Actuary Ireland

Career Family, Level & Title

Actuarial. Intermediate, Lead Professional/Manager

Job Type

Fixed Term Contract

Who are we?

We're Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone's journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we've been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.

Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices. We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards. We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.

We're currently recruiting for an Actuary to join our Actuarial Profession to provide a professional service applying actuarial, technical & business knowledge to support the delivery of informed & effective decision making in order to deliver the company strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the specification, development and testing of complex propositions or numerical models, analysing a range of business data, making recommendations to Senior Actuaries and/or senior management to support decision making.
• Contribute to the preparation of papers and reports for senior management and executives as required, with suitable supervision.
• Lead small scale projects or elements of large scale more complex (12 month plus duration) projects to support the business.
• Act as actuarial subject matter expert on strategic business or Group level projects to ensure specialist input is provided to business decision making.
• Communicate effectively with a technical actuarial audience and simplify communications of technical issues to a non-technical audience.
• Provide technical leadership in key areas of expertise and represent business area appropriately within cross divisional projects.
• Applying commercial understanding of the business to ensure financial, business & actuarial advice is aligned with the business needs.
• Communicating complex concepts and recommendations to multiple stakeholders across the business both in the UK and potentially globally.
• Regularly working to defined and tight timescales whilst maintaining professional standards.

Balancing business demand, issues and risks by applying sound judgement in complex scenarios, often with considerable uncertainty.

What We're Looking For

• Education - Fellow of Institute and Faculty of Actuaries or Society of Actuaries in Ireland.
• Extensive experience of Life Company Solvency II results and financial statements.
• In-depth understanding of Life Company products in particular unit linked life and pension savings products, annuities (immediate and deferred) and protection products.
• Pro active and able to work autonomously.

What We Offer

Bring your "whole self", skills and dedication to the Phoenix Group and we'll recognise your effort, support your development and help to drive your ambition. We'll ensure you're rewarded for your contribution with a competitive package that includes an attractive pension, annual bonus potential, private medical insurance, generous holiday entitlement, enhanced maternity and adoption leave and a range of other financial services and lifestyle flexible benefits.

Analytical Skills

Use of a variety of diagnostic techniques to understand a situation/issue/problem by breaking it down and tracing the root cause/underlying implications in a methodical step by step way.

Commerciality

The ability to be commercially focused at all times.

Communication Skills

Clearly and effectively communicates information, ideas, plans, requests and opinions to internal and external stakeholders through a range of channels including written and oral. Ensures alignment with communication guidelines and policies.

Delivering Results

Meeting and exceeding performance goals and expectations to deliver results.

Impact & Influence

Influencing others to achieve a positive impact. This includes communicating clearly, building support for ideas and having an impact on other people.

Market and Industry Knowledge

Knowledge of the markets, competitors, products, services, trends, impacting forces and factors, etc. that make up the industries which Standard Life operates in.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.