Senior Actuary - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies.

We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.


  • Job Purpose

As an experienced qualified actuary at Canada Life you will be responsible for leading actuarial, statistical and financial insight and analysis to senior management, overseeing analysis and insight produced by other actuaries where appropriate and leadingsmall to medium sized teams of qualified and part-qualified actuaries and analysts.

Using your significant specialist technical expertise and solid commercial understanding you will take a lead within the team and function to advise the business and influencedecisions, ensuring that we are managing risk to the business in line with Canada Life's risk appetite, complying with our statutory responsibilities and meeting the needs of our policyholders and regulators.

This role sits in Canada Life's credit risk team and will work closely with the investment, finance, and actuarial functions.

More specifically, this role is in a sub-team that focuses on the capital modelling and structuring of equity release mortgages andother illiquid assets.


This includes:

  • Analysing data and making recommendations for modelling equity release mortgage risks captured in Canada Life's Solvency II internal model
  • Designing and rating equity release mortgage structured cashflows
  • Improving rating and structuring efficiency for equity release mortgages and other illiquid asset classes
  • Carrying out regular reporting including SCR calculations, stress and scenario testing, the equity release mortgage effective value test, and other results when requested
  • As the role sits between multiple functions it will working with multiple senior stakeholder such as the Chief Actuary, CFO, CRO and CIO.
Key Accountabilities

Leading risk analysis activity within your discipline, you will be responsible for effectively operating cross-functionally across the business on BAU and project activities, where the key to success will be demonstrating initiative combined with your abilityto collaborate and influence senior stakeholders across different team and disciplines and other areas of the Canada Life group.

2) Communicate to senior executives (Executive Director Individual Business, CFO, Head of Actuarial Function and other Heads of function and Director level stakeholders), in an appropriate manner, the impact, financial and otherwise, of the various actuarialinvestigations, reports, recommendations and analyses and provide recommendations to senior executives to ensure successful business operation.

Additionally, using your experience and your deep knowledge of the business and the work done by your team, you will consider developmental opportunities, making recommendations to your line manager to improve operational efficiency and competitive advantage.

3) Initiating and overseeing the production of regular reports and annual/longer term plans undertaken by other actuaries, taking accountability for leading the continuous review and improvement of department processes and procedures.

Your oversight will takeinto account up-to-date industry developments and issues to ensure to ensure the provision of a timely, accurate, commercial and efficient actuarial service to the business and key stakeholders across the business.

4) Oversee and implement actuarial control frameworks, initiating regular review of appropriate actuarial controls and analysis.

Ensuring insight and commentary for senior managers and boards is written to a high standard and complies with legislation and ourown internal control requirements.

5) Manage, coach, develop and motivate a team of qualified and part-qualified actuaries in order to optimise the performance of the team in line with the Divisions objectives.

You will be responsible for reviewing the recommendations of qualified and part-qualifiedactuaries and providing feedback, coaching and mentoring to support their development.

Develop the skills and knowledge of team members so that they have the expertise to achieve the business requirements, as well as maximising individual development.

Desired Knowledge / Experience / Skills


Communication:


  • Strong communication skills, demonstrating a clear and articulate standard of written and verbal communication in a complex environment, tailored for all levels of management, including Board level.
  • Strong ability to adapt messages to the audience, without prompting or significant coaching, in a format that is easily understood by nontechnical colleagues
  • Strong influencing skills, with experience of engaging with Boards and senior management in order to get desired outcome

Relationship Building:


  • The ability to develop and maintain strong relationships across the actuarial function and the wider business, acting with integrity and role modelling the company values at all times.
  • Strong interpersonal/networking skills, with the ability to maintain a variety of relationships with multiple stakeholders,
  • Ability to flex their style and delivery, in the moment, depending on the individual and/or audience.

Taking Initiative:


  • Exceptional problem solving skills and attention to detail with demonstrable ability in spotting issues, interdependencies and challenges to ensure work is produced to an accurate, commercial and informed standard.
  • Selfmotivated, wellorganised, pragmatic and able to perform tasks independently.

Developing Self and Others:


  • Strong skills and experience in managing and motivating a team from a diverse range of professional b
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