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<div class="mds-edited-text mds-font-body-copy-bulk"><p>There is a huge amount of business change caused by disruption, including technology, regulation, or a factor in the broader environment such as Brexit and that gives rise to risk and uncertainty. Helping our clients identify and address those risks to give them and their stakeholders confidence in their business is the purpose of our new Risk Assurance Line of Service. As a business, we have been providing services related to risk within our wider Assurance practice. On 1 July 2020, we established this new Line of Service to better use the scale and breadth of our practice including many of the firm’s experts in areas including actuarial, risk modelling, accounting, regulation, cyber security, listings, and controls.</p><p></p><p><b><b>About FSTRC</b></b></p><p></p><p> The world of Risk and Regulation is changing;  join us on the journey and be part of creating a customer focussed, technology and data enabled, insurance industry.</p><p>Our risk &amp; regulatory team is made up of over 80 partners and 1300 professional staff and our number and capabilities are expanding every day.   </p><p>We are growing our “Financial Services Technology Enabled Risk &amp; Compliance” (FSTRC) team to meet client demand to advise on a wide variety of data &amp; tech enabled, risk, conduct &amp; business issues. </p><p> </p><p>Within the Insurance Sector, and our Risk Modelling Services Division, this includes supporting our Personal and Commercial Lines clients in a ranges of services: </p><ul><li><p>Product Design &amp; Pricing </p></li><li><p>Underwriting Analytics &amp; MI </p></li><li><p>Enhancing Customer Outcomes &amp; Consumer Duty </p></li><li><p>Impacts on Portfolio Strategy and execution of that strategy</p></li><li><p>Risk Modelling</p></li><li><p>Regulatory Modelling</p></li></ul><p></p><p>Given the FCA’s continued focus on Conduct &amp; Consumer Duty for Personal and SME customers, and market pressures, we expect this to be a key growth area for the insurance segment and our actuarial team in the next 3-5 years.   Importantly, Data Insights and Technology are now a cornerstone of modern financial services, present at all stages of the customer journey and growing in complexity.  </p><p></p><p>We are looking for a senior leader to bring “at the coalface” experience of using models, analytics and technology in Underwriting &amp; Pricing, Product Development &amp; Design and Consumer Duty.  This is a pivotal role which is key to us staying relevant to our clients, growing our business and our position as the leading UK actuarial consultancy. </p><p> </p><p><b><b>About the role</b></b></p><p></p><p> You will play a key role in our Personal &amp; Commercial lines leadership team, developing our data and technology enabled propositions and services, with a focus on underwriting, pricing and consumer duty.  </p><p></p><p>You will work with our existing team of approximately 100 actuaries, technologists, regulatory experts and risk model specialists to build on our current portfolio of projects across underwriting and pricing, underwriting strategy, product design and consumer duty.   </p><p></p><p><u>This will include:</u></p><ul><li><p>Underwriting </p></li><li><p>Pricing and price optimisation</p></li><li><p>Data Analytics </p></li><li><p>Product Design</p></li><li><p>Portfolio Management and Performance Monitoring </p></li><li><p>Data Augmentation </p></li><li><p>Consumer Duty / Customer Outcomes </p></li><li><p>Process transformation  </p></li></ul><p><b>​</b></p><p></p><p><b><b>Essential skills and experience</b></b></p><ul><li><p>Extensive experience in dealing day-to-day with underwriters, pricing actuaries, product managers, sales and marketing, senior stakeholder management. </p></li><li><p>Credibility from the outset with senior management and leadership teams, being very credible and able to “talk the talk”. </p></li><li><p>Experience in focussing on customer outcomes and policyholder protection, balancing against commercial objectives. </p></li><li><p>Experience of technology deployment together with knowledge of traditional pricing and challenger pricing models, data augmentation and analytics and InsurTech solutions</p></li><li><p>Integrate and embed a strong culture of technology and data-led thinking, supporting risk reduction and enabling rapid business insights, transformation and innovation</p></li><li><p>Ability to develop good client/internal client handling skills, including relationship-building skills that lead to increased consulting opportunities</p></li><li><p>External profile an existing reputation in the market through a combination of industry and professional networks and public work/papers </p></li><li><p>Exceptional communication skills, with particular emphasis on communicating technical complexity to both technical and non-technical audiences</p></li><li><p>Strong people management and client relationship skills including inter-personal sensitivity, influencing and negotiation skills</p></li></ul><p></p><p><b><b>Desirable skills and experience</b></b></p><ul><li><p>Actuary or similar professional qualification</p></li><li><p>Knowledge of at least one of the following Duck Creek, EMBLEM, DuckCreek, TPS, etc </p></li><li><p>Experience of pricing enhancement and change management</p></li><li><p>Familiar with recent regulatory and conduct developments</p></li><li><p>Experience communicating with regulators.</p></li></ul><p>​</p><p><b><b>Who we’re looking for</b></b></p><ul><li><p>We are seeking a Senior Director with experience in Front Office or Risk with a focus on technology and data enablers in Underwriting, Portfolio Management, Pricing &amp; Consumer Duty/ Customer Outcomes </p></li></ul><br /><p><strong>Risk</strong> <br />Risk is all around us and in our complex world, is changing all the time. Our teams bring people from diverse backgrounds together, using their skills and cutting-edge technology, to help solve complex problems. We are pioneers in a world of changing risk and our market leading services build resilient organisations. Join us and together, we can support our clients to rethink risk.</p><br /><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Not the role for you?</strong><br />Did you know PwC offers flexible career arrangements and contract work? <a href="https://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/flexible-contractor-careers.html" rel="no-follow">Learn more</a>.<br /><br /><strong>The skills we look for</strong><br />The PwC Professional is our global framework for defining and encouraging leadership at all levels. <a href="http://www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply" rel="no-follow">Learn more</a>.<br /><br /><strong>The Deal</strong><br />&lsquo;The Deal&rsquo;, our firmwide Employee Value Proposition&rsquo; empowers our people to be the best they can be. <a href="https://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/about-us/the-new-deal.html" rel="no-follow">Learn more</a>.<br /><br /><strong>Our commitment to you</strong><br />We&rsquo;re committed to building a culture that empowers all of our people to thrive and feel a sense of belonging at PwC. <a href="http://www.pwc.com/uk/diversity." rel="no-follow">Learn more</a>.<br /><br /><strong>Application support</strong><br />If you&rsquo;re a person with a disability, if you&rsquo;re neurodivergent, or if you have a condition that you believe may affect your performance during our selection process, we&rsquo;ll be happy to make reasonable adjustments to our processes for you.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/experienced-careers/apply/applying-with-a-disability.html" rel="no-follow">Learn more</a>.</p><img src="https://www.applytracking.com/tp/rj6.qAfs2-J-K" rel="no-follow" />