Actuarial Business Insights Lead

**Why you'll love working with Tower**

At Tower, we live and breathe our values - they are at the heart of every interaction. **Our people come first, **we pride ourselves on creating a diverse and inclusive space that allows our people to thrive. Encouraging everyone to bring their whole selves to work, we aim to represent the diverse communities we work in and with. We celebrate all ages, genders, sexual orientations, races, religions, and everything else that helps to make our culture special. We are proud holders of the Rainbow and DV Free Ticks which are important to us.

We also have a plan to lead our industry forward into a more customer-centric future with innovation and disruptive thinking, as a unique Kiwi and Pacific insurance provider operating for over 150 years, with roots all the way back to Dunedin.

**What will you be doing?**

As Actuarial Business Insights Lead, you will play a key role in positively impacting our business through influencing Tower's strategic direction by turning portfolio data, reporting, and analyses into actionable insights to adopt and embed across the business.

Reporting directly to the Head of Underwriting, you will work with a wide variety of teams across the organisation, by understanding the financial levers across all aspects of Tower's risk portfolios and operational processes, you will contribute to the success of Tower's Product, Pricing and Underwriting practices and facilitate superior business growth and profitability

You can expect to be across the following:

- Lead portfolio monitoring, reporting, analytics, and portfolio recommendations across all of Tower's insurance portfolios, within both New Zealand and the Pacific
- Collaborate with different teams across the business, including Finance, Claims and Reserving, to truly understand financial and operational performance for each portfolio and for the business as a whole.
- Utilise your broad understanding of Tower's performance and the insurance markets it operates in to propose and gain approval for pricing, underwriting and proposition changes to continually meet performance and strategic targets
- Work with Pricing, Underwriting and Technology teams to successfully implement approved changes, complete the feedback loop, and ensure the business continues to evolve in line with its strategic ambitions
- Inspire, develop and support Product, Pricing and Underwriting colleagues in their day to day work through data-related performance insights
- Motivate teams, build strong capabilities, and develop talent

**What you'll need**

**To be successful in this role, you will also be able to demonstrate the following**:

- 5+ years' experience in the General Insurance industry or within an insurance-related Actuarial role
- Familiarity and understanding of insurance performance measures, including insurance P&L's, Capital and Solvency
- Strong problem-solving skills and interests
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) is a must. Familiarity with PowerBI would be a benefit, but not essential
- Strong collaborative and influencing skills. Confidence working with a variety of teams
- Ability to share insights through different mediums, including formal papers and presentations to senior and executive business leaders
- Strategic thinking, developing medium to long term roadmaps for delivering stable and sustainable financial performance
- Training and mentoring junior team members

We pride ourselves on encouraging everyone to bring their whole selves to work, and we embrace diverse opinions, experience and backgrounds. Making sure **we** **are doing what's right**.

**What we'll bring to the table**

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a range of perks and benefits to celebrate and look after our Tower employees.

**Highlights include**:

- ** Our people come first** as we offer 16 weeks of paid leave for the primary carer and 4 weeks of paid leave partner's leave.
- A paid day off on your birthday, as well as two extra annual leave days every year and the option to buy an additional eight days of leave. So up to six weeks off
- Annual Performance Review where you get to showcase your progression.
- Wellness leave instead of sick leave so you can proactively look after your health and wellbeing
- Career growth - we promote internal capability; we also have programmes that recognise star performers.
- Flexible workplace opportunities at our beautiful 6 Green Star Fanshawe St office packed with modern technologies, stand-up desks, open space and coffee machines in two large modern kitchens with cafe-inspired dining areas.
- Discounts on Tower insurance products of up to 50%
- Free Life Insurance of up to four times your annual base salary
- Paid parental leave top up for 16 weeks.
- Retail deals and discounts with Les Mills, JB Hi-Fi, PB Tech, The Coffee Club, Warehouse Stationery and more