**Specialist, AFR** - Drive strategic data direction across actuarial and finance, ensuring scalability, AI-readiness, and long-term business alignment. Translate vision into action, oversee key initiatives, and define robust data governance. Requires 8+ years in data, analytics, or transformation roles, strong analytical skills, and strategic thinking. Experience in stakeholder management and exposure to advanced analytics, AI/ML preferred. Join AXA XL, a leading global provider of re/insurance, promoting diversity, inclusion, and sustainability.
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Specialist, AFR Gurgaon, Haryana, India Shape the future of actuarial data as an enterprise asset. This role drives the strategic direction of data across actuarial and finance, ensuring it is scalable, AI-ready, and aligned to long-term business vision. Acting as a central orchestrator, the role connects strategy, delivery, and stakeholders - translating vision into execution while keeping data platforms, processes, and capabilities future-ready. What youll be DOING What will your essential responsibilities include? Design the roadmap for transforming current data processes into scalable, governed, and future-ready frameworks. Translate business vision into actionable programs, defining clear problem statements, success metrics, and execution plans. Oversee progress across key data initiatives, proactively identifying risks, dependencies, and trade-offs. Support leadership decision-making through structured insights, updates, and clear articulation of data strategy progress. Continuously evaluate current-state limitations and define forward-looking solutions to strengthen data governance, scalability, and usability. Identify and drive high-impact initiatives (automation, data standardization, intelligent enrichment) to improve efficiency and insight generation. Define and drive the long-term data strategy across data, aligned to enterprise objectives and future use cases (AI/ML, automation, analytics). You will report to Senior Specialist, AFR. What you will BRING Were looking for someone who has these abilities and skills: Required Skills and Abilities: University Graduate (B.E/B. Tech/CS/IT, MBA, or equivalent) with effective academic foundation. Relevant years of experience in data, analytics, product owner, or transformation roles. Excellent analytical, research, and problem-solving skills. Robust strategic thinking with ability to translate vision into executable plans. Ability to manage multiple priorities, stakeholders, and initiatives in parallel. Program/project management capability (tracking, governance, risk management). Effective communication skills to engage senior stakeholders and influence direction. Desired Skills and Abilities: Good working knowledge of SQL, Excel. Effective organizational skills and attention to detail. Experience in stakeholder-facing roles or program coordination across teams. Background in insurance, finance, or actuarial data ecosystems. Exposure to advanced analytics, AI/ML, automation, or modern data platforms. Who WE are AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we dont just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it. How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty. With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward. Learn more at axaxl.com What we OFFER Inclusion AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. Thats why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential. Its about helping one another and our business to move forward and succeed. Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe. Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter Learn more at axaxl.com/about-us/inclusion-and-diversity. AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Total Rewards AXA XLs Reward program is designed to take care of what matters most to you, covering the full picture of your health, wellbeing, lifestyle and financial security. It provides competitive compensation and personalized, inclusive benefits that evolve as you do. Were committed to rewarding your contribution for the long term, so you can be your best self today and look forward to the future with confidence. Sustainability At AXA XL, Sustainability is integral to our business strategy. In an ever-changing world, AXA XL protects what matters most for our clients and communities. We know that sustainability is at the root of a more resilient future. Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called Roots of resilience, focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations. Our Pillars: Valuing nature: How we impact nature affects how nature impacts us. Resilient ecosystems - the foundation of a sustainable planet and society are essential to our future. Were committed to protecting and restoring nature from mangrove forests to the bees in our backyard by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans. Addressing climate change: The effects of a changing climate are far-reaching and significant. Unpredictable weather, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels cause both social inequalities and environmental disruption. We're building a net zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions. Integrating ESG: All companies have a role to play in building a more resilient future. Incorporating ESG considerations into our internal processes and practices builds resilience from the roots of our business. Were training our colleagues, engaging our external partners, and evolving our sustainability governance and reporting. AXA Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as AXA XLs Hearts in Action programs. These include our Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and our annual volunteering day the Global Day of Giving. For more information, please see axaxl.com/sustainability.