Junior Pricing Actuary

Job Purpose

In order to reach Pricing Excellence, you will use programming skills to prepare data, statistical modeling expertise and analytical knowledge. Finally, your business knowledge of Japanese insurance market will be a key element to deliver predictive models valuable for our insurance products.

Key Qualifications

Requirements (1): Technical skills, Job experiences
Technical skills: Must have:
・Programming language (SQL, SAS, Python or R. Or any similar language)
・Mathematical thinking
・Japanese insurance business knowledge
・Office (Excel, PowerPoint, )

Job experience: Nice to have:
・A first experience in insurance or in an analytical work involving manipulating numbers is appreciated.
・Any experience in Kaggle (or any other Data Science platform) competition is a plus.

Requirements (2): Behavior, Competency
・Rigorous
・Clear communication (capable to explain technical concepts to non-specialist audience)
・Innovative mindset (capable to challenge current methodology)
・Team player
・Strong appetite for learning

Requirements (3): Certificate, Education background
・Bachelors degree or above in one of those fields: Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science
・Actuarial exams are a plus.

Requirements (4): Language skills
・Japanese: Native or Fluent (JPLT N3 level minimum)
・English: reading + writing: mandatory / speaking: nice to have

Responsibility

Key Accountabilities
【Technical price modeling】
・ Predict the occurrence of accident and the average amount of the claims, using past data
・ Improve the current methodology by introducing Data Science methodology into traditional actuarial models

【Customer behavior modeling】
・ Predict the probability for a prospect to buy an insurance contract

【Market analysis】
・ Analyze insurance market trend