Associate Director Reserving (General Insurance)

Location: Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester

Department: Technology & Transformation

Type: Permanent / FTC

Job Reference: 19923

Connect to your Industry

Join Deloitte's leading Actuarial Insurance practice and apply your skills in projects reaching beyond traditional actuarial boundaries. You'll work with colleagues and clients in Audit, Tax, Consulting, and Financial Advisory, exposing you to cutting-edge actuarial work in a strategic, consulting, and transactional context.

Here you'll develop an impressive range of commercial consulting skills that will increase your career options and opportunities in the market.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

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We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. Our values guide us to deliver impact where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

As an Associate Director in our team, you'll work closely alongside Partners, Directors, and Senior Managers and play a key role in influencing and shaping the strategic direction and development of the team. You will have the opportunity to:

• Demonstrate your leadership capabilities to effectively manage diverse teams, fostering an inclusive culture.
• Support the leadership of client engagements and develop strong long-term client relationships as a trusted business advisor in the General Insurance sector.
• Develop propositions and support the growth of our business.
• Leverage existing relationships and develop new ones with clients, identifying new opportunities for Deloitte.
• Play an active role in the recruitment and career development of junior team members.
• Learn from the best in the business.

You will have responsibility for:

• Building out Deloitte’s offerings across insurance audit, independent reserve reviews, M&As, and transformation.
• Managing client projects, ensuring timely delivery and high quality of outputs.
• Defining client deliverables, plans, and approaches.
• Managing teams of junior staff as part of a larger project.
• Having client contact, leading meetings, and working on client sites.
• Working with a range of Deloitte’s technology and vendor alliances.
• Supporting business development and taking accountability for a sub-area of practice management roles.

Our practice has both breadth and technical depth, which is increasingly important in an ever-changing general insurance landscape. You can expect to be involved in a wide variety of assignments. UK Personal & Commercial lines and/or London Market and prior consulting experience is particularly desirable.

The key services you will be involved in include:

• External Audit Reserving across UK and global personal and commercial businesses.

You are likely to be involved in:

• Independent reserve reviews.
• M&A due diligence and transactions advisory.
• Internal audit support.
• Other expert and advisory work.

In addition, you could be involved in projects such as:

• Underwriting & Pricing Transformation.
• Actuarial, Finance, Capital, and Business Partnering transformation.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Essential:

• Qualified Actuary or equivalent via experience.
• Experience in the UK non-life insurance industry.
• Strong reserving background, including experience across several lines.
• Knowledge of Solvency II/UK, IFRS17.
• Some capital modelling experience.
• Ability to apply knowledge in practical and commercial situations.
• Track record of completing packages of work or small projects successfully.
• Team management experience.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.

Desirable:

• Practising Certificate (Chief Actuary or Lloyds Signing Actuary, dependent on industry focus and level of experience).

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Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in one of our UK offices with hybrid working. At Deloitte, we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. We support flexible working through our hybrid working policy.

Our commitment to you

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Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see.