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About The Role
Team – Actuarial - Life
Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality London Office. Full time, 37.5 hours per week.
Top 3 skills needed for this role:
- Proven actuarial experience analysis & assumption setting
- Strong commercial insight
- Experienced stakeholder & governance leadership
What this role is all about
What you will be doing
- Lead the analysis of mortality, morbidity and persistency experience across the life portfolio, identifying material trends and their financial and commercial implications
- Own the end-to-end process for setting, reviewing and maintaining actuarial assumptions, ensuring recommendations are supported by robust analysis and actuarial judgement
- Assess the impact of assumption changes across reserves, capital, profitability and forecasts to support effective financial and business decision-making
- Maintain strong governance around actuarial assumptions, with clear documentation, controls and reporting through relevant governance forums
- Build, develop and enhance complex Prophet models, ensuring assumptions, risks and outputs are robust, clearly justified and appropriately documented
- Use internal and external data and wider market insight to challenge results, solve complex actuarial problems and strengthen the quality of analysis
- Partner with Finance, Reinsurance, Pricing and Underwriting to provide actuarial expertise, challenge and insight on significant business decisions
- Present complex experience and assumption findings to senior stakeholders and governance forums, translating technical analysis into clear implications and recommendations
- Drive improvements across actuarial models, experience reporting, data processes and automation to strengthen efficiency, control and quality
- Provide technical oversight, review and coaching to actuarial colleagues, supporting capability and high standards without formal line management responsibility
What do you need to thrive?
- Qualified or nearly qualified member of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, or an equivalent professional body
- Strong actuarial expertise with the judgement to interpret complex experience, identify material issues and recommend appropriate solutions
- Strong understanding of actuarial experience analysis, assumption setting and the actuarial control cycle
- Ability to work independently on complex actuarial matters and take ownership for the quality and delivery of technically demanding work
- Strong actuarial modelling capability with the ability to build, develop, challenge and document complex models
- Ability to translate complex actuarial information into clear, commercially relevant recommendations for senior stakeholders
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to challenge, influence and build effective relationships across the business
- Experience providing technical guidance, review or coaching to other actuarial professionals
- Experience with IFRS reporting, particularly IFRS 17, would be advantageous
- Experience with Prophet and knowledge of R, SQL or Power BI would be advantageous
- Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
- A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
- Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
- Life Assurance – Four times annual salary
These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
- Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been
- Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self
- Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work
- Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths
- Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be
- Give you the space to try, fail and learn
- Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support
- Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits
- Be there for you when you need us
- Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.
About Us
We’ve been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives – they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We’re successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people – and because we care.
Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.
Ready to find out if we’re the right fit for you? We can’t wait.
At Vitality, we’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Vitality’s approach to sustainability
Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page.
If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.
Skills
.Hard Skills - SQL, .Hard Skills - Automation, .Hard Skills - Reporting, .Hard Skills - Power BI, .Hard Skills - delivery , .Hard Skills - Underwriting, .Hard Skills - Leadership, .Hard Skills - IFRS 17, .Hard Skills - Prophet, .Hard Skills - Programme, .Hard Skills - Sustainability
