Data Insights Lead – Insurance Reserving

New York, NY (Hybrid – 3 days in office)

OR London (Hybrid)

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Base salary: $150,000–$200,000

Annual bonus: 20–25% target

OR £90,000 - £120,000

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Comprehensive benefits including medical, retirement, paid time off, wellness programmes, and tuition assistance.

We're looking for a Data Insights Lead to transform how reserving data is used across a leading global insurance organisation. This is a unique opportunity to partner with actuarial, finance, claims, underwriting, and data teams to build modern analytics solutions that improve insight, reduce manual processes, and support strategic decision-making.

What you'll do

• Lead the development of dashboards, datasets, and self-service analytics that provide clear insight into reserving performance.

• Turn complex insurance data into meaningful, actionable intelligence for business stakeholders.

• Improve reporting by replacing manual processes with scalable, automated solutions.

• Identify trends and reserve movements, helping teams understand key drivers and emerging risks.

• Collaborate with data, actuarial, finance, and technology teams to ensure trusted, high-quality data is available for decision-making.

• Explore opportunities to apply AI and advanced analytics to enhance reserving insights and efficiency.

• Help establish best practices for reporting, data definitions, and governance.

Required Experience & Skills

• Experience in data, analytics, actuarial, finance, or a related insurance or reinsurance role.
• Experience helping to design, improve, or deliver data and analytics solutions for business users.
• A deep understanding of insurance or reinsurance data, including how claims, policy, exposure, premium, underwriting, finance, and actuarial information can be used to support analysis.
• The ability to lead through influence, work with technical teams, and bring people together around a shared outcome.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to make complex data and analysis clear, practical, and actionable.
• Experience creating dashboards, datasets, visualizations, or self-service tools that help business users understand performance, trends, and drivers.
• Curiosity about AI and emerging technologies, and an interest in applying them to real business problems in a practical and responsible way.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Power BI, or similar platforms.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with reserving, actuarial, finance, claims, underwriting, or performance reporting teams.
• Some knowledge of reserving processes, actuarial triangles, loss development, claims trends, or financial close reporting.
• Hands-on experience with Power BI and other visualization platforms.

Location

• New York, NY (Hybrid – minimum 3 days per week in the office)

Compensation

• Base salary: $150,000–$200,000

• Annual bonus: 20–25% target

• Comprehensive benefits including medical, retirement, paid time off, wellness programmes, and tuition assistance.

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