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Your work environment:
The headquarters of the AXA Group (GIE AXA) brings together our corporate activities. It provides guidance and support to subsidiaries around the world, to ensure the coordination and monitoring of the Group's global strategy, the application of its standards, the consistency of commercial approaches and the sharing of best practices. The headquarters gathers approximately 1000 employees and is distinguished by its strong international culture (45 nationalities), which makes it a rich and stimulating place to work.
Within the Group, you will join the Group Underwriting department, whose responsibility is to optimize the technical performance of AXA’s product offering while ensuring technical risks are well understood and under control.
Within this Department, you will be part of the team Individual Life and Inforce Life Saving team, in charge of driving Inforce and Individual Life&Saving technical excellence at Group Level.
Job purpose
Evaluate technical performance of Life and Saving product range around the world, drive product technical excellence at Group level and help operational companies implement product-related initiatives
Key capabilities
- Ability to work transversally in a large organisation and align multiple stakeholders at all levels
- Highly self-motivated with a high level of autonomy and ability to effectively prioritise
- Ability to effectively convey complex issues into clear and easy-to-understand oral or written presentations in perfect English
- Ability to relate technical metrics to commercial objectives and communicate these objectives effectively to a diverse range of stakeholders including Group senior management.
- Comfortable with complexity and unstructured problem solving
Key accountabilities
- Evaluate technical performance of L&S product range
- Conduct In-Depth Reviews of AXA subsidiaries’ L&S product ranges (unit linked, general accounts, pure protection products). Key objectives are assessment of the quality of new business, identification of technical issues and comparison to Group standards, as well as monitoring the implementation of associated action plans, using written, oral, and interpersonal techniques depending on the situation.
- Lead Product Reviews of AXA subsidiaries’ L&S products, focussing on the financial assessment of these products using industry and AXA specific metrics, especially IFRS17, and Solvency II-type measures, as well as broader product development assessments.
- At Group level, provide technical support in the definition of the AXA Group strategy, ensure relevance of the financial KPIs at product level, and support appropriate monitoring of financial and actuarial metrics.
- Help AXA’s subsidiaries resolve local technical issues (commercial, product, actuarial or risk management) and implement remedial actions
- Provide technical support to AXA’s subsidiaries on local technical issues where headquarters assistance brings added value.
- Lead and actively contribute to expert working groups across entities, and ensure best practice sharing and knowledge management in relation to L&S products and pricing.
- Drive product technical excellence at Group level
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of the standards and guidelines relating to L&S product design, product management and pricing, and their implementation in entities.
- Provide benchmarks for technical excellence in the form of advice, guidance notes, tools and training in actuarial and product subject areas.
- Contribute Expert Group communities
- Contribute actively to the expert Group communities involving operational entities and Corporate center teams. Identify and disseminate best practices across operational entities and provide systematic group support via benchmarks, advice, guidance notes, tools and training.
Key relationships in AXA Group
- Group Underwriting Committee
- Group Risk Management departments
- Finance departments
- Local Heads of Life, Actuarial Function Holders, Chief Risk Officers and L&S technical specialists in local subsidiaries
Your Profile
Background:
- 10-15+ years of experience within life, savings and investments products as an actuary, preferably including experience in more than one country
Technical skills:
- Comprehensive knowledge of life, savings and investment products design, management and pricing methodologies and tools
- In-depth understanding of life, savings and investment product valuation and solvency principles
- IFRS and financial reporting knowledge desirable
About AXA
Why AXA ? Every day, we work together for human progress by protecting what matters. A mission that puts a smile on your face and makes you want to get up in the morning !
One of the world's leading insurers in the protection of property, people and assets, AXA is 145,000 employees and contributors who are committed to our customers on a daily basis, 51 countries in which we distribute our products and services and more than 90 million customers who place their trust in us worldwide. As a responsible corporate citizen, AXA is committed to social and environmental causes on a daily basis. We are committed to an inclusive policy that recognizes and values individual differences. Do these ambitions speak to you ? Then come and change the world with us !
About the Entity
The headquarters of the AXA Group is based in Paris - La Défense (Majunga Tower) and brings together the Group's corporate activities. It is distinguished by its strong international culture.
What We Offer
You will join:
- A responsible company, towards people, including its employees and customers, and towards the planet
- A company with strong values
- A company promoting internal mobility and the training of its employees
- A company offering many benefits (learn more here: Reward & Benefits | AXA Group)
- A flexible company, allowing hybrid work, in the office and from home.
The information provided by applicants will be treated as strictly confidential and used for recruitment purposes only.
