
African Reinsurance Corporation (Africa Re)
The Assistant Underwriting and Statistics Officer supports the underwriting, pricing, and reporting functions of the Regional Office, within the Corporation’s overall policies and guidelines, and consistent with the highest standards of technical rigor and client service.\n\nThe job holder reports to the Assistant Director – Underwriting & Marketing and works closely with Underwriters, Claims, Finance, and Technical Accounting teams.\n\n### Key Responsibilities and Duties\n- Support pricing and profitability analysis for facultative and treaty reinsurance business, including experience analysis, trend analysis, loss ratio monitoring, and portfolio performance reviews.\n- Assist in the analysis and validation of underwriting statistics, exposure data, claims triangles, and other datasets submitted by cedants and brokers for treaty renewals and facultative placements.\n- Support the development and maintenance of actuarial and pricing models using advanced Microsoft Excel techniques and other available tools (including complex formulas, Power Query, Power Pivot, macros, and VBA), and where applicable, analytical tools such as R, Python, or similar statistical programming languages.\n- Support the design, development, and maintenance of data dashboards and management reports using modern business intelligence and data visualization tools (e.g. Excel dashboards, Power BI, or similar platforms).\n- Assist Underwriters in pricing specific lines of business, particularly Medical, Agriculture, Engineering, or related specialty risks, including scenario testing and sensitivity analysis.\n- Participate in experience studies and research work relating to pricing assumptions, reserving inputs, risk trends, and emerging risks across designated markets.\n- Support the Underwriting team during treaty renewals by reviewing data completeness, reconciling figures across submissions, preparing draft technical analyses, and assisting with quotations as required.\n- Accurately process underwriting data within the Corporation’s reinsurance administration (SICS) and reporting (BO) systems, ensuring data integrity and consistency across the platforms.\n- Prepare regular and ad-hoc statistics, production, and performance reports for Management, ensuring compliance with internal reporting timelines and quality standards.\n- Assist in reconciling technical results with Finance and Technical Accounting teams, including premium, claims, and portfolio performance reconciliations.\n- Support marketing and client engagement activities by preparing analytical exhibits and supporting materials for client meetings, seminars, and training sessions.\n- Maintain well-organized electronic records of analytical models, statistics, reports and supporting documentation in compliance with internal record-keeping and archiving guidelines.\n- Keep abreast of developments in data analytics, insurance and reinsurance markets, and emerging analytical tools relevant to the role.\n- Carry out any other duties assigned by the Supervisor.\n\n### Academic Qualifications & Experience\n- A First University Degree in Actuarial Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Economics, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline.\n- At least 4-5 years of relevant practical experience in an underwriting, statistics, actuarial, pricing, analytics, or reporting role within an insurance or reinsurance company.\n- Progress towards relevant professional qualifications will be a strong advantage.
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online by visiting African Reinsurance Corporation (Africa Re) on www.africa-re.com.


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