Actuary (Modelling Team)

6 months ago

Potters Bar, United Kingdom Canada Life Full time

Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.

**Job Purpose**:
To support the delivery of a comprehensive, accurate and timely actuarial modelling production service across CLUK in respect of both the Insurance and Wealth Management business units across a portfolio including Individual and bulk purchase annuities, Protection, Equity Release Mortgage, Bond, SIPP, ISA and GIA products to meet all statutory and regulatory needs.

The role holder will provide effective management of a number of actuarial trainees and analysts within the actuarial modelling team, with a focus on the development and motivation of the team in order to optimise overall team performance.

This actuarial modelling production service includes the valuation of policy liabilities, cash flow matching for ALM purposes, modelled asset valuations and the calculation of regulatory capital requirements in respect of both UK and Canadian reporting regimes under both “base” and “stress” conditions.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Support the delivery of a comprehensive, accurate and timely actuarial modelling production service across CLUK in respect of both the Insurance and Wealth Management business units across a portfolio including Individual and bulk purchase annuities, Protection, Equity Release Mortgage, Bond, SIPP, ISA and GIA products to meet all statutory and regulatory needs.
- Contribute to the production and validation of actuarial data across CLUK in respect of the valuation of actuarial policy liabilities, cash flow matching for ALM purposes, modelled asset valuations and the calculation of regulatory capital requirements in respect of both UK and Canadian reporting regimes under both “base” and “stress” conditions on a quarterly basis.
- This includes updates to assumptions, market and customer data and data validation, model point creation, liabilities and assets value calculations, projections of assets and liabilities to also enable completion of numerous reporting templates and analyses including Profit & Loss attribution and other sensitivities, and testing updates to inputs, processes and systems.
- Provide effective management of a small team of actuarial trainees and analysts. Manage, develop and motivate the team in order to optimise the performance of the team.
- Provide direction and guidance to the more junior staff to ensure all tasks are understood and appropriate processes and guidelines are followed.
- Provide training and develop the skills and knowledge of the team (including providing opportunities for obtaining CPD) so that they have the expertise to achieve the business requirements.
- Plan the work of the team to deliver timely results in a highly controlled, compliant regulatory environment taking account of both regular scheduled activities and adhoc business and key stakeholder requirements.
- Responsible for the modelling and validation of actuarial data across CLUK in respect of the valuation of actuarial policy liabilities, cash flow matching for ALM purposes, modelled asset valuations and the calculation of regulatory capital requirements in respect of both UK and Canadian reporting regimes under both “base” and “stress” conditions to meet additional annual reporting requirements.
- This includes updates to assumptions, market and customer data, data validation, model point creation, liabilities and assets value calculations, projections of assets and liabilities. Enabling the completion of additional reporting templates and sensitivity analyses across all bases and to support the annual ORSA (Own Regulatory and Solvency Assessment), annual basis reviews as well as other modelling runs required on an adhoc basis to support projects and key stakeholder needs.
- Proactively seek opportunities for process development and improvement, and implementation of model changes.
- Manage a strong control environment across the modelling process which is supported by appropriate key risk indicators; recommend and implement improvements to quality and speed across the end to end modelling process
- Maintain up to date process and control documentation and operate other controls required to mitigate risks within appetite in the process.

**Desired Knowledge / Experience / Skills**:
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