Role Description

The Lead Actuary will be required to:

• Lead the actuarial function including nurturing and encouraging the professional development of the graduates in our actuarial graduate programme.
• Lead the review of existing solutions and the development and implementation of new ones.
• Develop the actuarial business strategy with your peers in the Senior Leadership Team
• Embellish our buy-in/buy-out offering and take-to-market strategy
• Further enhance our calculation modules within our proprietary software Constellation
• Continue to build relationships with senior stakeholders in the financial industry
• Own and deliver to revenue targets as set by the Board
• Assist the sales and client management teams as required

Essential Skills and experience

• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience as an actuary post qualification
• Fully qualified Fellow of the IFoA
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel and VBA skills
• Experience using SQL Databases
• Experience in the Pensions industry (ideally including buy-ins and buy-outs)
• Effective communication and presentation skills
• Management of Junior team members
• Ability to influence and manage senior stakeholders

Desirable skills and experience

R and/ or Python coding
Management experience of up to 10 people

Behaviours

Communicating and Influencing
Communicate clearly and calmly.
Explain technical acronyms and jargon in plain English
Never using inappropriate or offensive language

Developing Self and Others
Maintain a professional Actuarial Qualification (IFoA Fellowship)
Be always aware of team members and act with empathy and care

Leadership
Lead from the front, guide, and coach your team.
Be open and honest and give constructive feedback – regularly

Deliver a Quality Service
Plan your projects meticulously
Use your experience to foresee risks and issues and mitigate as appropriate
Monitor project spend and financials
Deliver on time and budget.
Ensure project milestones are hit and if running over that the timelines can be recovered.
Manage projects up to £500,000

Teamwork
Create a formidable team ethic.
Encourage collaboration between all team members
Be sincere when dealing with team members, a happy team is a successful team.

Certifications Required

IFoA Fellowship

Salary Information

£DOE + very competitive year on year achieved bonus scheme