The team
You will join our global Risk & Analytics Practice, a top-tier consulting group that works across many industries and creates value for clients by leveraging risk experts and analytical solutions to provide holistic risk management solutions. Risk is more volatile and complex than ever, and our clients rely on our team to enhance their competitive advantage by creating effective risk management strategies aligned with their corporate objectives. Our team operates as a global practice, collaborating with WTW Industry and Broking practice groups to provide an integrated and structured approach to risk management, combining risk consulting and quantification with the execution of a risk financing strategy.
Strategic Risk Consulting, part of the global Risk & Analytics Practice, supports our mission by delivering risk quantification, which involves using advanced modeling tools and analytics to measure and analyse all types of risk. This enables our clients to make informed financial decisions when it comes to effectively managing complex risks. The result is a new way of embracing risk that drives superior results.
Accelerate your career
At WTW, we prioritize development and coaching. Many of our colleagues have the opportunity to work internationally, lead teams, and collaborate across the organization. In this role, you will receive frequent mentoring from colleagues around the world and be assigned a senior colleague aligned to your career path that will help you grow and achieve your goals. Additionally, you will benefit from WTW global professional development programs specifically designed for our team of qualified actuaries.
WTW employs hundreds of individuals in a wide range of actuarial positions worldwide, offering vast opportunities for professional growth within the company.
How you will create value from risk for our clients
Based in Hong Kong and working alongside our global team of risk consultants, actuaries, accountants, climate specialists, and risk engineers, this role focuses on creating value for our clients by enhancing their approach to risk and becoming a trusted advisor.
Typically, you will work in teams of 2 - 4 consultants to define problems, quantify exposure, and create implementation roadmaps for sustainable risk financing improvements often in collaboration with broking colleagues.
You will lead the delivery of data-driven insightful analyses to some of the Asia’s largest and complex organizations. Your modelling skills will be used to help clients quantify their risk and develop risk transfer strategies that exploit arbitrage opportunities among mitigation, transfer, and retention levers and align risk decisions with financial strategy enhancing organizational resilience and maximizing performance. You will present results to client management, and you may be required to travel to client sites.
How you will approach projects
· Listen to the client and work with a team to define the problem.
· Leverage data, facts, analysis and colleagues to propose an innovative solution.
· Develop a trusted relationship with key stakeholders.
· Work with a diverse team to deliver the project.
· Deliver and present a solution that satisfies key stakeholders and creates value for the client.
· Continuously improve your technical, communication and leadership skills.
Core responsibilities
· Design, structure and oversee modelling analysis for clients’ risks, both individually and on a portfolio-basis, by applying standard actuarial techniques as well as WTW proprietary tools.
· Develop a trusted advisor relationship with internal WTW client relationship managers and client contacts through effective communication and quality execution of projects.
· Collaborate with client-facing colleagues and clients to develop new business opportunities and broaden existing relationships.
· Present complex analytical studies and recommendations to clients effectively.
· Participate in Research & Development of new initiatives.
· This role includes financial KPIs and new business targets.
· Regional travel will be required.
If you enjoy being intellectually stimulated, working with people from diverse cultures and geographies, and deploying state-of-the-art tools and technology, we want to meet you.
What makes you stand out
· Strong, persuasive, client-facing communication skills.
· Able to demonstrate experience of designing and building actuarial loss forecast models for non-life insurance risks such as property and liability.
· Manage and exceed client expectations on the timeliness as well as delivery of results in reports and presentations.
· Experienced in preparing and presenting results and recommendations reports in clear, simple, actionable language.
· Exhibits intellectual curiosity and a positive attitude, along with the innovation and problem-solving abilities required to design bespoke risk consulting solutions and models for our clients.
· Ability to collaborate effectively in a team and foster an inclusive environment with individuals at all levels of the organization.
· Demonstrated track record of delivering consulting projects and building a client portfolio / project pipeline.
· Exceptional analytical, quantitative and conceptual problem-solving skills.
Qualifications and skills that will make you stand out
· Advanced graduate degree in business/economics or a quantitative discipline (statistics, mathematics, or physics) strongly preferred.
· Qualified actuary by recognized body, three years+ of post qualification experience.
· Experience in general insurance actuarial analysis required.
· Capital modelling, reserving and pricing experience would also be desirable.
· Consulting and/or sales experience would also be desirable.
· Excellent PowerPoint skills and attention to detail are essential.
· Spoken and written English must be at native speaker level. Cantonese and Mandarin are also desirable.
What can we offer you?
In return you will be rewarded with a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package including: a fantastic pension scheme, life insurance, medical insurance, flexible benefits and many other options and Corporate deals.
We also adopt a hybrid working arrangement, whereby a combination of work-from-home and in office is adopted.
WTW is an Equal Opportunity Employer
