Advisory and analytics make an ideal service for our clients
We believe this combination allows clients to manage and expand their actuarial analytics by leveraging the latest technologies in the most efficient manner.
Just as InsurTech is transforming the way insurers market their products, acquire and retain business, our focus at Zenith Actuarial is to change the way insurers access and leverage data management, analytics and visualisation technologies.
Rather than rely on expensive consulting projects, complex spreadsheets or licenced desktop actuarial projection systems that need programming by expensive actuarial specialists, the services of Zenith Actuarial – our unique “analytics as a service” – allows insurers of all sizes to access the pre-built and maintained analytics via a usage based subscription fee.
By working with our clients and understanding their needs, we aim to offer an expanding service that is always fit for purpose.
“We believe that the demands facing small to medium sized insurers across Europe – such as Solvency II regulations, EU developments (ie PRIIPS), past business thematic reviews, plus general economic pressures on administering business and delivering investment returns – mean that actuarial services and support need to align to these challenges and provide firms with value at a cost-effective level. We have established our business, people, technology and strategy in order to support our clients in this way.”
Scott Robinson, Founder & CEO
Zenith Actuarial
Services that cover all aspects of actuarial work
Through a combination of approved-person roles, consulting projects, secondments and outsourcing assignments, we support our clients’ actuarial, risk and finance teams across a wide range of regulatory, product development, actuarial modelling and data visualisation and analysis projects.
In all our projects, whether supporting our clients or implementing our analytics, or more general advisory work, our focus is on how the analytics can add value and insights into each client’s actuarial, risk and financial management needs.
“Our recent work includes a number of product development projects for UK retail savings products and European pension development; capital management and Solvency II analysis; assisting with a large-scale actuarial model implementation for a major UK insurer; review of internal model methodology and documentation; advice and support to the audit and risk committee of a UK mutual; actuarial and financial support, including Solvency II valuation and modelling, for a start-up UK insurer; assisting a firm with FCA thematic review (long-standing customers).”
Scott Robinson, Founder & CEO
Zenith Actuarial
Costs that reflect actuarial and visualisation usage
Our objective is that, after configuring the service, clients will be able to rapidly produce meaningful results and insights into their business via an efficient process of configure, load data, perform analytics, visualise results.
Our initial suite of analytic offerings are targeted at Lifetime ISA (LISA) policy administration, PRIIPs calculations, supporting Thematic Reviews and Solvency II cash flow projections, risk margin and standard formula SCR calculations.
By working with our clients, our offering will expand to meet whatever their growing needs require.
The subscription fee covers the analytics, infrastructure, support and upgrades.
“The focus of our business and our aim is to develop our actuarial analytical services, so that our clients can use such services without the need for a great deal of expensive consulting support. We believe this puts them in control of the analysis they need, such as policy and asset data validation, Solvency II valuation, ORSA analysis and PRIIPS calculations, and enables them to undertake this analysis in a cost- effective manner that meets budget constraints, and is able to deliver to tight timescales.”
Martin Sher, COO
Zenith Actuarial
People who know the industry inside out
Zenith Actuarial has experience in a wide range of actuarial, finance and business issues gained from working within large actuarial consultancies, and within the life industry.
Our people have a history of working with a large range of international insurance companies, including European and UK mutual insurers, and UK friendly societies.
Scott Robinson
Founder & CEO
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Martin Sher
COO
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Thomas Barnish
Portal Operations Manager
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Working with the best
Plain Concepts is an award-winning technical company founded in 2006 by four Microsoft MVPs and declared Microsoft Partner of the Year 2016.
With over 100 staff in offices in Seattle, Bilbao, London, Barcelona, Dubai, Seville, Madrid and León, they provide full development and design of digital products from start to finish as well as consulting services as requested. This includes multi-platform applications, cloud services, customized backend solutions, desktop clients as well as public and private web portals. Insurance clients include Mapfre, Aegon, SegurCaixa and WrBerkley.
“Our consultants have all worked for most of their careers either within major actuarial consultancies, or in industry. We have a vast amount of knowledge and experience of working with friendly societies and small to large insurers, both in the UK and abroad. The experience we bring covers the range of Chief Actuary and With-Profit Actuary roles, and aspects such as Solvency II reporting, financial reporting, risk management, investment strategy, business strategy, M&A, actuarial modelling, and product development.”
Scott Robinson, CEO
Zenith Actuarial
Thomas Barnish has significant consulting experience including Solvency II valuations and the design and building of actuarial models. He also has experience with the production of tools to support management decisions.
Thomas's strong interest is in the development of new software to help companies understand, use and communicate information to a range of users.
Martin has over 25 years actuarial software experience bringing to market a range of products. These include the MoSes (now RAFM) actuarial projection system and RiskReporter Solvency II reporting system.
Martin focuses on Zenith Actuarial’s technology offerings and is passionate about changing the way clients access and consume their required analytics in a way that adds value to their business.
Scott established Zenith Actuarial in early 2016 to develop an actuarial consulting and software business focused on the insurance industry.
Prior to 2016, Scott was the leader of the UK Life business for a major actuarial consulting business.
Scott has over 20 years of experience in the life industry, including holding a number of approved person roles for UK and European insurers. Scott has worked with friendly societies throughout his career, and have also worked with numerous small to large insurers, in the UK and abroad.
Scott's experience covers statutory and prudential reporting (Solvency II), financial reporting, bonus investigations and recommendations, experience investigations, risk management, investment strategy, product development, M&A, implementing actuarial software, and general business strategy.
“At Zenith we pride ourselves in being different from the traditional actuarial consultancy; this is not only reflected in our range of service offerings but also in our flexible working approach and our people. Being a small team every contribution is recognised, valued and rewarded. We believe this is an exciting time to join us. If you would like to hear about opportunities in our advisory services or portal development teams please contact us.”
Thomas Barnish, Portal Operations Manager
Zenith Actuarial
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