Career Area:

Finance

Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other.  We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Role Definition

• Directs the actuarial function for the organization by analyzing, estimating financial risk for Insurance products and services.

Responsibilities

• Communicating the complexities of insurance finances to company executives, government officials, shareholders, policyholders, or the general public.
• Participating in determining company policies for product development, pricing, reserving, reinsurance and financial management from an actuarial perspective.
• Developing and implementing strategies, policies, and guidelines for the actuarial function; monitoring all actuarial operations.
• Developing methods and procedures to continually improve the effectiveness and efficiency of actuarial functions for the organization; implementing quality control procedures.

Consideration for Top Candidates:

• At least 7 years of experience in performing pricing or reserving actuarial functions
• Active membership in the Casualty Actuarial Society (ACAS or FCAS)
• Be able to provide a servant leadership mindset, prioritizing the growth and well-being of team members coupled with a minimum of 2 years management/leadership experience.

Skill Descriptors
Communicating Complex Concepts: Knowledge of effective presentation tools and techniques to ensure clear understanding; ability to use summarization and simplification techniques to explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience.
 Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Uses comparisons to familiar ideas when introducing a technical or novel feature.
•    Separates fundamental concepts from supporting details in explaining a product or service.
•    Explains products and services with little or no use of technical jargon or advanced vocabulary.
•    Emphasizes the most important facts or features of a product or service.
•    Perceives lack of audience comprehension; further simplifies explanation when needed.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
 Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Differentiates assumptions, perspectives, and historical frameworks.
•    Evaluates past decisions for insights to improve decision-making process.
•    Assesses and validates decision options and points and predicts their potential impact.
•    Advises others in analyzing and synthesizing relevant data and assessing alternatives.
•    Uses effective decision-making approaches such as consultative, command, or consensus.
•    Ensures that assumptions and received wisdom are objectively analyzed in decisions.

Organizational Leadership: Knowledge of leadership concepts and ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing and achieving objectives.
 Level Working Knowledge: 
•    Employs various group decision-making methods depending on the situation.
•    Promotes efficacy through monitoring, coaching & motivating subordinates, intervention, etc.
•    Translates vision into specific functional or departmental initiatives.
•    Uses emotional contagion to affect the mood of group members, tone of group and group processes.
•    Uses a normative decision model (with leadership styles and situational variables) to select style.
•    Initiates structure: role clarification, setting standards, holding subordinates accountable, etc.

Producing Results: Understanding of the criticality of getting things done despite current circumstances and the ability to utilize assigned resources and leverage back-channel resources (individuals or teams) to achieve or exceed planned outcomes.
 Level Expert: 
•    Works to create a climate that values and rewards drive, initiative, and achievement of results.
•    Leads the way in viewing setbacks or failures as learning opportunities.
•    Takes extraordinary measures to solve problems and get work done when situation calls for it.
•    Deals effectively with ambiguity and uncertainty; recovers from disappointments and setbacks.
•    Coaches others in behaviors for personal effectiveness, results-orientation.
•    Teaches others the importance of networking, using the informal organization for results.

Actuarial Function: Knowledge of the major responsibilities, accountabilities, and organization of the actuarial function; ability to manage actuarial tasks and activities to high quality standards .
 Level Expert: 
•    Advocates the development of new technologies and tools for the actuary function.
•    Leads in predictive analyses on market conditions in insurance industry.
•    Mentors others in the future development decisions based on statistical analyses.
•    Leads discussions on loss reserving, IBNR determination and future valuation of complex instruments.
•    Predicts the future trends and developments for the actuary function or unit.
•    Designs and implements strategies and policies for the actuary function.

Financial Mathematics: Knowledge of mathematical tools and techniques used in developing and pricing financial instruments; ability to carry out mathematical calculations in various financial scenarios.
 Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Advises others on the analysis of calculation results for financial models with specific applications.
•    Prices securities with various mathematical theories.
•    Coaches trainees on the use of Capital Asset Pricing Model and Arbitrage Pricing Theory.
•    Applies mathematical theories and models in complex and varied financial instruments.
•    Consults on the use of various financial derivatives pricing theories.
•    Utilizes financial mathematics to make complex financial risk decisions.

Statistics and Actuarial Modeling: Knowledge of statistical and actuarial modeling tools and techniques; ability to apply modeling processes and techniques to facilitate risk management decisions.
 Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Coaches others on complicated statistical mathematics concepts and calculations.
•    Assesses the quality, relevance and reliability of data used as input to a given model.
•    Consults on the selection of appropriate actuary models for complex and unusual risk management problems.
•    Applies varied modeling processes to diverse risk management problems.
•    Analyzes and draws final conclusions from results of the modeling process.
•    Calculates, explains and adjusts for potential errors in a given model.

Insurance / Warranty Industry: Knowledge of the insurance industry's functions; ability to apply knowledge of insurance trends, directions, major issues, and regulatory considerations to various business environments.
Level Extensive Experience: 
•    Discusses existing and planned distribution platforms for a specific product.
•    Monitors major trends associated with a specific insurance product or function.
•    Researches key industry players and competitors for a specific product or market.
•    Explains the best practices, key processes and benchmarks for a specific insurance product.
•    Describes possible solutions to major operational issues.

This Job Description is intended as a general guide to the job duties for this position and is intended for the purpose of establishing the specific salary grade.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive summary of all responsibilities, duties and effort required of employees assigned to this job.  At the discretion of management, this description may be changed at any time to address the evolving needs of the organization.  It is expressly not intended to be a comprehensive list of “essential job functions” as that term is defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Relocation is available for this position.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position. This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as, H, L, TN, F, J, E, O. As a global company, Caterpillar offers many job opportunities outside of the U.S which can be found through our employment website at www.caterpillar.com/careers.

Posting Dates:

August 15, 2024 - August 22, 2024

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.   

EEO/AA Employer.  All qualified individuals - Including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities - are encouraged to apply.

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