Actuary (FSA), Pricing - Savings & Retirement

Job Description

The Savings & Retirement (S&R) team at Pacific Life Re is responsible for sourcing opportunities and executing reinsurance transactions with clients in our target global retirement markets. We deliver bespoke reinsurance solutions to our clients to support policyholders’ retirement needs and financial goals. The Deal Pricing team within S&R is responsible for pricing all products and reinsurance structures across our global markets.

• The team focusses on the cashflow & capital modelling, ensuring the specific products & risks are appropriately captured in pricing. We produce the deal metrics to ensure these meet all pricing hurdles & governance requirements.

• We are responsible for setting the investment strategy for funded transactions and seek to optimize this within our investment risk tolerances. We achieve this by working closely with the ALM and investment management teams.

• Working with the Client Solutions team, we have a strong focus on optimizing deal structuring to provide clients with a strong commercial package whilst ensuring an efficient capital structure for PL Re.

• The team is responsible for the pricing activities related to treaty execution, and ensuring the required information is handed over to the S&R inforce management team for implementation.

We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified actuary with strong technical skills from either an actuarial or investment background to join the S&R Deal Pricing team.

Responsibilities of the role include:

• Managing stakeholders across Deal Pricing, Client Solutions, and investment management to ensure successful and timely delivery of quotes;

• Communicating complex pricing, capital and investment concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, providing insight into key drivers, risks and opportunities;

• Owning quality assurance activities, ensuring pricing outputs are accurate, appropriately controlled and supported by clear audit trails and documentation.

• Contribute to the development and enhancement of pricing methodologies, asset strategies and proposition improvements.

• Lead projects to implement and obtain approval for new methodologies and pricing approaches.

• Identify inefficiencies in pricing processes & controls and contribute to projects implementing improvements to address these as part of PL Re’s drive for process enhancements.

• Understand the drivers of capital requirements for S&R products and how these vary under different reinsurance structures. This includes across economic capital, Bermuda Monetary Authority and NAIC RBC regimes.

• Working with the S&R Insurance Pricing team on understanding benefit structures and developing the insurance basis for S&R transactions.

• Following financial markets and being able to translate and explain changes in the market conditions into changes to pricing. Work with the asset management team to agree investment assumptions for pricing.

• Work with the Client Solutions team to continually develop our proposition and look for and build strategies that manage and mitigate risks such as currency, inflation etc.

• Support the development of analysts’ technical & soft skills through day-to-day collaboration and mentoring.

Core skills and experience:

• Strong technical skills necessary to build & run actuarial/asset models and interpret the results. Prior experience in Pricing is beneficial but not essential. Broad understanding of capital modelling, asset risks & strategies for liability driven investments is desirable

• 5+ years of professional experience in an investment or actuarial team.

• Recently qualified (SOA, IFoA, CFA or similar).

• Ability to work independently on critically reviewing numbers coming out of the model, understanding what drives changes, sense-checking results and suggesting improvements to drive price benefits

• Deal focused individual. Able to work to tight timelines and periods of high-pressure to deliver on pricing commitments to internal stakeholders and clients, often across multiple deals simultaneously.

• Strong Excel skills and experience using actuarial/asset modelling software (e.g. Tyche, Bloomberg)

• Good understanding of market risks (interest rates, FX, credit spread, liquidity) and how they impact insurance capitalization. Understanding of insurance company balance sheets including insurance capital frameworks

• Strong communication skills. Able to communicate complex actuarial concepts to a range of audiences both verbally and written. Experience communicating technical concepts to stakeholders and supporting governance, review and approval processes.

• Able to adapt to changing priorities and switch focus seamlessly.

Whilst candidates do not need all of the experience & skills listed above, they should be able to demonstrate competencies in a sufficient number to be considered for this position.

Working For Pacific Life Re

Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.

Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Life and AD&D
• Long Term Disability Insurance
• Group Registered Pension Plan
• Social insurance and employee payroll tax
• Corporate Travel Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Gym Membership
• Housing Allowance

You Can Be Who You Are

We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees, partners and communities. We support all employees to thrive and achieve their fullest potential.

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.

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