectations with business partners for portfolio of projects.

• Understand diverse perspectives to effectively accomplish business goals.

Quantitative Analysis:

• Able to introduce innovative techniques to both new and existing problems.

• Independently perform and implement complex analytics.

• Leads and actively engages in technical/peer reviews.

• Regularly offers technical consultative feedback.

• Can assess various technical solutions to optimize analytical outcomes.

• Occasionally recognizes emerging issues that require a quantitative solution within own portfolio of work.

What is a Must Have?

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience.

• 5 years of comprehensive quantitative analysis experience.