Senior Manager

Responsibilities

Client-Facing Delivery and Advisory

• Act as senior actuary and trusted adviser to client(s) on treaty pricing, portfolio profitability and reinsurance structuring.
• Price and review casualty and specialty treaty business - excess of loss, quota share and structured covers - including layer pricing, reinstatements, sliding-scale and profit commissions, loss corridors, aggregate deductibles and limits, indexation/stability clauses, and ECO/XPL considerations.
• Lead technical discussions with Chief Actuaries, CUOs, underwriters and brokers; present and defend assumptions, methodology and results to boards, reinsurance committees and regulators.
• Translate technical output into commercial recommendations - pricing adequacy, risk-adjusted rate change, structure optimisation, retention and limit strategy.
• Support clients through renewal cycles including submission review, data diagnostics, benchmark analysis and post-renewal portfolio reporting.
• Own engagement quality: scoping, methodology, documentation standards and adherence to professional and regulatory expectations.

Capability and Service Development

• Define and help in growing Xceedance’s reinsurance pricing propositions — identifying where we can create differentiated value for reinsurers/brokers globally, and turning that into productised, repeatable service lines.
• Build and industrialise the toolkit: exposure and experience rating frameworks, ILF and exposure curve libraries, frequency-severity and aggregate loss models, trend and on-levelling approaches, and benchmarking datasets.
• Partner with our data, technology and AI teams to embed automation and analytics into pricing workflows — reducing cycle time and improving consistency across engagements.
• Commercial Growth and Client Development
• Support sales and account leadership shaping propositions, contributing to RFP and pitch responses, scoping engagements and pricing our own services.
• Grow existing accounts by identifying adjacent needs across pricing, reserving, capital and portfolio analytics.
• Own commercial accountability for your book: revenue, utilisation, margin and client satisfaction.

People Leadership and Talent Development

• Lead, coach and grow a distributed team of actuaries, analysts and students in the team.
• Set the technical bar and build reinsurance pricing depth in the wider team through structured training, casework, review cycles and knowledge assets.
• Help in building an inclusive, high-performance culture with clear feedback, visible career paths and strong retention of specialist talent.

Qualifications

• Qualified actuary — Fellow of the IFoA, CAS (FCAS) or Institute of Actuaries of India, or equivalent recognised body, in good standing.
• 8 to 12 years’ reinsurance pricing experience, with demonstrable depth in (preferred):
• Casualty treaty — excess liability/umbrella, commercial and personal auto liability, general liability, professional and financial lines, workers’ compensation or motor bodily injury.
• Specialty treaty — energy (upstream/downstream, physical damage and BI), surety and credit, and/or marine, aviation, construction, political risk, terror or cyber.
• London Market and/or Bermuda reinsurance experience — gained at a reinsurer, Lloyd’s syndicate, broker (analytics/reinsurance advisory) or consultancy, with genuine familiarity with market practice, submission quality, broker dynamics and the renewal calendar.
• Strong command of core pricing technique: exposure rating and curve selection, experience rating and development to ultimate, loss trend and on-levelling, frequency-severity modelling, aggregate distributions, credibility weighting, and treatment of large and latent claims.
• Proven client-facing track record — owning senior relationships, presenting to executive and board audiences, and handling technical challenge with credibility.
• Demonstrated project and engagement management capability: multiple concurrent workstreams, distributed teams, tight renewal deadlines, clear commercial and quality accountability.
• Genuine people leadership experience — building, developing and retaining actuarial teams, not just directing task delivery.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication; able to make complex actuarial reasoning land with underwriters, executives and non-technical stakeholders.

Required Skills

• Client-facing delivery and advisory skills.
• Technical pricing expertise.
• Project management capabilities.
• People leadership and development skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience in the London Market and/or Bermuda reinsurance.
• Familiarity with data analytics and automation in pricing workflows.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Xceedance is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.