Manager - Actuarial - Life Assurance

Exp: 8-15 Years

Key responsibilities:

Undertake numerical analysis and manipulation using a range of systems and actuarial tools

Take responsibility for delivering a range of actuarial tasks, producing results to agreed standards and deadlines and approving content.

Provide support and guidance to more junior members of the team in a range of project work as and when required.-

Managing the projects team and own the delivery of that team for allocated pieces of work or project management.

Support various business development opportunities within the Group. This will include lead generation, understanding stakeholder requirements, proposal building presentation, negotiation and engagement closures.

Manage stakeholder expectations, plan and execute work to time and quality standards, manage resource utilization and recruitment

Seek and act on opportunities to develop wider and deeper technical and business understanding.

Draft and maintain up-to-date, appropriate documentation and checklists.

Performance Management Follow and contribute to the recognized Performance Management process.-

Ensure delivery of- People Management- and that all its processes and tools are fully utilized in managing people allocated to him/her.

Other Responsibilities:

Compliance Ensure ; understanding and adherence to Code of Conduct and, where appropriate, comply with all relevant regulatory policies. This includes completion of any mandatory training requirements.

Financial Controls : Ensure all expenditure commitments (orders, contracts, budgets etc) and all payments are properly authorized, controlled and monitored, in accordance with delegated authority requirements. The responsibilities of expenditure authorizes are documented in the Procedures Manual.

Part responsibility of owning and driving some of the KPIs for the Mumbai team which could include managing the P&L account, resource management, recruitment, stakeholder management, etc

People Manager:

Ability to manage and motivate a team of actuarial student /newly qualified actuaries-

Ability to plan and prioritize own and team's workload.

Ability to deliver on multiple tasks to demanding timescales.

Communicate effectively with others, develop positive networks and working relationships.

Ability to independently handle a project and carry out resource and budget management.

Ability to build, organize and provide leadership for a team of specialist actuarial staff, with a variety of responsibilities.

Ability to effectively influence and liaise with senior management up to Executive Team level.

Ability to effectively provide Actuarial input to cross-divisional initiatives.

Ability to plan, prioritize, allocate resources and delegate appropriately.

Strong Stakeholder management skills.

Skills required:

8 - 10 years of relevant Actuarial experience-

Fellow of the Faculty or Institute of Actuaries or the Institute of Actuaries of India.

Should have accumulated 12-15 Actuarial examinations

Strong understanding of the Financial Services industry and regulatory environment.

As a Fellow of the faculty or institute of actuaries the person will need to follow the Continued Professional Development (CPD) Requirements as laid down by the Institute and Faculty-

Experience of financial reporting and actuarial modeling for a- Life Assurance company.

Excellent knowledge insurance industry related products.

Thorough understanding of at least three functions / teams within Actuarial and ability to deliver on assigned tasks independently.