Manager - Financial Services - Insurance and Actuarial Advisory Services - Modeling

Location:

New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Hartford, Boston

Put simply, our actuarial advisers deliver creative and innovative thinking to clients worldwide, supporting them in making confident financial judgements in support of their business goals. Here, you’ll be right at the heart of that mission, leading engagement teams, working directly with clients, mentoring and developing team members and building your personal brand as a leader in your field.

• Model development and optimization
• Model validations and efficiency assessments
• Actuarial transformation
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Financial and regulatory reporting

• Consistently deliver quality client services and drive high-quality work products within expected time frames and on budget. Monitor progress, manage risk and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
• Collaborate with clients in tackling unique and complex business issues using innovative solution development, leadership and a strong EY team.
• Cultivate and manage business development opportunities, understanding EY and its service lines and actively assessing ways to serve clients. Develop and maintain long-term client relationships and networks and develop relationships with team members across all EY practices to serve client needs.
• Demonstrate in-depth technical capabilities and professional knowledge. Demonstrate ability to quickly assimilate new knowledge, maintain good business acumen and remain current on new developments in advisory services capabilities and industry knowledge.
• Understand/communicate complex actuarial issues. Stay informed of and apply professional standards and firm policies (e.g., Actuarial Standards of Practice).
• Develop a strong personal brand and enhance the EY brand by writing articles, participating in industry groups and speaking at seminars.
• Foster an innovative and inclusive team-oriented work environment, counseling and mentoring junior consultants within the organization. Provide constructive feedback and coaching to team members in real time.

• A bachelor’s degree in actuarial science, Mathematics, Statistics or another related major
• Approximately 5+ years of relevant experience, including at least 2 years of people and/or project management
• Fellowship in the Society of Actuaries
• Experienced in at least one prominent actuarial modeling software platform, including but not limited to:
  Moodys GGY AXIS, FIS Prophet, Milliman ALFA/Integrate, Aon Benfield Path Wise, Slope, Poly Systems, among others.
• Strong writing, presentation, conceptual, analytical, project management, and interpersonal skills
• A proven ability to manage time while working on multiple, often shifting, projects, and the confidence to work both collaboratively and independently under pressure
• Willingness and ability to travel to meet client needs

• Experienced in several platform library coding modules specific to actuarial modeling platforms (asset, liability, economic-related modules)
• Experienced in solution design and translation of business requirements into modeling solutions
• Experienced in model staging and development, including coding, data transformation and prep, batch creation and automation, assumption management, and extraction/manipulation of model output
• Experienced in model development lifecycle processes and activities, including model change management, unit and user acceptance testing procedures
• Knowledge of US Life, Health and Annuity products, including prominent features, product dynamics, and key modeling considerations. Associated regulations, including STAT/GAAP reporting with considerations of emerging frameworks (such as VM-22) are also encouraged.
• Experienced in asset modeling and ALM-related concepts, including asset model staging, processing data from externally projected asset sources, asset/liability interaction modeling, reinvestment modeling, and management of run time/fidelity trade-offs
• Experience with open-source coding paradigms such as Python, R, Julia, others
• Project management experience…