Actuary - Individual Annuities

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The Standard’s Individual Annuities division has an open role responsible for driving and supporting work related to our financial reporting team: FP&A, valuation, reserve analytics, hedging, reinsurance, and business performance. 

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys owning financial results related to highly visible functions that impact our financial results and strategic direction and will play a key role in the production, analysis, and communication of financial results and projections of our MYGA and FIA businesses, partnering closely with pricing, modeling, ALM, and finance teams. 

Responsibilities include reporting, valuation, earnings analysis, reserve attribution analysis, as well as supporting key strategic initiative / teams such as affiliate reinsurance, modeling, VM22 team, and business integration.  This is a high impact individual contributor role, with near term leadership opportunities.

• →Own execution and enhancement of reporting, valuation, earnings analysis, FP&A, and hedging and communicate results to senior management.
• →Design and implement reporting support for functions such as VM22, reinsurance, and business integration.
• →Analyze GAAP, statutory, and management reporting results, including reserves, earnings, and capital movements.
• →Enhance governance model (change management, internal controls, and offshore partner review).
• →Partner with pricing, modeling, and corporate actuarial to ensure consistency in understanding stakeholder needs and effective/aligned story telling.
• →Analyze results—identify drivers, limitations, and opportunities for improvement.
• →Develop and improve analytical tools, reporting processes, and speed / clarity of processes and capabilities.
• →Provide mentorship and project leadership to onshore and offshore team members related to core team responsibilities.

• Prior hands-on experience sufficient to have gained a seasoned actuarial business perspective in the Individual Annuities space is required. (5+ yrs. preferred)
• Modeling experience including change management, internal controls & review required.
• FP&A and FIA financial reporting experience (preferred)
• Experience with GGY AXIS & Python (preferred)

• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to own and explain reserve movements.
• Contributes actuarial, financial and industry expertise combined with unique product line knowledge to positively impact organizational strategy.

Winning together: Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to develops positive internal and external stakeholder relationships by consistently and effectively delivering value. Seeks out and encourages diverse perspectives; helps individuals relate to, understand, and accept other perspectives.

Driving success: Independently drives work forward and takes responsibility for achieving job requirements, tasks, and objectives. Approaches business challenges from a broad perspective and anticipates and removes barriers to accomplish business objectives.  Constantly pursue exceptional results that take us “next level.”

Improvement Mindset: Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new assignments.  Plays a significant role as a resource/mentor to others in the actuarial career. Viewed as a key resource to the division and providing thought leadership in their key areas of responsibilities.  Strives to exceed customer needs. Innovative, brings ideas to life, and seeks continuous improvement. 

Adaptability: Ability to take ambiguous tasks and align it to the working model of the team to ensure execution. Proactively identifies business issues and develops solutions to resolve them.  Approaches business challenges from a broad corporate perspective and assesses business recommendations from a strategic viewpoint.

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