Pricing and Performance Analyst
- Toronto, ON, Canada
- Greater Toronto Area, Canada, Canada
$90,000 to $95,000 CAD / year · Full-time
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Job details
- Pay
- $90,000 to $95,000 CAD / year
- Job type
- Full-time
- Apply by
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience in insurance, financial services, commercial analytics, pricing, portfolio management, or another quantitative business role.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
About the role
Our client is a global travel Insurer who is looking for someone to join their dynamic international
Product and Pricing team.
Responsibilities
Proposals, Pricing & Partner Profitability
- Build and maintain Excel-based pricing, profitability, and financial models supporting tenders, renewals, and new business opportunities.
- Prepare proposal and presentation materials that translate quantitative analysis into a clear commercial story for domestic and international tenders, renewals, and new business opportunities.
- Perform loss experience, pricing, and partner profitability analyses to support proposals and commercial recommendations.
- Provide analysis to Commercial and Product teams during partner negotiations and performance discussions.
- Monitor pricing effectiveness and identify opportunities for portfolio improvement.
- Validate analytical assumptions with Underwriting, Pricing, and Finance stakeholders.
Experience Monitoring & Analytics
- Monitor portfolio performance through profitability, loss ratio, frequency, severity, claims trend, exposure, and renewal analyses.
- Use SQL, Python, and Excel to analyze claims and exposure data and investigate the drivers of profitability changes.
- Produce regular portfolio reviews covering products, partners, distribution channels, markets, and customer segments.
- Identify emerging trends, deterioration indicators, and material deviations from expected performance, and recommend corrective actions where appropriate.
- Build and automate recurring experience monitoring, portfolio scorecards, key performance indicators, and profitability reporting using Power BI or similar tools.
- Work with Product, Claims, Finance, Commercial, and Operations teams to improve portfolio insights and data quality.
- Maintain clear and auditable documentation supporting portfolio analyses, governance decisions, and underwriting recommendations.
Underwriting Governance
- Administer the Red List (our watch list for underperforming products and partners) and its associated governance requirements.
- Identify products, partners, customer segments, and portfolios requiring enhanced monitoring or remediation.
- Develop recommendations, including pricing changes, underwriting actions, product modifications, benefit adjustments, or enhanced governance oversight.
- Prepare materials and recommendations for Local and Global Underwriting Committees.
- Track remediation actions and assess their effectiveness.
Technical Forecasting & Business Planning
- Prepare and maintain technical forecasts for budgeting, planning, and business performance reviews.
- Develop forecast assumptions based on portfolio performance, underwriting actions, pricing changes, and emerging experience trends.
- Monitor actual performance against forecast and explain material variances.
- Estimate the expected impact of pricing actions, underwriting decisions, product changes, and portfolio initiatives.
- Provide portfolio insights that inform strategic decision-making and profitability management.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Analytics, Economics, Finance, or a related quantitative discipline
Advanced Excel modelling skills, including the ability to build and maintain complex pricing, profitability, or financial models.
- Hands-on experience using SQL or Python for data analysis is required. Power BI experience is an asset.
- Strong PowerPoint and presentation-development skills, with the ability to translate quantitative analysis into clear, persuasive materials for commercial, underwriting, and management audiences.
- 2+ years of experience in insurance, financial services, commercial analytics, pricing, portfolio management, or another quantitative business role.
- Understanding of insurance profitability metrics, such as loss ratios, claims trends, and underwriting performance indicators, is an asset.
- Experience supporting forecasting, portfolio reviews, or underwriting governance activities is an asset.
- Experience in Travel Insurance, Accident & Sickness, or specialty insurance products is preferred.
- French is an asset.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in Travel Insurance, Accident & Sickness, or specialty insurance products is preferred.
- French is an asset.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Build pricing, profitability, and forecasting models; analyze claims and portfolio performance; and prepare commercial proposals and reporting for tenders, renewals, and business planning. Support underwriting governance by identifying underperforming portfolios, recommending corrective actions, and tracking remediation with cross-functional teams.
Requirements
Requires a bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline, advanced Excel modeling skills, and hands-on SQL or Python experience, along with strong presentation skills. Requires at least two years of relevant quantitative business experience; insurance profitability knowledge and experience in travel or specialty insurance are preferred.
Skills
- Excel Modeling
- SQL
- Python
- Power BI
- Pricing Analysis
- Profitability Analysis
- Portfolio Monitoring
- Insurance Analytics
- Forecasting
- Financial Modeling
- Claims Analysis
- Underwriting Governance
- Data Analysis
- PowerPoint Presentations
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- Commercial Analysis
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Categories
- Data & Analytics
- Finance & Accounting
- Management & Leadership
Keywords
- Excel
- SQL
- Python
- Power BI
- Pricing
- Profitability Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Portfolio Monitoring
- Loss Ratio
- Claims Trends
- Exposure Analysis
- Forecasting
- Business Planning
- Underwriting
- Underwriting Governance
- Red List
- Portfolio Scorecards
- Key Performance Indicators
- Data Quality
- Partner Profitability
- Tenders
- Renewals
- Commercial Analytics
- Insurance
- Travel Insurance
- Accident And Sickness Insurance
- PowerPoint
- Pricing Actions
- Remediation
- Portfolio Reviews