Senior Actuarial Consultant – Axis

Senior, Managed Services, Life Actuarial, EY GDS Consulting Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior to join our Life Insurance Managed Services Actuarial Practice delivering solutions to the leading clients in Insurance Sector, working closely with other Staff/Assistants, Consultants/Seniors, Managers, Senior Managers or Client partners in EY's global network of insurance sector and consulting professionals.

You can expect to work along with senior managers/directors to support large scale engagements and deliver high-quality client solutions. You will develop and maintain long-term relationships and networks, build and energize a high performing team.

Responsibilities

• Be part of a high-performing, supportive culture
• Work with a team of collaborators, innovators and the brightest minds in the industry
• Develop and implement solutions both within the Insurance service line and in collaboration with other services lines

Key Requirements

• As a Senior within the Actuarial managed services team your role involves developing and implementing solutions both within the Insurance service line and in collaboration with other services lines.
• Good understanding of US product lines and regulatory standards; hands-on implementation experience (desirable)
• Experience of handling a small to moderate sized team will be an advantage
• Ability to review work done by junior members, ensuring quality of work product during time sensitive deadlines
• Ability to maneuver around existing modeling setup to incorporate the asset or liability cashflows
• Understanding of AoC concept and AoC steps (unwinding, roll forward, assumption changes, experience variances)
• Strong excel skills, capable of running and modifying macros used to transform Actuarial Cashflows
• Hands-on experience in actuarial valuation software such as Prophet / Axis / MG Alpha. Advanced level experience in one of these softwares will be valuable
• Strong experience on Excel is must and experience on VBA would be good
• Good experience of preparing PPT decks
• In-depth understanding of insurance products and regulations of one or more geographies

Skills and attributes for success

Skills and attributes for a successful career at EY require a learning mindset and passion to add value to GDS, member firms and client organisations. Bright and enthusiastic individuals who give their all to each assignment they work on will find themselves at home within our energetic GDS actuarial team.

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 3-6 years of experience in valuation / reporting / pricing or modelling function in life actuarial team of an insurance / consulting / outsourcing company
• Good analytical skills
• Ability to do investigations in models / reporting process and independently solve problems
• Willingness to learn and apply learning actively in project work
• Proficiency in MS-Office Suite, Power BI, VBA, SAS, R Programming, Python, SQL, SPSS, etc., will be a plus

Ideally, youll also have

• Good actuarial exam progress
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for report writing, industry studies and stakeholder presentations
• The ability to build relationships with colleagues across the business, support them and promote a collaborative environment
• Overseas exposure (especially Australia/UK/US/Europe market experience)

What we look for

• Up to date knowledge of the regulatory environment impacting insurers and other financial service organisations
• Experience of supporting teams to high quality timely delivery, actively building relationships and promoting a collaborative culture when working with colleagues