Pricing Analyst recruitment
Role: Pricing Analyst
Duration: 6mths+
Location: London
Rate: £excellent market rate
Job Description
We are looking for senior pricing analysts who will work within the commercial underwriting pricing department; working closely with the relevant product managers and e-commerce team to deliver this exciting project.
Requirements
Degree in statistics/maths or previous experience in analytical roles. Excellent numerical skills. Strong data manipulation skills and advanced/intermediate knowledge of SAS and Excel. VB Access experience beneficial.
Good communicator capable of explaining clearly pricing decisions based on detailed analysis and influencing people
Experience in building products. This could either be an in-house build or a software house build (Acturis, OpenGI, SSP etc). The build may involve determining rates of an auto-rated product and include calculation of algorithm, rating tables, full-cycle rules (caps collars, renewals, MTC, MTA etc). Experience testing said product would be beneficial (i.e. building testpacks, creating testcases, output spreadsheet).
General pricing skills - has performed a number of pricing reviews so as to be comfortable with pricing functions without supervision (impact analysis, different rating structures/methodologies, testing).
Experience in auto rated insurance products; ideally this would be commercial Packages products, however other lines would be considered
Responsibilities
Review of current products and design of improved rating structures
Creating rating specifications, liasing with product managers, e-commerce and IT
Testing of new products: Building SAS rate calculator functionality to test rating of products or building functionality of full-cycle in SAS.
Being a pricing focal point to resolve any pricing issues; ensuring products go-live.