Assurance Senior Manager - Actuarial Science, Life Modelling

Industry/Sector

FS X-Sector

Specialism

Assurance

Management Level

Senior Manager

Job Description & Summary

A career within Actuarial Services, will provide you with the opportunity to contribute general insurance advice and consulting services to clients such as insurers, banks, regulators, and third party administrators. You’ll provide advice covering solvency, economic capital, risk management, mergers and acquisitions, company restructuring and risk control, financial modelling, underwriting, new legislation, and the efficiency of claims or reporting processes. Simply put, you might help analyse the impact that new regulation will have on an insurance company’s balance sheet or you could be revising businesses’ projections and making sure they have adequate reserves.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.
• Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
• Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
• Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
• Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.
• Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.
• Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
• Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Our life modelling team leverages sophisticated actuarial software to develop, test and run models that perform a variety of complex calculations for our life, annuity, and health insurance clients.We support the audits of several of the largest insurers in the world. This includes public, private and mutual insurers. It also includes the insurance operations of several banks and private equity firms.Our team primarily uses Axis and Prophet but also uses other vendor software or work on models developed by our clients.We design, build and test new models for our clients. We also convert existing models to models supported by other vendors.The models are used for financial and capital reporting, testing clients models, and mergers and acquisitions activities.Using these actuarial models, our team also performs valuation and reporting services for our clients as part of our managed service offering.

Skills Required:

Demonstrates proven extensive knowledge of, and/or success in managerial roles involving, technical actuarial subject matter specialization, especially in Life or Non-Life industry and regulatory developments.

• Demonstrates some proven knowledge of database structures and data process flows.
• Demonstrates some proven abilities and/or success with using actuarial software, preferably Axis or Prophet.
• Demonstrates some proven abilities and/or success as a team leader: creating a positive environment by monitoring workloads of the team while meeting client expectations and respecting the work-life quality of team members; providing candid, meaningful feedback in a timely manner; keeping leadership informed of progress and issues; answering questions and providing direction to less-experienced staff.
• Demonstrates some proven level abilities and/or success with writing, communicating, facilitating, and presenting cogently; to and/or for all levels of industry audiences, clients and internal staff and management.

Qualification:

Pursuing/Completed Actuarial Science

Experience

7 years

Travel Requirements

Not Specified

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