Senior Actuary

Job closing date: 22nd June

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Key support for the ALM & Investments Function to implement and oversee ALM Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in place across the Function, including with Irish Life and CRS Dublin entities.
• Support the ALM Reporting Manager and the wider ALM Function in asset and liability management (ALM) and optimisation across the Canada Life Group European entities, including Irish Life and CRS Dublin entities, in respect of an asset portfolio of £30bn.
• Support the ALM Reporting Manager and the wider ALM Function in development and maintenance of key MI reporting across relevant stakeholders.
• Reports to the ALM Reporting Manager.
• This position would suit a qualified actuary with either life insurance, pensions, or investment experience.
• Key support and stakeholder management pertaining to the delivery of ALM information to multiple internal stakeholder teams, delivering in line with Investment Management Agreements (IMAs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with Irish Life and CRS Dublin.
• Support to the ALM Reporting Manager and the wider ALM Function with formulating asset strategy/mix, taking into account the relative attractiveness of assets under Canadian/UK/EU regulatory regimes.
• Support the ALM Reporting Manager and the wider ALM Function in the optimisation and operation of ALM strategies, producing regular asset/liability projections, developing rebalancing proposals across entity balance sheets with Investments, evaluating new asset classes, and providing regular reporting on trading activities and rationale.
• Support the ALM Reporting Manager in developing, maintaining, and reporting on key MI across relevant stakeholders. Monitor impact of trading and liability changes in quarter.
• Assist in the continuous review and improvement of the ALM Front Office processes and procedures to ensure the provision of timely, accurate, and efficient levels of service.

Qualifications:

• Good understanding of asset classes to enable accurate production of Asset Liability Matching results.
• Good knowledge of IFRS 17 and Bulk Annuities.
• Effective communication skills (able to articulate technical and complex issues clearly both verbally and in writing to senior audiences including non-actuaries).
• Able to develop and consider all solutions to a technical problem, making recommendations and implementing actions as agreed with the ALM Reporting Manager or other key stakeholders.
• Demonstrates personal drive, energy, persistence, and self-motivation and awareness of the needs of the wider business.
• Ability to build sound and trusted relationships both within and external to the team, successfully managing multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrates an understanding and ability to implement/maintain an actuarial control framework and meet governance requirements.
• Proven track record of delivering under tight time pressure.
• Familiarity and experience with Python, Power BI, and VBA would be beneficial, but not essential.
• Experience of managing actuarial students would be beneficial, but not essential.

Benefits of working at Canada Life:

We believe in recognising and rewarding our people, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package that’s regularly reviewed. As a Canada Life UK colleague, you’ll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including a generous pension and bonus scheme, along with income protection, private medical insurance, and life assurance. We have a fantastic number of other benefits and support services as well as regular personal and professional development.

How we work at Canada Life:

Our culture is unique and incredibly important to us. We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers, and community and helping others to build better futures. Our blueprint behaviours shape and influence how we work and are central to the relationships we have with others.

We want colleagues to have rewarding careers with us, so we invest in the development of our people, technology, and workplaces. That’s why we offer a range of training, flexible working, and opportunities to grow and develop.

Diversity and inclusion:

Building an inclusive workplace with a diverse workforce where everyone can feel they belong and achieve their potential regardless of gender, ethnicity, or any other characteristic is a key commitment for us. We are proud of the progress we’re making in DEI, and we continue for it to be a significant focus.

We appreciate that everyone has different work and life responsibilities. We’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part-time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you.