Senior Actuarial Analyst (Investments)

About The Role

• Support the Investment Team on a range of technical subjects, including Pricing, Assets valuations, Optimisation, and Actuarial concepts.
• Liaise with the ALM team to optimize the cash flow matching and broader MAP considerations from new investment flows and existing portfolio.
• Support Investment Actuarial on developing investment strategy and bond selection, capital efficiency, and profitability.
• Engage with Treasury/Finance on strategic liquidity and collateral management matters.
• Provide Investment team support for the DB business.
• Prepare papers for STILF, MAC, and Credit Committee forums/committees.

Key Accountabilities

• Working with Group Pricing, contribute to the annual and quarterly new business pricing exercises.
• Monitor investment activity versus business plan and other needs.
• Maintain a framework for assessing the ALM impact of investments.
• Provide technical underpinning for Solvency 2, IFRS balance sheet, and liquidity impacts of investment activity.
• Maintain the investment hurdles that determine the return expected on investments.
• Provide actuarial assistance to Prudent Person Principle related workstreams.
• Maintain capital and balance sheet optimization tools.
• Maintain tools that support the assessment of asset eligibility.
• Provide support for investment projects.

About You

• A first-class or upper second-class degree in a subject relevant to finance and/or investments.
• Progress towards actuarial qualification or CFA preferred, but not essential.
• Good modeling skills ideally in VBA & Python, other languages such as R and Julia are also desirable.
• 5+ years relevant experience within Financial Services, Asset Management, Insurance Investment, or Investment Consulting.
• 5+ years working knowledge of long-only credit manager research and/or asset allocation and portfolio construction.
• Fundamental investing knowledge such as asset modeling, with the ability and interest to develop further, and investment function knowledge of a (life) assurer is desirable.

Company Benefits

• A Competitive Salary, Pension Scheme, and Life Assurance
• 25 Days Annual Leave plus an Additional Day on us for your Birthday
• Private Medical Cover and Income Protection
• A generous and highly achievable bonus scheme – paid annually based on individual and company performance against targets
• Opportunity to progress within your career both in-role and within the company
• FREE access to the Headspace App, a 24/7 Employee Assistance Helpline, and Trained Physical & Mental Health First Aiders (On-Site)
• A variety of Employee Funded Benefits available to you via our Online Benefits Portal
• Plus, several additional purchase options available for you and your loved ones

Why Just?

We are committed to building a more sustainable business and have publicly committed to reduce our scope 3 emissions to Net Zero by 2050 and our scope 1 and 2 emissions to Net Zero by 2025. Diversity, Equity, and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority for Just as part of our overall strategy and ensuring all of our people feel proud to work at Just.

What’s clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing, and most importantly - each other.