VP and Actuary, ALM

Kuvare Holdings; Des Plaines (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Kuvare seeks a VP and Actuary, ALM to lead enterprise asset-liability management, governance, and strategic initiatives across the organization and its affiliates. This role advises senior leadership on balance-sheet risks and coordinates with actuarial, finance, risk, and investment teams to drive risk-adjusted performance.

The candidate will shape ALM strategy, oversee models like AXIS, and develop scalable analytics and reporting to inform executive decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, or related fields.
• FSA, MAAA, with equivalent experience preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive life insurance experience with ALM leadership and related actuarial disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Lead ALM discussions with executive management and governance committees, presenting risk assessments and recommendations.
• Monitor regulatory, accounting, rating agency, and market developments affecting ALM and translate into strategic priorities.
• Collaborate with Investments to align asset deployment with liability characteristics and enterprise planning needs.
• Develop optimization capabilities and evaluate strategies to improve hedging effectiveness and capital utilization.
• Set governance for asset modeling in AXIS to support actuarial projections and decision-making.

Skills

ALM expertise

Liquidity risk

Hedging

Model governance

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science/Finance

FSA/MAAA or equivalent

Tools

AXIS

Job description

About Kuvare

Kuvare is on a mission to serve hardworking consumers overwhelmed by the complexities of retirement and is built from the ground up to do so. Our unified financial hub protects the retirement of everyday Americans and the distributors, carriers and investors that serve them. We create life insurance and annuity products that protect consumers’ retirements, and are simplified for distributor partners and financial professionals to sell and service.

About Kuvare

Kuvare is on a mission to serve hardworking consumers overwhelmed by the complexities of retirement and is built from the ground up to do so. Our unified financial hub protects the retirement of everyday Americans and the distributors, carriers and investors that serve them. We create life insurance and annuity products that protect consumers’ retirements, and are simplified for distributor partners and financial professionals to sell and service.

Kuvare Family Of Companies

Retail Annuity and Life Insurance Solutions:

• United Life Insurance Company
• Guaranty Income Life Insurance Company
• Lincoln Benefit Life

Institutional Insurance

• Kuvare Life Re

Bespoke Insurance Solutions

• Ignite Partners

About The Role

The VP and Actuary, ALM leads the enterprise asset-liability management function, setting strategy, governance, and priorities to optimize the ALM position, liquidity profile, and risk-adjusted performance of the company and its affiliates. The role advises senior management on balance-sheet risks, strategic trade-offs, and recommended actions. Serves as the senior ALM advisor and strategic partner to Actuarial, Finance, Investments (KSI), Risk, Legal, Operations, Tax, and key external parties, aligning stakeholders on balance-sheet strategy, risk priorities, and execution.

What You'll Do

• Leads ALM discussions with executive management and relevant governance committees, presenting risk assessments, strategic alternatives, recommendations, and decisions requiring escalation or approval.
• Monitors regulatory, accounting, rating agency, and market developments affecting ALM and translates emerging requirements and trends into timely strategic recommendations and implementation priorities.
• Leads partnership with the Investment team to develop investment and reinvestment strategies that align asset deployment with liability characteristics, risk appetite, capital objectives, and enterprise planning needs, including the business plan, embedded value, cash flow testing, and stress testing.
• Directs the development of optimization capabilities and evaluates alternative strategies, recommending actions that improve hedging effectiveness, ALM efficiency, capital utilization, and risk-adjusted performance.
• Sets the strategic direction and governance for asset modeling in AXIS, ensuring quarterly model builds support actuarial projections, enterprise decision-making, and the needs of the company and its affiliates.
• Sponsors the development and continuous improvement of scalable analytics, tools, and reporting that deepen insight into ALM performance and support timely executive decisions.
• Establishes and maintains the ALM governance framework, including methodology and change memoranda, management and board-level materials, decision records, and recommendations on emerging balance-sheet issues.
• Owns governance and controls for ALM systems and models, including AXIS, ensuring appropriate change management, data quality, documentation, validation, and operational resilience.
• Oversees investment compliance reporting to third parties, including reinsurers, and ensures reporting is accurate, timely, and supported by effective controls and escalation protocols.
• Measure, monitor, and report on ALM and hedge positions and results to ensure processes remain robust, effective, and compliant with approved guidelines, limits, and policies; develop and oversee remediation plans as needed.
• Leads the review and challenge of investment data for monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting. Ensures data accuracy, identifies underlying drivers and emerging trends, challenges assumptions, and communicates implications and recommended actions to senior management.
• Oversees investment-related assumptions and cash flow reliance statements provided to the Appointed Actuary, ensuring they are supportable, well documented, and aligned with enterprise ALM strategy.
• Provides leadership and direction to the ALM team by setting clear priorities, defining accountabilities, and aligning resources with enterprise objectives. Builds organizational capability through coaching, feedback, performance management, succession planning, and targeted development of actuarial and analytical talent. Establishes effective delegation and decision rights while remaining accountable for the quality, timeliness, and impact of the team’s work.

Qualifications

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, or related fields
• FSA, MAAA, with equivalent experience preferred
• 10+ years of progressive life insurance experience, including significant leadership responsibility in ALM and related actuarial disciplines such as product management, valuation, modeling, financial reporting, and systems. Experience advising senior management and translating complex balance-sheet risks into strategic recommendations is strongly preferred.

Skills/Competencies

• Deep understanding and current knowledge of ALM techniques, liquidity risk, hedging, capital management strategies, model governance, and enterprise balance-sheet decision-making.
• Strategic and critical thinker with sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to make well-reasoned decisions amid complexity and uncertainty.
• Exceptional executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex actuarial, investment, and risk topics into clear insights, recommendations, and decisions for senior management and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence senior stakeholders, resolve competing priorities, and build alignment around enterprise decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team, including setting expectations, managing performance, providing actionable feedback, and building succession depth.
• Self-starter and strong entrepreneurial spirit
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results under pressure in a tight timeframe

Physical Demands

• Normal office working environment
• Occasional evening and weekend hours to meet deadlines
• Occasional travel is required
• Ability to sit for extended periods of time
• Ability to type / perform data entry
• Ability to read from a computer screen and paper reports
• Express ideas and otherwise communicate with the spoken word