About us
Avencia Talent Solutions are exclusively recruiting on behalf of a leading Reinsurer who have a newly created position for a Portfolio Analyst to join their London office.
The role
We are looking for a commercially driven Portfolio Analyst to play a critical role in shaping underwriting performance through deep analytical insight and real-time portfolio intelligence.
Sitting at the centre of underwriting, pricing, reserving and claims, this role focuses on understanding what is driving performance today and ensuring those insights directly influence underwriting decisions tomorrow.
A key priority is building near real-time visibility of portfolio performance, including automated views of loss emergence and IBNR, enabling faster and more informed decision-making.
Key accountabilities
- Develop a best-in-class performance attribution framework across classes, segments, underwriting years and distribution sources.
- Analyse and communicate pricing adequacy vs actual performance, including risk-adjusted rate change
- Implement near-live portfolio monitoring incorporating automated IBNR and loss emergence signals.
- Lead large loss reviews and ensure rapid feedback into underwriting, claims, and broker engagement.
- Identify trends in short and long-tailed lines and translate into pricing, reserving and underwriting insight.
- Partner with underwriting and pricing teams to challenge assumptions and improve decisions.
- Feed insights into business planning, capital allocation and portfolio strategy.
Skills & experience
- Experience in portfolio analytics, actuarial or performance management within insurance/reinsurance
- Strong understanding of pricing adequacy and underwriting performance drivers
- Ability to translate complex analytics into clear, concise, commercial insight
- Experience with large datasets, automated reporting environments and a level of prompt engineering experience.
- Exposure to a cross-section of pricing, reserving and capital modelling
- Experience with real-time or near-real-time analytics and dashboards
