Actuarial Reporting Manager Canada Life Reinsurance

Role Overview

After a very successful period of growth CL Re has developed a significant and diverse portfolio of reinsurance transactions. The Actuarial Reporting team is a cornerstone of the Actuarial Function. The team is responsible for the actuarial reporting deliverables of the Dublin office (actuarial liabilities, earnings analyses, capital, ALM reporting, business plan, financial condition testing etc.).

A bright, talented and motivated individual is sought to fill a Manager role on the Structured Reinsurance Reporting team. This role would suit a curious, ambitious, and innovative actuary who:

• Enjoys working in a fast paced, dynamic and innovative environment.
• Relishes the opportunity to work with complex and innovative reinsurance transactions and the associated actuarial methodologies.
• Has an appetite for accelerated development and career progression.

What you will help us to achieve

In this role the successful candidate will:

• Produce the financial and capital reporting deliverables for CL Re’s significant and expanding portfolio of structed transactions. This includes:
• The quarterly liabilities, earnings, and capital reporting deliverables.    
• The annual business plan and the annual Financial Condition Testing (FCT) of that business plan.
• Work closely with the wider Dublin teams to ultimately deliver high standard reporting output (e.g., New Business, Operations, Finance…etc.).
• Analyse transaction performance to provide a detailed breakdown of the liability movements, earnings and capital impacts arising from experience and share key insights with the Business.
• Draft accurate, clear, and concise documentation and effectively communicate key insights and results to all stakeholders.
• Work on the design, development, planning and implementation of improvements to transaction reporting models and processes (including governance and controls) to optimise existing reporting, accelerate reporting timelines and enhance the controls environment.
• Work with the Business Development team, the Operations team, the Finance team and the various actuarial teams to implement new transactions.
• Support the training, development and management of more junior members of the team as the opportunity and need present.
• Keep up to date with emerging experience and best practice through engagement with colleagues across Lifeco, the relevant professional bodies and individual research.
   

What you will need to be successful in the role

The ideal candidate will have:

• An actuarial qualification with at least three years in a life insurance or life reinsurance environment.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret model results, review for reasonableness and understand the implications.
• An assertive and self-motivated personality with the capacity to work autonomously, as part of a team and across teams.
• An enthusiastic approach to work with a strong work ethic, a keen appetite to learn and develop and a willingness to work to a flexible schedule.
• An ability to plan work, manage time effectively and deal with changing requirements to ensure timely completion of all deliverables.
• The capacity to solve problems and make decisions effectively and efficiently.
• Well-developed verbal and written communication skills.
• Extensive experience with MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint.
• Experience working with actuarial modelling (e.g., Excel, Prophet), data management (e.g., SQL) and data visualisation (e.g., PowerBI) software.

Key Competencies