Senior Analyst, Research & Development - RSA Group - Toronto, ON

Keeping You Moving

RSA Group, including Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Company of Canada (“RSA Canada”), is one of the world’s leading multinational insurance groups with over 300 years of experience and over 20 million customers worldwide. Our people are committed to building a dynamic internal culture where our people love what they do and feel motivated to keep things moving – for customers, for their colleagues and as part of their own growth and development. In RSA, employing positive people is how we achieve success. You will be working in an environment that encourages you to do great work and you constantly will be faced with fresh challenges that have a direct impact on our business. We believe your personality and passion will keep RSA and our business moving forward. At RSA we have a culture that supports and rewards high performance with a competitive reward policy for top performers. Our rewards package includes competitive compensation, work / life balance, opportunities to learn and the chance to make a difference working for a worldwide industry leader. Our Canadian head office is located at 18 York Street, Suite 800, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5J 2T8. THE MORE WE GROW… We offer more products now. In fact, we insure close to a million cars and over half a million homes in Canada. We have over 3,200 employees in Canada …working with over 19,000 RSA Group colleagues …in over 140 countries worldwide …serving over 17 million customers around the globe

Position Overview

The Senior Analyst, Research & Development will be a part of the Research & Development unit in the Pricing Centre of Excellence. You will support the pricing and underwriting objectives of the business through the use of advanced analytics. Reporting to the Manager, Research & Development, you will enhance our analytics capability through innovation and will embed best practices throughout pricing and underwriting analytics teams. About the Pricing Centre of Excellence in Canada: Pricing sophistication is a key business priority for RSA and an important area of investment to empower us to be more competitive. As the industry landscape and customer expectations evolve, our objective is to be more sophisticated in our risk understanding and to be more agile in responding to changing customer needs by having deeper insights in our pricing. In order to bring RSA in line with best-in-class pricing capabilities, we recently created a Pricing Centre of Excellence (COE) in Canada and have substantially increased its resources. The Pricing COE contains Core personal lines pricing units, as well as a dedicated Research and Development unit. This is an exciting opportunity to join a rapidly developing team focused on driving pricing innovation and best practices in order to make a material difference to our business.

Who you are
Your enthusiasm is infectious. You challenge the status quo. You find solutions to problems. You go the extra mile to exceed customers’ expectations. You get things done the right way. You represent our brand with passion and pride. You are a team player. You have fun and you make work fun for those working around you.

What you will achieve in this role
Specific duties and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Develop new predictive models to be used for pricing and underwriting;


• Drive modelling sophistication through research and analysis of advanced statistical techniques;


• Design, build and maintain market-leading rating algorithms;


• Develop, enhance, and promote modelling best practices, including providing training to junior analysts and other teams;


• Investigate, develop, and enhance data quality and data manipulation processes;


• Contribute to the development of winning pricing strategies; and


• Engage, support, and influence business partners to drive pricing sophistication and deliver results What you bring to this role


• University/College or Master degree in actuarial science, mathematics, econometrics or statistics;


• Minimum 3+ years relevant pricing/predictive analytics experience or relevant statistical experience;


• Technical expertise in predictive analytics, ideally including experience with SAS, R, Emblem, and Radar; * Out-of-the-box thinker, always striving for the next innovation;


• Proven ability to turn innovative insight into implementable value-driving solutions


• Demonstrated success in people, project, and relationship management;


• Knowledge of property and casualty insurance; and


• Outstanding communication skills (both oral and written)

Other Information This is a permanent, full-time position that will be based out of the Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada office. The salary for this position will be commensurate with experience and will range from CAD $53,400.00 to $80,400.00. The position is eligible for an annual bonus between 0% to 20% of regular earnings, based on financial and performance metrics. The position also offers health and dental plan insurance benefits and 3 weeks of vacation time.

OTHER INFORMATION Interested parties are asked to apply through our website: www.rsagroup.ca/careers. Applicants agree that by providing personal information in response to this ad, and otherwise in any recruitment process with RSA or its affiliated companies (the “Company”) such personal information may be retained and used for a period of one (1) year from the date of this application, for the purpose of consideration for employment opportunities which may arise during that time period, unless an applicant notifies the Company to the contrary.

We thank all applicants. However, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
We invite you to learn more about us at our Career Site, www.rsagroup.ca, where you can apply on line. RSA group of Companies is strongly committed to diversity and we are pleased to accept applications from underrepresented groups.

RSA group of Companies will provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in the job application process. If you have difficulty using our online application system and you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email AODA @ RSAGROUP.CA or call us at toll free 1 (800)-855-0511. Please note this email is only for accommodation requests. Resumes sent to this email address will not be considered.

Job Type: Full-time

Required education:

Required experience:

• Actuarial Science: 3 years


• Analytical skills: 3 years


• Associate Actuary: 3 years


• Insurance – Property & Casualty: 3 years


• University degree: 3 years


• Verbal Communication Skills: 3 years


• Written Communication skills: 3 years