Phoenix Careers – Senior Actuarial Technician In Edinburgh

Overview

Position Title: Senior Actuarial Technician

Company: Phoenix Group

Location: Edinburgh, UK

Job Description

As one of the UK’s Top Employers we’ve brought together businesses with long, successful histories and many strengths. More than ever, people need help and guidance from a company which is simple to deal and who they trust. And that’s where you come in.

Responsibilities:

• Production of various processes linked to our actuarial valuation model including collating and validating results from valuation runs.
• Manipulation of excel spreadsheets and parameters to produce manual calculations for onward review by the Validation Actuaries.
• Production of key analysis tools to support the Review Actuaries in signing off results including Analysis of Change, Profit and Loss Attribution, Assumption Setting and other sensitivities
• Ensure all data is prepared and reported in accordance with relevant reporting standards and business reporting requirements.
• Undertake project work to support the development of robust and effective financial reporting.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities.
• Support Senior Actuarial Analysts, Actuaries and other senior managers in their objective of meeting business and regulatory requirement, including communication of Actuarial results and analysis.
• Balancing competing priorities on different pieces of work in challenging timescales.
• Being able to adapt to the requirements of different types of work by planning and organising effectively.
• Keeping technical & business knowledge up to date in area of expertise.

Requirements:

• A basic understanding of relevant actuarial technical concepts and the ability to apply this appropriately to the work undertaken
• Experience of working within a Finance or Actuarial department
• Education – Undergraduate Degree (or equivalent)