Senior Business Development Consultant - Reinsurance/Insurance

The candidate will be under the guidance of a Business Development Manager and work in a collaborative team to achieve:

- In-depth insights into clients' strategies & financial condition utilising publicly available data (e.g. financial statements, research reports, etc) as well as insights from discussions with client managers and market participants and translate them into commercially viable business opportunities

- Identify new market needs in order to generate meaningful reinsurance business opportunities

- Understand how different Swiss Re offerings may affect a client in terms of financial performance, accounting, rating agency, and equity valuation aspects

- Build financial models for individual clients, projecting financial statements to assess the impact of our solutions for the clients

- Produce high quality, replicable analytics & client presentation materials (including, but not limited to, visually attractive and compelling pitch books) of a standard comparable to leading investment banks or management consultants

- Act as dedicated BD support for a defined set of clients; be a trusted advisor / challenger, and support on specific deal teams as needed

- Provide input through a deal lifecycle to ensure solutions meet client objectives

Technical skills:

- 2+ years' experience (for associate), 5+ years (for AVP) in Consulting firms / Top Investment banks tracking Insurance / Re (insurance) - L&H and P&C (re)insurance segments (preferably both).

- Actuarial Experience (Minimum 6 papers cleared) / Experience in Corporate Finance and / or Equity Research.

- Strong presentation skills

- Good understanding of primary insurance markets, trends, and products

- Good combined knowledge of actuarial capital models, corporate finance, accounting, solvency and ratings capital models as well as company valuation driver.

- Analytical (proficient); ability to articulate clearly, ability to prioritize and multitask, adaptable, open-minded, pragmatic, ability to manage expectation of different stakeholders

- Proficient in Business Intelligence tools/Advanced Excel to prepare insightful dashboards to enable business origination.

- Strong analytical and quantitative skills

- Fluent command of English, additional language skills advantageous

- Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint

- Soft skills

- Has a commercial mindset

- An engaging personality that lives Swiss Re's values

- Demonstrates strategic vision and agility - ability to think strategically, anticipate future consequences and trends, and incorporate them into a plan with a relentless focus on execution

- Out of the box thinker; comfortable working on solutions across a broad range of challenges

- Strong communicator able to present complex information both to technical and non-technical audiences in a confident, simple and concise way

- Taking initiatives and getting things done - someone who likes to talk enough about what needs to happen but is itching to get the job done

- Open-minded, outgoing, imaginative, creative, inquisitive, energetic and committed team player

- Takes pride in and enjoys working with clients as much as with own ideas

Educational requirement

- Actuary/CFA/MBA from Tier I B-schools with corporate finance experience

- Bachelor / Post Graduate degree in a quantitative principle in Mathematics / Statistics / Finance / Economics