Join RSA and make a difference every day. 

Whether you are just beginning your career or looking to take the next progressive step in your journey, RSA Insurance is an organization where you can be yourself, learn and develop and a place where your ideas and contributions matter.  

With offices in Belfast, Galway, and Dublin, we have embraced hybrid work empowering our people to work flexibly and to suit their individual needs, which enables them to deliver great service to the customers we look after every day. Our Dublin office is also home to our sister-company 123.ie.        

At RSA and 123.ie we empower our customers to make a difference in their lives. And the same goes for our employees. We are proud to have 32 different nationalities represented in our workforce. Our diverse customer base benefits from the diverse perspectives of our teams that serve them, solving complex problems with creative ideas. 

 As proud member of the Intact family, we’re part of something bigger with a presence in North America, the UK, and Europe. Our business has grown organically and through acquisitions to over $21 billion of total annual premiums. 

We want you to thrive and grow with us – and we’ll give you all the tools, flexibility and learning opportunities you need to do it.

 And, if you bring your best, then we promise to give you, our best. 

Culture and Community 

 RSA is a purpose-driven business – our purpose is to ‘help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times, and be resilient in bad times’.  

 We do that by living our values – Integrity, Respect, Customer-driven, Excellence, and Generosity – in everything that we do. 

 We provide an open and honest workplace – where everybody contributes, and every view is listened-to and respected.  

 Generosity is in our DNA and is the value that guides and enables our people to help others, protect the environment and make our communities more resilient. It drives our efforts to care for people and to give our time, financial resources and talent. We’re also committed to helping society adapt to a changing climate taking reasonable care to ensure that our business activities are conducted in an environmentally sustainable manner.  

Our stats don’t lie… in our annual engagement survey  

87% of our people celebrate the diversity in their teams and the wider company  

90% of our people feel safe to speak up and share if they’ve made a mistake  

91% of our people feel valued and respected by leadership  

89% of our people are benefiting and thriving through our hybrid working model 

Pricing Actuary

This job involves pricing Personal Lines Home or Motor products (as required). This can include proposing and building the front-end pricing rates and structures for Home or Motor across all Intermediated and Direct (123.ie) channels using Actuarial techniques helping to ensure the achievement of Op plan.

The individual may also be required to perform actuarial peer review for work completed by others within the wider team. The individual will be available for leading projects, deep dives, ad hoc reviews, Radar or model builds, and support strategy conversations and considerations.

The individual will be involved with proposing new pricing techniques and will also appreciate all aspects of GLMs, GBMs, claims trending analyses and technical price and all the associated complexities and aspects of back end to front end pricing as well as ensuring any impact on the end customer is appropriately considered.

Key Responsibilities:

• Building, maintaining, improving, relevant/required Radar Models – those involved in NB and Renewal pricing, MTA pricing and reporting and all associated Emblem models.
• Leveraging external data sources to further enhance front end rating.
• Influence and contribute to the overall strategy of Personal Lines Pricing.
• Assist in the monitoring of rate leakage and actual versus expected reviews.
• Striving for technical excellence and constantly improving all aspects associated with pricing sophistication. Helping to ensure planned CORs are achieved through the successful application of required/planned rate changes and rating improvements.
• Champion machine learning techniques and identify areas for development.
• Work with Actuarial to specify and review claims models to meet business needs and requirements, ensuring methods and assumptions used are appropriate and consistent with relevant Group/Regional guidelines and reflect regulatory requirements.
• Completion of peer reviews for analyses, rate change proposals, model builds etc.
• Building and maintaining effective working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Leading and contributing towards the development of less experienced colleagues to raise standards and expertise across the team and the wider business.
• Actively contributing to the development of propositions, and associated sales planning and account development, bringing knowledge and insight of the market and its risks, proactively identifying opportunities to increase penetration of existing customers and / or expand the business mix.
• Represent Pricing and contribute as required to any cross functional projects, teams, or developments.
• Adhere to RSAII's Personal Lines Pricing Policy, RSA's Risk Management Framework and relevant regulation within all work completed.
• Organise and assist with the preparation of any reviews, forecasts, analysis, KPIs, models etc for use in business decision making.

Requirements:

• Qualified Actuary with 3 years PQE with good capability in pricing and analytics
• Mathematical or statistics 3rd level qualification or equivalent
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, Intermediate knowledge of Word, PowerPoint, and SAS or SQL
• Knowledge of pricing tools EMBlem, Radar and GLM/GBM modelling techniques
• Based in Dublin

RSA Insurance Ireland DAC and its affiliate companies consider applicants on the basis of qualifications and without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, disability or any other legally protected status.