Location and flexible working: Wythall (Birmingham) or Edinburgh. All 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.
Job Type : 6 Month Fixed Term
Closing Date : 10th March
Salary and benefits: Up to £90,000 dependent upon experience plus 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more
Recruiter : Douglas Smith
We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a With Profits Technical Actuary supporting our With Profits Product Simplification project.
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.
The role
You will support a significant change programme that will deliver structural changes to our with-profits products supporting key strategic aims. Being responsible for developing proposals and solutions to simplify our with-profits products and benefit calculations, ensuring they provide our with-profits customers with good outcomes along with performing analysis to consider the fairness of proposals for different groups of customers, providing detailed interpretation and making recommendations to senior management to support decision making.
You will be leading the preparation of papers and reports for senior management, committees and potentially the Regulator and presenting proposals to a range of stakeholders, simplifying communications of technical issues to a non-technical audience along with drafting communications to customers informing them of changes that will impact them, ensuring communications are clear, accurate and straightforward to understand
What We’re Looking For
1. Qualified actuary with experience in the Life Insurance or Pensions industry ideally with With-profits experience
2. Ideally have experience in delivering structural changes to with-profits funds or products along with experience of working on actuarial projects to deliver change
3. Strong problem solving and analytical skills, and the ability to work quickly and accurately with a high attention to detail
4. Strong project management and delivery skills with the ability to meet the varied demands from both internal and external stakeholders
5. Excellent communications skills, with the ability to clearly and effectively communicate technical concepts to a range of stakeholders
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.
Please note that we reserve the right to remove adverts earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity.