Pricing Actuary

About Avant

Avant is Australia's leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 125 years.

Avant now represents 80,000 health practitioners and medical students across every state and territory, delivering market leading products and services to meet their professional, personal and practice needs. Building on this heritage, our vision is to be the most trusted professional partner in supporting doctors throughout their lives and careers.

As a mutual organisation, owned by members and run purely for their benefit, our members are at the centre of all we do. As well as providing products and services to our member, we play a broader community role by advocating for improvements in the healthcare system and in quality, safety and professionalism in medicine, through delivering education and research activities.

An opportunity is available for a Pricing Actuary to join our Pricing and Analytics team in a full-time capacity for a 12-month fixed-term contract. This position will take a leading role in the Pricing and Analytics team in delivering Avant's pricing and portfolio management. The role also involves delivering internal actuarial analysis, advice and recommendations for a range of areas across Avant.

**Key activities in this role will include**:

- Take a leading role within the Pricing and Analytics team in delivering actuarial analysis and performance monitoring to support product pricing, portfolio management and optimisation of risk intervention outcomes.
- Deliver other actuarial and analytical services to the broader Avant business as required.
- Assist the Medical Indemnity Division to progressively drive an agenda of commerciality of the general insurance business and excellence in insurance management by delivering sustainable growth of the insurance portfolios and pro-actively reducing claims costs through risk intervention and the efficient use of medical defence costs.
- Mentor and develop junior team members, facilitating strong internal client relationships and ensuring quality, transparency, and consistency of actuarial and analytical advice.
- Support the development of the Pricing and Analytics team's vision and deliver Avant's approach to technical support for pricing and portfolio management, including reporting, monitoring and analysis.
- Associate or Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.
- Experience in general insurance highly regarded.
- Actuarial pricing and outstanding claims valuation (long tailed experience viewed positively).
- Experience in SQL.
- Experience in SAS or Python highly regarded.

Why work at Avant?

At Avant, our people are the centre of everything we do for our members. We offer a range of benefits and opportunities to enable you to make a difference, learn, and grow in your career.

We value our people by offering an inclusive workplace with a diverse range of benefits, flexible working options, career development, and internal mobility opportunities. Our flexible working arrangements are designed to enable genuine work-life balance.

Your development is our priority and we have a variety of learning and development programs that will support you in your career.

We offer support to our people via Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Health and Wellbeing programs, Tertiary Education Sponsorship and Support.

We have a diverse and connected work environment where your contribution and ideas will be valued and respected and make a real difference to the lives of others.

**Please note**: Avant Mutual is a vaccinated employer. Prior to the commencement of your employment by Avant, you are required to be fully vaccinated against the Covid-19 virus or have a medical certificate stating that you cannot receive a Covid-19 vaccination for valid medical reasons.