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Are you looking to further your career as a fully sponsored Actuarial Trainee?  If you are currently studying towards the Faculty and Institute of Actuaries (IFoA) examinations and have relevant actuarial work experience in the Life Insurance sector, with a desire to get involved in data science, we want to hear from you.We are one of the UK’s largest insurers, a FTSE 100 company, and a market leader globally, so we are able to demonstrate all the outstanding expertise we have in house as well as partnering with training providers to help us develop well-rounded Actuaries with insurance orientated actuarial, financial and commercial knowledge.Your first placement will be in the Life Data Science team providing an exciting opportunity to build production-grade analytics models and data processing pipelines that will drive commercial and operational benefits, with an initial focus on the protection trading and underwriting business units. The Life Data Science team provides analytics support across the life business, so this rotation provides an excellent opportunity to compliment your actuarial studies with working alongside data scientists delivering truly innovative change to the business. The candidate would also get to see other areas of the business as part of the trainee rotation scheme.At Aviva we have one of the largest networks of Actuaries in the country so you will be in good hands from the beginning. Your line manager, buddy and your qualified mentor will all work with you and provide encouragement and support throughout your training. You also have a supportive team around you and business-wide networking opportunities to help you succeed. We give our trainees the best chance of passing their exams first time by also:<ul><li>Providing a market competitive salary plus pay rises each time you pass key exams</li><li>Partnering with an internationally recognised training provider</li><li>Providing a generous amount of study leave – up to 50 days paid so that you can balance the demands of studying and working</li><li>Funding students’ membership of the IFoA and examination fees</li></ul>Knowledge &amp; skills we are looking for: <ul><li>Studying towards the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) examinations with a minimum of 6 exams having already been successfully attained (not exemptions)</li><li>Knowledge of life insurance products and processes</li><li>A broad technical knowledge, with an aptitude for building and assessing predictive models.</li><li>Highly numerate and analytical with a developed capability to interpret data and establish alternatives and solutions to complex problems</li><li>A high degree of computer literacy; proficiency in SQL and one of either Python and/or R is a must.</li><li>Knowledge of underwriting would be a plus</li><li>Strong communication skills and an ability to present progress to a range of stakeholders</li><li>Able to work independently and to take ownership of tasks</li><li>Understand risks and how to mitigate them</li></ul>What will you get for this role?<ul><li>A competitive salary depending on location, experience and qualifications</li><li>Generous defined contribution pension scheme</li><li>Annual performance related bonus and pay review</li><li>Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days</li><li>Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family (some exclusions apply)</li><li>Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme</li></ul>Working at Aviva At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take responsibility, and who make good decisions.The way we do this is important too. We’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll make sure we interview you.We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Tawana Chin a call on 07787 251496 or send an email to <a href="mailto:tawana.chin&#64;aviva.com" target="_blank">tawana.chin&#64;aviva.com</a>.*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.

We have a number of Permanent and FTC opportunities for Actuarial Managers across the actuarial reporting, production and capital teams. Your role is to undertake a variety of assignments, ensuring timely high quality deliverables across the actuarial production, reporting and capital teams.Role accountabilities:<ul><li>Responsible for delivery of tasks assigned by engagement managers</li><li>Defining the details of activities required to deliver the tasks and giving direction to junior colleagues</li><li>Responsible for reviewing work carried out by colleagues on assigned tasks</li><li>Supporting planning of work</li><li>Key areas of focus will include some of the following:</li><li>Supporting any change activity designed to accelerate team processes or respond to regulatory change e.g. automation, IFRS17</li><li>Data and model production</li><li>Production of financial results and supporting analysis, including production and analysis of SCR and Risk margin</li></ul>Skills and knowledge:<ul><li>Strong communication skills, verbal and written – ability to communicate complex issues simply, across all levels</li><li>Qualified or nearly qualified actuary</li><li>Strong financial or regulatory reporting experience (both IFRS and Solvency II)</li><li>Ability to work independently and on their own initiative and know when to escalate</li><li>Ability to identify problems and help resolve these or escalate as appropriate</li><li>Good stakeholder management, communication skills and cultural awareness</li></ul>What will you get for this role?<ul><li>A competitive depending on skills, experience and qualifications</li><li>Generous defined contribution pension scheme</li><li>Annual performance related bonus and pay review</li><li>Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days</li><li>Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family (some exclusions apply)</li><li>Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme</li></ul>Working at AvivaAt Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take responsibility, and who make good decisions.The way we do this is important too. We always ‘Care More’. It’s our thing! We’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you!We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Just send us an email once you’ve applied stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll make sure we interview you.We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Daniela Krol a call on 0121 234 7660 or send an email to <a href="mailto:daniela.krol&#64;aviva.com" target="_blank">daniela.krol&#64;aviva.com</a>*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.

