Jobs at Athene

The role involves leading the negotiation and execution of legal agreements related to insurance M&A and reinsurance transactions. It requires providing legal advice, managing transaction workstreams, and coordinating with internal teams and external counsel to support Athene's growth strategy in the life and annuity sector.

Lead transaction underwriting and execution for reinsurance and M&A, managing pricing models, due diligence, actuarial assumption setting, structuring, approvals, and post-deal integration. Supervise technical pricing team, collaborate with internal/external stakeholders, prepare recommendations and reports, mentor junior staff, and ensure confidentiality.

The Senior Manager Tax oversees tax accounting and compliance, manages tax provisions, prepares corporate tax returns, and enhances tax processes while mentoring team members.

Support pricing and execution of flow reinsurance transactions via actuarial modeling, analysis, and diligence. Develop and maintain pricing models and tools, analyze product features and transaction structures, and assess profitability and risk. Collaborate with finance, investments, legal, risk, accounting, and corporate development. Improve model controls, documentation, processes, and automation/AI workflows while monitoring regulatory and industry developments.

Manage derivative middle-office trade support, data management, accounting oversight, and legal compliance. Serve as systems SME, resolve trade/data breaks, oversee third-party providers, support projects and regulatory changes.

Support statutory income statement projections, legal entity forecasting, capital plan and tax forecasting. Prepare templates, reconcile actuals to forecasts, analyze variances, maintain financial models, and coordinate with Accounting, Capital, Tax, Actuarial, Treasury, and FP&A teams to produce accurate management reporting.

Lead analysis for medium-to-large strategic projects on the ALIP policy admin system. Elicit, document, and translate business and technical requirements into user stories, coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, guide other analysts, recommend process redesigns, and support vendor RFI/RFP activities.

Lead and execute risk-based internal audits and SOX activities, assess cross-functional controls, partner with business leaders, leverage data and automation to improve audit effectiveness, support audit planning and regulatory interactions, and mentor team members to strengthen risk management and governance.

Manage third-party flow reinsurance client relationships and support business development. Analyze markets, due diligence materials, and pricing models; produce quotes, treaty and product summaries; participate in transaction structuring, negotiation, closing, and post-close management. Support client meetings and other department projects.

Execute risk-based internal audits, support audit planning and SOX testing, assess complex business processes, partner with stakeholders to drive remediation, and enhance audit methodologies using data analytics, automation, and AI.

Lead FP&A analysis, forecasting, and optimization of enterprise financial performance. Maintain the enterprise forecast model, build analytics to explain variances in Spread Related Earnings and KPIs, partner cross-functionally (Actuarial, Risk, Treasury, IT, Apollo), and prepare executive-ready analyses and presentations to support strategic decisions.

Lead Athene's New Business Operations including processing, suitability, and hybrid contact center. Drive operational excellence via process optimization, analytics, automation, cross-functional partnership, compliance, and people leadership to improve producer and policyholder experience and support growth.

Lead technology, cybersecurity, and AI risk assessments; improve governance, controls, and regulatory compliance; manage enterprise technology risk register and remediation; support audits, third-party and customer security reviews; enhance GRC processes, automation, reporting, and incident preparedness across teams.

The BlackLine System Administrator oversees the BlackLine tool, ensuring efficient operation, user support, process improvements, and compliance with policies. Responsibilities include administration, training, liaising with IT, and driving enhancements.

Support IBD channel by partnering with Regional VPs to grow advisor relationships and annuity sales. Execute territory plans, prospect via outbound calls, provide consultative product support and illustrations, coordinate webinars and marketing, maintain CRM documentation, collaborate to resolve operational issues, and use data and AI-enabled tools to prioritize opportunities while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Lead architecture, development, and operational excellence for a greenfield institutional administration platform. Design integrations with finance systems, champion modern cloud-native and AI-enabled engineering practices, mentor engineers, ensure production readiness, incident response, security, and auditability for business-critical financial services.

The Director will lead pension risk transfer transactions, coordinating across teams, managing workstreams, and ensuring successful execution and client engagement.

Provide strategic legal counsel to Vitera leadership on commercial, product, technology, and regulatory matters. Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial, SaaS, data-sharing, and vendor agreements. Structure partnerships across the defined contribution ecosystem, mitigate legal and regulatory risk, support product and operations implementation, coordinate with outside counsel (including ERISA specialists), and contribute to governance, policy, and communications review.

The Actuarial Manager leads EBS valuation processes, partners across teams for financial insights, supports strategic transactions, and mentors junior actuaries.

Lead statutory reserve calculations and end-to-end valuation production for U.S. annuity products, ensuring compliance with CARVM/PBR and state regulations. Manage a team, coordinate external audits, implement new transactions and reinsurance into statutory processes, oversee actuarial inputs to capital templates, and maintain auditor-defensible documentation, controls, and data pipelines.