Senior Actuarial Specialist – Retail Protection Product Development

Role Overview

• Play a leading role in the design and ongoing management of the Retail Protection product ranges.
• Leverage actuarial expertise to provide product support on technical product rules, underwriting and claims to solve business challenges and address customer or advisor queries.
• Produce and maintain product specification documents related to the above.
• Apply a risk management and market conduct lens across tasks to ensure robust product design and decision making.
• Incorporate regulatory impacts into retail protection product design and correspondence.
• Work cross-functionally to deliver on pre-defined pieces of work and support the technical actuarial aspects of the delivery of end-to-end solutions.
• Manage stakeholder expectations.
• Drive process efficiencies and innovation by leveraging technology, data, market insights and design thinking.

Requirements

• Nearly or newly qualified actuary, or actuarial student with excellent exam progress, and a minimum of 4 years’ relevant experience.
• Product development experience would be an added advantage.
• Exposure to coding or process automation will be beneficial.
• Business acumen and negotiation skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams with diverse skill sets.
• Ability to work independently, as well as in a team.
• Ability to work on a wide range of deliverables over a given period of time.
• Ability to complete tasks within agreed timelines with minimal guidance.
• Capacity to work under pressure when required.

Benefits

• Exposure to a wide range of complex retail protection products to grow your technical product development expertise.
• Ability to bring forward creative ideas to support the business in responding to internal and external challenges including using technology and digital solutions to rethink and optimise ways of work.
• Being part of a dynamic team focused on reshaping the proposition and associated processes to deliver customer value and support advisors in a competitive market.
• Build your stakeholder engagement skills.