Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

This role applies actuarial judgement and strong analytical thinking to deliver meaningful business outcomes across the end-to-end insurance lifecycle.

Role Highlights  

• Auckland based, full-time, permanent role.

• Act as a key partner to the Analytics Lead, helping align analytics with business strategy.

• Happy to talk flexible working.

The Opportunity  

You’ll help shape a growing analytics function by building decisioning and measurement foundations that improve how we underwrite, support pricing strategy, and manage portfolio performance over time - with an initial focus on an automated underwriting and referral engine.

About QBE   

• At QBE, we get to the heart of what matters for our customers. And we do it all with a human touch.   

• We’re an international insurer with more than 13,000 people working across 26 countries – which means we’re big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a real impact. It’s an exciting time. We’re building momentum towards our vision to become the most consistent and innovative risk partner.  

• What if you could have a positive impact – at work and in the world? As part of the QBE team, you’ll get to spend every day working with people who are passionate, talented and kind. 

Your new role  

Working closely with the Analytics Lead, you’ll help set the direction for the analytics function while delivering high-quality work end-to-end. This includes identifying use cases, building reusable analytics assets, and embedding an analytical mindset into decision making across the business.

You will be responsible for:

• Shaping and delivering prioritised analytical use cases across underwriting, distribution, pricing, claims and portfolio performance (from problem framing through to implementation).

• Building predictive models and decisioning logic to support the business.

• Supporting continuous improvement of analytical capabilities, including defining performance metrics, monitoring, and feedback loops to improve outcomes over time.

• Exploring, formulating, and improving datasets required to measure and explain business performance and inform strategic decisions.

• Communicating decision-ready insights clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leaders.

• Uplifting analytics ways of working, including governance, documentation, versioning, and reproducibility in line with internal and regulatory expectations.

More information and the full job profile can be shared with applicants during the interview process.  

About you  

You bring strong actuarial capability, curiosity, and the ability to translate data into meaningful, measurable outcomes. You enjoy building new capability in ambiguous environments and can move between hands-on analysis and stakeholder engagement as needed.

You’ll have:

• Actuarial qualification (Associate level or higher) or equivalent combination of education with experience in general insurance (commercial lines exposure advantageous).

• Experience delivering analytics that influences underwriting, pricing, claims, or portfolio decisions.

• Ability to work with large structured datasets and to combine multiple data sources to create business-meaningful views.

• Skills in tools such as SQL, Python and/or R (experience with modern development practices such as Git is advantageous).

• Confidence presenting complex concepts in a clear and engaging way.

• A track record of building or improving analytical solutions and processes that deliver measurable business outcomes.

• A forward-thinking, practical mindset - focused on building, testing, and iterating rather than producing analysis for its own sake.

 

Benefits   

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from: 

• ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance 

• Free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice 

• 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super 

To learn more about benefits of working with us, click here. 

 

Awards & Recognition  

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards: 

• 2025 Winner of Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award at the Insurance Business Australia Awards for our Respect@QBE program 

• 2023 Most Inclusive Workplace at the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) Awards  

• Ranked in the top ten in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2025 for medium sized program as voted by graduates 

 

To learn more about our achievements, click here. 

 

How to Apply  

If you’re looking for a career that combines your expertise and your empathy, click Apply today. Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment. 

Your career. At the heart of it.  

QBE recognises the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at [email protected]. 

Skills:

Communication, Critical Thinking, Data Science, Data Visualization, Financial Products, Intentional collaboration, Machine Learning (ML), Managing performance, Mentorship, Research Analysis, Risk Management, Scrum (Agile), Stakeholder Management, Strategic Leadership, Team Management

Application Close Date: 05/02/2026 11:59 PM

How to Apply:

To submit your application, click "Apply" and follow the step by step process.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.