UK Reserving Manager - Hybrid or remote from UK

Wakam is a B2B2C insurer that designs white-labelinsurance products for its partners (insurance specialists and nonspecialists). These insurance products have the distinctive featureof being embedded in the products or services offered to the endcustomer (for example, if you take out a self-service scooter 🛴,you're automatically insured). Wakam is present in 32 Europeancountries. By 2022, we will have achieved over 60% of our salesoutside France, which is why we are recruiting Wakamees who speakEnglish. Our culture? Free to impact. A culture where anything ispossible, where all ideas are considered, where everyone has animpact on the transformation of insurance! Looking for freedom?Thirsting for autonomy? If you're intrepid and like a challengechallenge, Wakam is for you!     As a Reserving Manager,you will play a pivotal role in our organization, collaboratingwith various UK teams, including central teams in France. Yourmission & key responsibilities : Your main role will be toensure the accuracy of statutory and prudential reserves for our UKbusiness P&C (mainly motor, property and affinity) inparticular, aligning with Solvency UK requirements. Reporting toour UK Chief Actuary and fostering collaboration with our centraland local teams, your key responsibilities in this role include : Reserving Expertise : Utilize your strong reserving background foraccurate and fair statutory and prudential reserve calculations.Innovation and Insight : Review and advocate for process updates toenhance efficiency and effectiveness. Define innovative analyses tounderstand emerging risks. Collaborate with other teams to improveinsight provided by the reserving team, more specifically with theclaims teams. Clear Communication & collaborative leadership : Lead the reserving process, ensuring alignment with our company'sstandards, and foster collaboration with various teams. Effectivelyconvey complex technical subjects to non-technical team members,ensuring mutual understanding and consensus on critical topics.Lead interactions with other areas of the business to ensureaccurate results. Make clear recommendations for management action.Engage with external parties, including regulators and auditors.Solvency requirements : Act in accordance with UK Solvencyrequirements, including under the delegated authority of the ChiefActuary, and approve the fairness and accuracy of reserves for UKbusiness. Management and Analysis : Manage reserving projections andbe a key player on the data governance processes. Direct analysesconsidering outcomes on different bases, including GAAP, SolvencyII, etc. Your profile To excel in this role, you should have thefollowing qualifications and qualities : Significant experience inreserving. An actuarial background on P&C business, providingyou with the expertise needed for this role. Confidence and theability to take responsibility for ensuring accurate reserves.Accountability for delivery of outcomes. Impact-driven with a focuson improving processes and insights. Enjoy problem-solving andcritical thinking. Inquisitive mind and effective communication.High attention to detail and accuracy. Interview process Screeninginterview with Talent recruiter Manager interview with UK ChiefActuary Cross interview with France Chief Reserving & FranceReserving team lead HR interview with Head of Talent or VP People& Culture ->

Welcome at Wakam 🙌     Positiveenergy, agility, and team spirit are essential to support Wakam inits hyper-growth!   You have the Wakam mindset? Join us!      More about us Our culture? Free to impact. Aculture where everything is possible, where all ideas are takeninto consideration, where everyone has an impact on thetransformation of insurance! Hungry for freedom? Thirsty forautonomy? If you are adventurous and like challenges, then theWakam adventure might be made for you!   Discover -on ourwebsite- who we really are with the 11 cultural markers that sowell describe us!   What we are looking for Mindsetcompatibility with our ‘Free to Impact’ culture :   Think bigBiased for action Curious and eager to learn Can say no and findsolutions Aims for the moon (but please don’t stick on the moon)And above all : have fun working together 🤜🤛 ! Good to know Wakam isnot based on a hierarchy but on a methodology where everyone findshis role and knows his objectives. With a flat hierarchical systemand a highly collaborative operating model, Wakam is an extremelyagile and transparent company. Every last Friday of the month, it'sFree.day at Wakam, a day without meetings to take a step aside anddedicate ourselves to skills sponsorship or other activities(because we are curious, I remind you). Full-remote is a reality atWakam (there is even one Wakamee who works from his sailing boat ⛵)Last but not least : we are nice and we have fun! (you'll find outby yourself 😉)