Senior Trainee Actuary - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Phoenix Group

Phoenix Group
Phoenix Group
Verified Company
Birmingham, United Kingdom

4 days ago

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Job Type:
Permanent


Location and flexible working:
London, Telford, Wythall or Edinburgh with hybrid working. All roles are advertised as open to part-time and job-share using the statement below. You can read more about
Phoenix Flex here

Salary and benefits:
Competitive salary plus 8% up to 16% bonus, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more


Contact:
Beth Owens


We're currently recruiting for a Senior Trainee Actuary to join our Capital Management Team to develop the skills, competencies and behaviours of a fully effective qualified actuary within the business through a structured programme involving placement training and professional education, working competently and effectively within each placement.


Who are we?
We want to be the best place that any of our 6,800 colleagues have ever worked.

We're the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business.

We offer our 12 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£259 billion of assets under administration.

We're a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we're not done yet.


The role

  • Support qualified actuaries and other senior managers in their objective of meeting business and regulatory requirements.
  • Develop and maintain a deep understanding of current technical aspects of the placement
  • Build proficiency in communicating effectively (verbal and written) with a technical and nontechnical audience, through simplifying complexity, to allow informed decision making and controlled risktaking.
  • Manage and prioritise workloads effectively, with guidance from manager, in order to deliver work to an agreed plan.
  • Developing professional knowledge in an environment of fast moving regulatory change.
  • Developing commercial understanding to ensure actuarial and technical advice meets business needs.
  • Identifying and grasping quickly key areas of business knowledge required, issues and drivers in placement area to make early impact and contribution. Contributing to an engaged and motivated team, and to innovative thinking and improvement.

What are we looking for?

  • Trainee actuary, making good progress through exams.
  • Inquisitive, eager to learn and able to grasp new concepts
  • Strong communication skills
- able to produce written work able to be shared with senior team members Technically strong, good understanding of actuarial concept as would be expected through experience gained


We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

If your experience looks different from what we've advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you.


If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

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