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We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as an Actuarial Technician to join our Financial Planning and Analysis team.
Who are we?
We want to be the best place that any of our 6,800 colleagues have ever worked.
We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer our 12 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£259 billion of assets under administration. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.
The role
In this role the successful candidate will support the production of monthly financial management information (MI) as well as supporting continuous improvement and projects. On a day-to-day basis this could involve reviewing and processing impacts through our spreadsheets, liaising with stakeholders and monitoring controls.
It's a varied role where you will be able to put your problem-solving skills and initiative to good use in helping to communicate the key drivers behind our results. It’s also a good opportunity to build knowledge of the life insurance business.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide input into the development of financial processes to ensure the production of the required outputs is in an efficient manner as possible.
- Ensure all data is prepared and reported in accordance with relevant reporting standards and business reporting requirements.
- 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.
- Ensuring a continually high quality of output to ensure solutions are a good fit for the end user and/or for further input.
Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.
Salary and benefits: Up to £30k plus 8% bonus up to 16%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more
What are we looking for?
Essential
- Experience in an actuarial role, or relevant degree level qualification
- Strong Excel and MS office skills
- Strong organisational skills
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritise effectively while maintaining high standards
- Confident working in a fast-paced changing environment
- Good written and verbal communication skills
Desirable
- Experience of Life Insurance products, processes and reporting
- Problem solving ability
- Experience delivering continuous improvement
We want to hire the whole version of you
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.