We are currently looking for an Actuarial Consultant to join our team.Working in our Bulk Purchase Annuities (BPA) Business you will be responsible for the finalisation modelling of large Pension scheme transactions. This is the last part of the process in our onboarding of new business, and you will be required to work at pace to ensure we meet the deadlines our customers expect.This is an analytical role working with large data sets and our pensions benefits and pricing tools.Role and responsibilities:<ul><li>Analysing data movements between data sets that will have been produced at different times and for different purposes</li><li>Understand what impacts different moves and what these impacts will mean financially</li><li>Adhering to an approval’s framework for both cashflow modelling and pricing</li><li>Reviewing and explaining why pricing has been changed</li><li>You will be responsible for schemes but will need to work with others to peer review work and share ideas on more technical pension schemes</li></ul>Skills and experience we would like to see:<ul><li>Actuarial or Pensions background</li><li>You will have knowledge of defined benefits (DB) pension schemes</li><li>You may be working towards an actuarial or pensions qualification </li><li>An ability to quickly learn and demonstrate proficiency with new software</li><li>Data Analysis skills are key</li></ul>What will you get for this role?<ul><li>Salary up to £45,000 dependant on skills, experience and qualifications</li><li>Generous defined contribution pension scheme</li><li>Annual performance related bonus and pay review</li><li>Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days</li><li>Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply)</li><li>Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme</li></ul>Working at AvivaAt Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take ownership, and who make good decisions.The way we do this is important too, we’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Guv a call on 0750 008 7919 or send an email to <a href="mailto:Guv.johal&#64;aviva.com" target="_blank">Guv.johal&#64;aviva.com</a>.*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.

A fundamental part of operating a life insurance company is understanding the risks that will affect the profits we earn on existing business and the price we need to charge on new business.We use experience analysis to understand the factors that have affected past events and use this, together with available market data and research on trends and future differences, to form a view of what future experience might be across insurance risks (like mortality, persistency and longevity) and financial risks (like bond default risk, property growth rates (which affect mortgage risk) and different types of inflation). The agreed set of assumptions about future experience feed into our financial reporting and solvency measurement, and also into our costing basis which supports our commercial, pricing activity on new business. The purpose of this role is to be part of the team responsible for undertaking research and developing assumption proposals.The Team The Experience Analysis and Assumptions Team reports in to the UKL Actuarial Reporting Lead. It is part of the wider UKL Chief Accounting Officer team.It is responsible for developing, reviewing and securing agreement to the full set of set of assumptions used in reporting and costing – from undertaking research, specifying and sourcing experience analysis investigations, sourcing market data, though to analyzing results, proposing assumptions and taking them through governance. The team is also responsible for reviewing reporting outputs.The assumption set is a key component of our reporting and commercial operations, so you’ll operate under a strong risk management and controls framework, ensuring regulatory compliance and high-quality, timely outputs.Current team members are based in Wellington Row, York but we are very open to new members being based in Bristol.We are supported by the ASEC team in Poland who provide actuarial and analytical support in the experience analysis process.The PersonWe are looking for a qualified or senior part-qualified actuary to join our team, with a particular focus on supporting the assumption setting process for protection business, initially taking the lead on income protection and group protection products.    Duties &amp; Responsibilities<ul><li>You will support the assumption setting process, taking the lead in specified areas – initially income protection and group protection products. In particular, you will:<ul><li> specify and review experience analysis investigations, analyses the results and source other market material,</li><li>develop proposals for the assumption set, and organise expert judgement panels across the business to discuss those proposals</li><li>specify and source impacts from AFO team, and review the results</li><li>produce papers for LMASF and CGC (governance committees for reporting and costing assumptions), and liaise with AFO in implementing them</li><li>respond to audit queries on the assumption set </li><li>support taking assumptions through subsequent governance processes, including summary for Audit Committee of the UKL Board</li></ul></li><li>You will support projects that deepen and broaden Aviva’s understanding of mortality and morbidity, including analysis of external data sets / sources as well as analysis of Aviva’s own experience, and work on improving MI on current year experience</li><li>You will operate, maintain and support the development of systems for analyzing demographic risk (in particular for protection business)</li><li>You will provide timely and reliable support to other areas of the business to help answer their questions on demographic risk</li><li>You will operate under a strong risk management and controls framework, ensuring regulatory compliance</li><li>You will support the high-level review of financial reporting outputs</li></ul>Skills / Experience Required <ul><li>You will be a qualified actuary, or a senior part-qualified actuary with strong skills</li><li>You will have good data handling and analytical skills and be able to work with complex data, identifying themes and trends, building models and interpreting results</li><li>You will be curious and enjoy using your skills and initiative to create new insights</li><li>You will be well-organized, capable of working independently and able to present the results of your work clearly. In particular you will be able to take complex technical concepts and convey them in an easy-to-understand way to suit your audience</li><li>It would be useful if you had experience of producing or using financial reporting and/or solvency results, but this is not essential</li></ul>What will you get for this role?<ul><li>Salary circa £55,000 depending on skills, experience and qualifications</li><li>Generous defined contribution pension scheme</li><li>Annual performance related bonus and pay review</li><li>Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days</li><li>Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply)</li><li>Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme</li></ul>Working at AvivaAt Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take ownership, and who make good decisions.The way we do this is important too, we’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Guv a call on 0750 008 7919 or send an email to <a href="mailto:Guv.johal&#64;aviva.com" target="_blank">Guv.johal&#64;aviva.com</a>.*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.

