Associate - Business Finance

Great Eastern; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 56,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Great Eastern Life Malaysia is seeking an Associate, Business Finance to join the CFOs Office in Kuala Lumpur. You will assist in ALM, liquidity, capital management and cost optimization activities while aligning with regulatory requirements and strategic financial objectives.

You will work with actuarial, investment and finance teams to analyse capital efficiency, prepare SMT/ALCO reports, monitor expenses and support opportunities for value creation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s level qualification in Statistics, Mathematics or Actuarial Studies.
• Actuarial exams passed (IFoA/IOA/SOA).
• 1–2 years of related working experience.
• Strong communication skills – written and verbal.
• Tableau knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Assist in formulating Asset Liability Matching (ALM) optimisations.
• Coordinate annual SAA/TAA optimization with relevant teams.
• Support regulatory capital management optimisation via ALM initiatives.
• Analyse capital efficiency and monitor it by line of business.
• Prepare analyses for SMT and ALCO meetings.
• Help manage company expenses and identify potential savings.
• Ensure timely completion of tasks assigned.
• Monitor industry trends in regulatory compliance and risk.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Data analysis

Communication skills

Tableau

Education

Tertiary in Statistics / Maths / Actuarial Studies

Actuarial exams (IFoA / IOA / SOA)

Tools

Tableau

Job description

Position: Associate, Business Finance – CFOs Office

Discover the GREAT in your career.

As a LIFE company, our customers are at the heart of all that we do. Being one of Asia’s leading insurer for over a century, we have built a long-lasting legacy of trust with our customers over many generations. At the foundation of this trust is Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement – from the way we treat every customer relationship with honesty and transparency, to our proactive approach of delivering the best possible solutions in both life and general insurance.

Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement is what guides us. It is what makes us do the right thing, take the lead, and choose ‘we’ over ‘me’. Our mission is to make life great for our customers because we understand what matters most to them, and we know how to help them protect it.

If you are looking to grow in an exciting career filled with opportunities and potential, we are seeking a professional to join our team as Associate, Business Finance.

The Role:

• Assist in formulating the Asset Liability Matching (ALM) Optimisation in the perspectives of liquidity, earnings volatility, reinsurance, capital and free surplus management.
• Coordinate the annual exercise on the optimization of Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation (SAA/TAA) with the support from Actuarial, Investment and Finance Department.
• Assist in formulating the regulatory capital management optimization via the ALM Identify and initiate and support the inforce initiatives and business cases for business opportunities optimization.
• Analyse and monitor the capital efficiency through Return on Regulatory Capital measure by line of business.
• Prepare the relevant analysis and monitoring, where required in SMT and ALCO.
• Assist in managing Company's expenses and identifying potential savings for the Company.
• Ensure timely completion of tasks assigned.
• Maintain awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company
• Highlight any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practice.
• Other responsibilities entailed

The Person:

• Possessed a recognized Tertiary in Statistics / Maths / Actuarial Studies Professional
• Passed some actuarial exams in Faculty of Actuaries, Scotland / Institute of Actuaries, England / Institute of Actuaries, Australia / Society of Actuaries, US.
• 1 - 2 years related working experience.
• Good communication skills - written and verbal
• Very strong analytical reasoning and data orientation.
• Proactive, Self-motivated, result-oriented and solutions focus.
• A good team player who is keen to learn and able to work independently.
• Good technical and analytical skills.
• Fresh graduate can be considered but with good results.
• Knowledge in Tableau is a plus.
• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork
• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes

Great Eastern Malaysia is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity, and all qualified applicants shall receive a fair and equal consideration for employment.

Entity: Great Eastern Life Malaysia

Employment Type: Permanent

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.