Manager, Actuarial

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EY Life Actuarial is hiring! Join our award-winning actuarial team and work with some of the strongest actuarial practitioners on a range of exciting client projects. Our client base is diverse. We work in the insurance sector with traditional insurers and reinsurers both in the UK and globally, with the Life Actuarial practice being a core component of our insurance sector service offering.

More broadly we support clients such as asset managers, hedge funds, industry bodies and start-ups, to name a few, who interact with insurers or insurance business.

Our UK team is one of the largest of EY’s actuarial practices globally, regularly supporting other actuarial teams in different locations as well as service lines in the UK. The size of the practice and range of projects available gives our team members a diverse and challenging environment to continually develop and learn.

We want actuaries who are not just great technicians but brilliant consultants. Actuaries who can build networks, spot industry trends and solve industry problems. If you are interested, please read on and apply.

We are looking for a high performing Manager to join our Life Actuarial practice. As a member of the team, you will be at the front and centre of delivering exciting client work and working with our internal teams to turn the latest ideas into client ready propositions. As a Manager, you will be in the critical and pivotal role of managing the projects, under supervision of the senior members of our team.

This includes liaising with clients and the senior team members, managing the junior team, driving the delivery, and managing the operational metrics of the project.

The work we deliver is broad, and includes:

• Traditional reporting and audit support
• Mergers & acquisitions, both buy and sell side due diligence
• Capital management, including regulatory support such as Internal Model reviews/applications and strategic change, such as optimisation, Part VII transfers and independent expert support
• Transformation including accounting change and operational change
• Technology enabled transformation and AI
• Investment advisory, supporting both insurers and asset managers interfacing with insurers

This role can be based out of London, Bristol or Edinburgh.

• You will assist in the delivery of key projects for our clients on a wide range of topics
• You will create innovative and commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational teams and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership
• You will manage the operational metrics on projects, including working through resourcing, budgeting and scoping with the senior team and clients
• You will contribute to improving operational efficiency on projects and internal initiatives, consistently driving projects to completion making sure that the work delivered is best in class
• You will be expected to manage your time and be responsible for delivering to both clients and internal stakeholders, keeping a clear focus on anticipating and identifying risks, and elevate issues as appropriate
• Working closely with colleagues, you will create a positive learning culture and coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop
• You will contribute to the development of EY capabilities in technical areas and engage with clients regarding the application of these methodologies to their businesses
• You will collaborate…