Actuarial Assistant Manager - Life

Forvis Mazars; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Forvis Mazars is seeking a part-qualified actuarial professional in Edinburgh, balancing external audit and consultancy in life insurance. Candidates should have relevant experience in life and health insurance, model building, and team leadership, with opportunities for significant career growth and involvement in global projects.

Qualifications

• Experience from a life insurance company or consulting firm required.
• Interest in managing people and leading small teams.
• Willingness to travel is essential.

Responsibilities

• Split time between external audit and actuarial consultancy work.
• Support Actuarial Partners in various projects.
• Develop methodologies for Solvency II valuation and reporting.

Skills

Life and health insurance experience

Team management

Ability to develop self and others

Education

Part qualified - completed most or all of the CT series

Tools

Excel

Actuarial software (Prophet, Mo.Net)

Job description

Forvis Mazars cares about your career progression, offering individually designed career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development. Forvis Mazars faces a once-in-a-generation growth opportunity within the UK and is looking for candidates to make their mark in leading and adding value to a growing global business.

About the team

Our Actuarial team uses expertise in financial, risk, and capital modelling to help clients manage the complexities that are inherent in business. We use a blend of technical and commercial expertise to provide insight, assurance and enable effective decision-making by business leaders. You will serve regional, national, and international companies of all sizes and structures combining your skills with the right actuarial and non-actuarial team members for every engagement.

About the role

Working in the life insurance area, this role will be split between external audit during the financial reporting season and a wide range of actuarial consultancy work for the balance of the year. Supporting the Actuarial Partners, this is an exciting opportunity to be involved in a wide variety of projects and roles, and to add value to a growing UK business.

In particular, we are looking for someone with life and health insurance experience and to help and support with the development of robust and accurate methodologies for aspects of Solvency II valuation and reporting. This experience could have been gained either from working in a life insurance company or with a consulting firm.

You will be given early responsibility and will be involved in high-profile global projects. Your time would usually be split between working in the office, attending client meetings and relationship development.

What are we looking for?

• Part qualified - completed most of, or all of the CT series up to nearly qualified.
• Ideally familiar with building models in excel of other actuarial software such as Prophet or Mo.Net
• Interest in managing people and preferably experience working in and leading small teams.
• Willingness to travel.
• Ability to develop self and others.
• Promotes the firm's values and beliefs, demonstrating integrity and maintaining an ethical stance, using flexibility and tact to express views as necessary.

About Forvis Mazars

Forvis Mazars is a leading professional services network. The network operates under a single brand worldwide, with just two members: Forvis Mazars LLP in the United States and Forvis Mazars Group SC, an internationally integrated partnership operating in over 100 countries and territories.

Both member firms share a commitment to providing an unmatched client experience, delivering audit & assurance, tax and advisory services around the world. Together, our strategic vision strives to move our clients, people, industry and communities forward. Through our reach and areas of expertise, we help organisations respond to emerging sustainability issues in the global marketplace including human rights, climate change, environmental impacts and culture.

We are one diverse, multicultural, multi-generational team with a huge sense of connection and belonging. This is a place where you can take ownership of your career, get involved, believe in yourself and put your ideas into action.

At Forvis Mazars, we empower our people and celebrate individuality. We thrive on teamwork and are agile. We have bold foresight and give people the freedom to make a personal contribution to our shared purpose. We support one another to deliver quality, create change and have a deeper understanding, to help make an impact so that everyone can reach their full potential.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Forvis Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond is fully supported to be their unique self. To read more about our approach click here

Our aim is to make the recruitment process as accessible and inclusive as possible - please contact us to discuss any changes you may require so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.

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