This is a Fixed Term Contract (FTC) opportunity for 9 months.Aviva Finance Operations (AFO) Group Actuarial Reporting and Capital team collaborates with market teams across Aviva to provide consolidated Group financial reporting results and financial analysis/management information (including forecasts, solvency monitoring, sensitivities and stress and scenario testing). Additionally, the team produces actuarial results for the Group centre and for the Aviva Staff Pension Schemes.AFO have a continuous development and improvement culture across our people, processes and our risk and control environment. An opportunity arisen in the team as we transition IFRS 17 reporting into the AFO Group Actuarial team. The role provides an exciting opportunity to work on Group level results for a Global composite insurer and broaden knowledge across life/GI/investment business in a number of markets.Some of the key responsibilities include:<ul><li>IFRS and SII financial reporting for Life and GI business</li><li>Review of business unit submissions and explanation of financial results</li><li>Production of reporting documents, including the Aviva external results document (the ‘Analyst Pack’) and internal management information documents</li><li>Identifying process improvements and defining the details of activities required to deliver those improvements, giving direction to colleagues as required</li><li>Supporting signoff processes</li><li>Operation of controls</li></ul>Skills &amp; experience we&#39;re looking for:<ul><li>Qualified or nearly qualified actuary</li><li>Some financial or regulatory reporting experience</li><li>Strong communication skills, verbal and written – ability to communicate complex issues simply, across all levels</li><li>Ability to work independently, using their own initiative</li><li>Strong analytical and problem-solving skills</li><li>Ability to identify problems and help resolve these or escalate as appropriate</li><li>Good stakeholder management, communication skills and cultural awareness</li><li>Strong attention to detail/controls focus</li><li>Strong team working and interpersonal skills</li></ul>What will you get for this role?<ul><li>A salary between £45,000-£60,000 depending on location, experience and qualifications</li><li>Generous defined contribution pension scheme</li><li>Annual performance related bonus and pay review</li><li>Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days</li><li>Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family (some exclusions apply)</li><li>Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme</li></ul>Working at AvivaAt Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take responsibility, and who make good decisions.The way we do this is important too. We’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability and we’ll make sure we interview you.We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Guv Johal a call on 0750 008 7919 or send an email to Guv.Johal&#64;aviva.com*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.

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