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Through robust reserving expertise and data-driven decision making, you will play a critical role in supporting the continued growth, profitability, and long-term success of the business.\nYou will be accountable for the development, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of CFC's reserving framework, ensuring the delivery of timely, accurate, and insightful reserve analyses to senior stakeholders across the organisation. As the lead actuarial representative externally, you will build and maintain strong relationships with key partners, articulating and presenting CFC's underwriting performance and reserving position with confidence and credibility.\nWorking as part of the broader Performance Management function, you will collaborate closely with colleagues across Underwriting, Claims, Finance, and Data & AI to strengthen portfolio oversight, enhance data quality and governance, and embed robust management information and analytics to support informed business decision-making and performance optimisation.\nKey Responsibilities\nReserving leadership & delivery\nLead quarterly reserve reviews, ensuring timely and accurate delivery of reserving results.\nEnsure reserving results are well documented and communicated for quarterly reporting.\nInput to CFC MGA’s accrual of Profit Commission in the Profit Commission Forum.\nStakeholder management\nExplain reserving results, claims trends and uncertainty ranges to senior internal stakeholders to support decision-making and performance management. \nAct as the primary actuarial point of contact for carrier and capacity providers’ actuarial teams, delivering transparent analyses to support discussions.\nEngage with the actuarial teams from CFC Syndicate’s external managing agency, SAO actuaries and auditors to provide input into and review their analysis.\nPortfolio insight & business partnering\nWork closely with Underwriting to understand CFC’s business and deliver portfolio insights that clearly identify profitable growth opportunities or remediation actions.\nAnalyse CFC’s rich data set and work with Underwriting, Claims and Data & AI to identify and source emerging claims indicators that drive underwriting performance.\nPartner with Underwriting and Pricing/Performance teams to link reserve outcomes to pricing adequacy, rate change and portfolio steering.\nDevelop and monitor a suite of consistent, accurate KPIs to support identification of strategic opportunities and portfolio optimisation decisions.\nHelp set and monitor risk appetites and risk tolerances to ensure delivery against the business plan.\nGovernance, controls & documentation\n Set reserving policy, control framework and documentation standards.\n Maintain robust model governance and ensure adherence to actuarial standards and internal risk controls. \nDevelop and maintain repeatable and granular reserving and performance reporting \nPeople management and culture\nLead, coach and develop a high-performing reserving team; 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