Job Summary
- Manage quotations for business, and ensure solutions are relevant and commercially attractive to clients while ensuring adherence to local guidelines and satisfying SCOR’s profitability requirements
- Evaluate pricing KPIs for Japan life & Health protection reinsurance opportunities using pricing tools (Prophet, Excel etc.).
- Support Financial Solution team to provide biometric risk best estimate assumptions as required.
- Monitor the actual results of new business booked in Japan, provide experience analysis and report it to related department as required.
- Produce analysis which supports pricing activity, enhances knowledge and aids product development
- Establish an effective network amongst Japanese life insurance product, pricing and finance actuaries while creating a strong awareness of SGL’s expertise in traditional life insurance, financial solutions and capital management techniques.
- Negotiate with local clients in Japan to finalize pricing quotes and support marketing team to develop treaty documents.
- Communicate with related teams in SCOR Life & Health regional offices (Singapore, Hong Kong etc.).
- Work with local pricing, underwriting, business development teams.
- Support Business Development team to have a presentation or a seminar for clients regarding the latest actuarial topics.
Required experience & competencies
More than 5 years of relevant actuarial experience in life/non-life insurance, life reinsurance or life consulting work in Japan, preferably with emphasis on business development, product development and/or financial management.
Specific knowledge of actuarial topics.
Commitmment to deliver the outputs on time.
Ideally, Experience of using some actuarial software (Prophet, Axis etc.).
Ability to work collaboratively and communicate well with colleagues and management in Japan office and SCOR international network.
Ability to manage several tasks simultaneously.
Required Education
Qualified member of any Institute of Actuaries
Undergraduate degree or equivalent in financial discipline
As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying “The Art & Science of Risk,” SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.
Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.
As an international company, our common culture is defined by “The SCOR Way.” Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.
SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.
Skills Required
- More than 5 years of relevant actuarial experience in life/non-life insurance, life reinsurance or life consulting work in Japan
- Qualified member of any Institute of Actuaries
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent in financial discipline
- Specific knowledge of actuarial topics
- Ideally, Experience of using some actuarial software (Prophet, Axis etc.)
What We Do
SCOR, one of the world’s largest reinsurers, serves more than 5,000 clients worldwide, providing a diversified and innovative range of solutions to control and manage risk. SCOR delivers advanced financial solutions, analytics and services across all dimensions of risk in Life & Health, Property & Casualty, and Investments. Reinsurance lies at the intersection of technical expertise and scientific progress. Models, data, and pricing and reserving tools are essential, yet they are never sufficient on their own. Sound risk decisions require expert judgment, experience and perspective. This is what we call the Art and Science of Risk. Reinsurance is a knowledge industry, where expertise grows through accumulation, transmission and practice. Across the Group, 3,600 experts based in more than 35 offices worldwide contribute to this collective intelligence. Actuaries, underwriters, risk management specialists, and Tech & Data experts transform data into insight, explore extreme scenarios, define the boundaries of insurability and help anticipate emerging risks. Together, they strengthen the resilience of SCOR, our clients and the societies we serve. This expertise is built through shared experience,continuous questioning and collective reflection. Like artists, we belong to schools of thought, learning first to observe, then to replicate, and ultimately to innovate. This ongoing transmission of knowledge enables SCOR to develop a distinctive approach, combining rigor, creativity and long-term vision in the service of risk mastery. This shared commitment underpins SCOR’s role as a global reinsurer. By turning risk into resilience and sustainable value, our collective of experts acts with responsibility and purpose. Together, we help protect the future, and shape it, for our clients, for society and for generations to come.
