Start date: To be confirmed / agreed
Type of contract: Fixed 6 months contract / Full time.
Salary: £27,000pa (prorated for the duration of the contract)
Working arrangements:The successful applicant will work onsite from our offices in Merchants House, Crook St, Chester, CH1 2BE.
Who are Matblas?
We are a specialist pricing and underwriting management consultancy that works with a wide range of clients from the insurance industry.
Since 2007 we have helped hundreds of clients/underwriters improve their workflow, create a consistent pricing framework, generate big data, and better understand and present their numbers.
We provide our clients with wide-ranging software solutions from off-the-shelf standard pricing applications to bespoke integrated systems. Our IT solutions are designed with the ultimate user in mind.
Who are we looking for
MatBlas is looking for a graduatewith a degree in mathematics, physics, statistics, or actuarial science to work with the team, designing and implementing efficient pricing processes for their clients.
The successful candidate will join our high-performance insurance academy, a hands-on training programme that covers a combination of technical, business, and soft skills that are directly implemented in the day-to-day job.
Skills, experience & attributes you will need
* You are ambitious, a forward thinker with a graduate degree in mathematics, physics, statistics or actuarial science, or another analytical subject.
* Academic or practical experience in programming languages such as R or Python would be a plus.
* Good working knowledge of all Microsoft Office tools is a must, though Excel/VBA training would be offered if required.
* You are driven to take on challenging problems and propose efficient and creative solutions.
* Your organisation skills would allow you to simultaneously work on multiple projects.
* You are rigorous, and quality-conscious, with a desire to learn on your own and as part of a group.
* Confident, self-motivated, and accountable with excellent written and oral communication skills.
Day-to-day responsibilities
* Working directly with our managing director reviewing, designing, and deploying pricing frameworks and tools for a wide range of insurance classes of business
* Initially hosting the proposed pricing framework in functional and user-friendly Excel spreadsheets for underwriters’ user testing. Then working with our team of software engineers to transfer models to a web-based pricing platform.
* Research and prepare training material on specific topics related to the pricing models being developed. This would include extensive market research into historic and current market conditions.
* Prepare and maintain technical documentation and user manuals for handover to clients upon completion of projects.
* Carry out exposure and claims analysis of historic performance to make pricing recommendations and recalibrate pricing parameters.
* Assist in the marketing and development of social media campaigns for MatBlas and our online technical academy. You would be an ambassador of our high-performance insurance academy.
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