Assurance - Actuarial Science - Manager - //

A career within Actuarial Services, will provide you with the opportunity to contribute general insurance advice and consulting services to clients such as insurers, banks, regulators, and third party administrators. You’ll provide advice covering solvency, economic capital, risk management, mergers and acquisitions, company restructuring and risk control, financial modelling, underwriting, new legislation, and the efficiency of claims or reporting processes. Simply put, you might help analyse the impact that new regulation will have on an insurance company’s balance sheet or you could be revising businesses’ projections and making sure they have adequate reserves.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

Responsibilities

As a Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

Develop new skills outside of comfort zone.
Act to resolve issues which prevent the team working effectively.
Coach others, recognise their strengths, and encourage them to take ownership of their personal development.
Analyse complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
Address sub-standard work or work that does not meet firm's/client's expectations.
Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.
Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarising key points.
Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

You will play an integral role in leveraging sophisticated actuarial

software to develop, test and run models that perform a variety of

complex calculations for our life, annuity, and health insurance

clients which includes the following but are not limited to:

Supporting the audits of several of the largest insurers in

the world. This includes public, private and mutual

insurers. It also includes the insurance operations of

several banks and private equity firms.

Primarily using Axis and Prophet but also using other

vendor software or work on models developed by our

clients.

Designing, building and testing new models for our

clients. We also convert existing models to models

supported by other vendors. The models are used for

financial and capital reporting, testing client’s models,

and mergers and acquisitions activities.

Using these actuarial models, our team also performs

valuation and reporting services for our clients as part of

our managed service offering.

Specific Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To

Participating in a wide range of projects and collaborating

across multiple work streams or teams; consistently

demonstrating creative thinking, individual initiative and

timely completion of assigned work.

Consistently demonstrating teamwork dynamics by

working as a team member: understanding personal and

team roles; contributing to a positive working

environment by building solid relationships with team

members; proactively seek guidance, clarification and

feedback.

Ability to prepare deliverables within stringent deadlines.
Keep up to date with local, national and international

business and economic issues.

Contribute to the development of your own and team’s

technical acumen.

Serve as participant on communications with numerous

Engagement teams

A career in this practice will provide you the opportunity to

help organizations by providing technical actuarial services.

You will have the opportunity to specialize in some of the

Following

Demonstrating extensive thorough knowledge of, and/or

success in managerial roles involving, technical actuarial

subject matter specialization, especially in Life or Non-

Life industry and regulatory developments.

Demonstrating some proven knowledge of database

structures and data process flows.

Demonstrates some proven abilities and/or success with

using actuarial software, preferably Axis or Prophet.

Demonstrating some proven abilities and/or success as a

team leader: creating a positive environment by

monitoring workloads of the team while meeting client

expectations and respecting the work-life quality of team

members; providing candid, meaningful feedback in a

timely manner; keeping leadership informed of progress

and issues; answering questions and providing direction

to less-experienced staff.

Demonstrating some proven level abilities and/or success

with writing, communicating, facilitating, and presenting

cogently; to and/or for all levels of industry audiences,

clients and internal staff and management.

Qualification -

Minimum Educational Qualifications:Bachelor's degree in any of the following areas of study;

Actuarial Science, Statistics, Mathematical Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, Economics, Other related fields of Study may be considered"

Relevant Qualification- Associate of the IAI / IFoA (or equivalent) required

Fellow of the IAI / IFoA (or equivalent) Preferred or Actively pursuing the Fellowship of the IAI / IFoA (or equivalent)
Certification requirement may be waived if the candidate has more experience in the relevant field"

Experience - 5+ years