Job Type: 9 months FTC
Location: This role could be based in any of our UK offices with time spent working in the office and at home.
Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.
Closing Date: 1st December
Salary and benefits : £60,000 - £75,000 plus 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more
Recruiter: Tim Singh
Who are we?
We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.
We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. 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.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Longevity Sciences team on a fixed term contract for 9 months and learn about longevity risk modelling as we’re currently recruiting for a nearly or newly qualified actuary. See first hand how important the longevity assumptions are to the value of one of the largest annuity books in the UK for both valuation and pricing. And while we continue to see the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 on mortality rates there has never been a more interesting time to get involved in the research and modelling of longevity.
The role
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Longevity Sciences team on secondment and learn about longevity risk modelling as we’re currently recruiting for a nearly or newly qualified actuary.. See first hand how important the longevity assumptions are to the value of one of the largest annuity books in the UK for both valuation and pricing. And while we continue to see the ongoing impacts of COVID-19 on mortality rates there has never been a more interesting time to get involved in the research and modelling of longevity.
What are we looking for?
Longevity experience and the ability to use a variety of diagnostic techniques to analyse a range of business data, making recommendations to senior actuaries and/or senior management to support decision making.
We are also looking for the skill to be able to communicate effectively with a technical actuarial audience and simplify communications of technical issues to a non-technical audience. This will be through the preparation of papers and reports as well as presenting at committees and forums.
The role will involve working to defined and tight timescales whilst maintaining professional standards. This will require balancing business demand, issues and risks by applying sound judgement in complex scenarios, often with considerable uncertainty.
Research & development will form part of this role and so you will be expected to maintain up to date regulatory, business & professional knowledge in the field of longevity and mortality.
As a team that supports the open function, you will also need a good commercial understanding of the business to ensure financial, business & actuarial advice is aligned with the business needs.
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.