ROLE DESCRIPTION: As an Actuarial Manager, you'll actively establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships. You'll identify potential business opportunities for the company, create innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership. You'll actively contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives, consistently drive projects to completion and make sure that work delivered is of a high quality. Under the guidance of your seniors, you'll lead teams or parts of teams on engagements, depending on the size of the engagement. You'll keep a clear focus on anticipating and identifying risks, and escalate issues as appropriate. Working closely with colleagues, you'll create a positive learning culture and coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop.
 
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Actuarial Managers will be expected to develop a number of areas of technical excellence. You'll participate in the research and development required to support the growth of these fields of expertise. You'll be responsible for the management of these key projects to clients.
The fields of excellence typically cover technical skills in a number of the following areas: • Pricing • Liability Valuation & Reserving • Capital and Risk Management • Asset Liability Matching • Mergers & Acquisition Advice • Shareholder Value • Economic Value Management • Claims Advisory Services • Customer Analytics • Pensions Strategy (Non standard areas)
Such technical expertise being used to: • Contribute to development of the company's capability in these areas • Engage with clients regarding the application of these methodologies to their business •
 
ADDITIONAL SKILLS:
• Track record with a blue chip consulting firm and/or a blue chip firm • Developing industry profile through client and industry activities • Experience in business development • Strong academic record including a degree and professional actuarial qualification
 
CLIENT RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Participate in Actuarial engagements • Assist in managing the financial aspects of engagements by organizing staffing, tracking fees and communicating issues to project leaders • Participate in business development initiatives Build strong internal relationships within Advisory and across other services
 
PEOPLE RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring staff • Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff • Contribute to people initiatives, including recruiting, retaining and training actuarial professionals • Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills • Able to manage and work effectively in teams • Professional attitude/demeanour, honesty • "Self starter" with proactive approach • Strong project and people management skills