Description
Financial Services
- Location: London/Edinburgh
- Category: Life Actuarial
- Type: Contract
Key responsibilities including but not limited to:
- Partnering with stakeholders to understand their needs and identify where pricing tools, models and methodologies can best support sustainable growth
- Acting as an SME to commercial pricing & platform teams and proposition projects, supporting pricing decisions and analysis across products
- Effectively and efficiently setting pricing assumptions, maintaining consistency with reporting assumptions where appropriate, applying expert judgement and insight-backed justification
- Designing and implementing innovative, robust and well-controlled solutions that improve pricing capability – this includes pricing models and trigger-based assumption reviews
- Supporting the implementation and continuous improvement of the pricing framework.
- Strong knowledge of Matching Adjustment (MA) portfolios required
- A good understanding of actuarial concept and techniques, e.g. a qualified Actuary, with experience in annuity pricing and annuity investment management
- Inquisitive with a strong problem-solving background
- Strong technical ability in analysing customer needs, designing and implementing effective solutions
- Able to effectively use AI and automation to simplify work and deliver high quality output at pace
- A basic understanding of coding and model development, ideally with relevant experience in one or more of these software packages (Python, R, VBA, Mo. Net)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Effective influencing and stakeholder management skills