Finance Specialist

3 weeks ago

Stirling, United Kingdom M&G plc Full time

At M&G our purpose is to help people manage and grow their savings and investments, responsibly. As a business, we are continuing to take steps towards a sustainable future, delivering better long-term solutions for our customers and clients and identifying new opportunities to make a positive impact for our environment and communities. To help us achieve our vision we’re looking for exceptional people who live our values of care and integrity and who can inspire others; embrace change; deliver results and keep it simple.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

The Role:
The M&G plc Finance function has four strategic priorities:
1. Supporting the financial strength of the business by successfully balancing the competing demands of commerciality and prudence in a well governed and controlled environment

2. Delivering clear and incisive decision support, through commercially focused business partnering and by providing transparent, risk based advice underpinned by a fully embedded materiality framework

3. Creating a truly agile Finance function, which is responsive to changing market conditions and client requirements

4. Ensuring best in class service delivery through robust service management and through the delivery of efficient and optimised processes

This Finance Specialist will sit within Actuarial Operations and will contribute to the achievement of one or more of these outcomes in order to deliver the vision for Finance.

Experienced Colleague:

- Accountable for providing a quality service to customers and stakeholders, using skills/experience built through significant practical experience or training
- Works within established frameworks and procedures, with the freedom to interpret them to solve a range of problems
- Delivers outputs that are clearly defined, using discretion over how to achieve them
- Makes suggestions for improvements to the work of the team, based on previous experience and knowledge of similar situations

Key responsibilities for this role:
The role offers the opportunity to be involved in a wide range of Actuarial Operations work supporting Finance and the wider business, including:

- the provision of technical actuarial calculations and maintenance of the transfer and commutation bases for non-profit and with-profit annuities;
- liaising with stakeholders across the wider business and with external parties to ensure understanding of complex and technical actuarial information, developing relationships with key business areas;
- development and review of documented calculation bases for preparing illustrations and administration system calculations for our new and existing life, pension and investment products; and
- supporting investigations into actuarial calculation related queries raised by other Actuarial areas and the wider business.

Key knowledge, skills and experience:

- Previous experience within an actuarial team
- Highly effective communication skills, both written and oral
- Able to disseminate quality information to internal and external stakeholders
- Experience of developing a broad base of relationships with key contacts across Finance and with key business stakeholders
- Comfortable communicating business issues to appropriate parties and providing support to stakeholders

Work Grade Level: Experienced Colleague

Close Date: 28th February 2024

We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality or disability we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.

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