Who are we?
We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.
Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices. We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return we expect curiosity, connection, accountability and high standards. We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.
- Contribute to the specification, development and testing of complex propositions or numerical models, analysing a range of business data, making recommendations to Senior Actuaries and/or senior management to support decision making.
- Contribute to the preparation of papers and reports for senior management and executives as required, with suitable supervision.
- Lead small scale projects or elements of large scale more complex (12 month plus duration) projects to support the business.
- Act as actuarial subject matter expert on strategic business or Group level projects to ensure specialist input is provided to business decision making.
- Communicate effectively with a technical actuarial audience and simplify communications of technical issues to a non-technical audience.
- Provide technical leadership in key areas of expertise and represent business area appropriately within cross divisional projects.
- Applying commercial understanding of the business to ensure financial, business & actuarial advice is aligned with the business needs.
- Communicating complex concepts and recommendations to multiple stakeholders across the business both in the UK and potentially globally.
- Regularly working to defined and tight timescales whilst maintaining professional standards.
Balancing business demand, issues and risks by applying sound judgement in complex scenarios, often with considerable uncertainty.
- Education - Fellow of Institute and Faculty of Actuaries or Society of Actuaries in Ireland
- Languages - English
- Extensive experience of Life Company Solvency II results and financial statements
- In-depth understand of Life Company products in particular unit-linked life and pension savings products, annuities (immediate and deferred) and protection products.
- Pro-active and able to work autonomously
Analytical Skills
Commerciality
Communication Skills
Delivering Results
Impact & Influence
We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.
We’re reviewing applications as they come in, so apply early to avoid missing out.
Find out more about working at Standard Life
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Skills Required
- Fellow of Institute and Faculty of Actuaries or Society of Actuaries in Ireland
- Extensive experience of Life Company Solvency II results and financial statements
- In-depth understanding of Life Company products, especially unit-linked life and pension savings products
What We Do
Standard Life champions the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, using our size, expertise and influence - to shape the world our customers will retire into.
