Senior Manager - Life Actuarial Capital Modelling & Risk

Job details

Location: Bristol, Edinburgh, London, Manchester

Capability: Consulting

Experience Level: Senior Manager

Type: Full Time or Part Time

Service Line: FS Consulting

Contract type: Permanent

Job Description

Senior Manager – Life Actuarial

KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax & Pensions, Consulting, Deal Advisory and Technology services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity and insight to our clients’ most critical challenges.

With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our vision is simple: to be the clear choice for our clients, for our people and for the communities we work in.

The Role

Responsibilities:

• Leading client engagement teams and in some instances working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Provide a high quality advisory service to our clients
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with both new and existing clients as well as within KPMG.
• Winning new business through marketing and sales activities
• Creation and contribution to high quality thought leadership through written publications, training events, client seminars and conferences
• Contributing to the development of new products and services
• Sharing knowledge and experience and contributing to the development of the team
• Marketing and raising the profile of KPMG
• A willingness to undertake travel will be required on occasion
  
  
  

Current Projects:

• Multiple IFRS 17 impact assessments which have also led to IFRS17 implementation projects.
• Provision of actuarial expertise on finance transformation projects.
• Providing assistance to Companies undertaking mergers and acquisitions
• Helping Companies with capital modelling strategy including managing model change
• Technical assistance with modelling methodology and calibration and validation of components of capital models
• Developing the processes that use actuarial model outputs to understand and control the business. This includes setting risk appetite and limits, decision making and strategy and developing management actions for use in stressed conditions.
• Provision of actuarial expertise to support our Audit colleagues
  
  
  

The Person

Qualifications and Skills:

The successful candidate is expected to have experience of working in a life Actuarial function or a life consultancy. They must be a qualified actuary.

Experience and Knowledge:

• The capability to manage concurrent engagements and play a part in shaping and implementing KPMG's tailored solutions
• Review and design of risk management framework components and governance arrangements covering prudential and liquidity risks
• The ability to develop productive relationships that bring in business
• Strong technical and communication skills (both written and oral) and the ability to deal with clients and senior personnel from day one
• Flexibility and an enjoyment of working on challenging projects, and interacting with teams from other business groups
• Strong project and people management skills, and an ability to structure task allocations around critical goals
• Strong coaching skills to develop the capabilities of junior team members
• Experience gained within either a consultancy or company environment are both equally advantageous
• Curiosity and flexibility to new approaches
• Market exposure
  
  
  

Why Consulting at KPMG?

Technology is a critical focus for us. It underpins everything we do. We're investing in technology like never before – not least because the pace of technological change is disrupting organisations in new and challenging ways. Through advanced data analytics and emerging tech-enabled solutions like AI and machine learning, we're helping clients across diverse sectors to navigate that change. We enable them to avoid any unnecessary risks and to uncover new, transformative opportunities that could give them a competitive edge. A career here means stretching your skills and honing your expertise by solving complex problems as part of a collaborative, results-driven and supportive team. Whether we're helping our clients to reduce their costs, make better decisions, improve efficiencies or deploy the latest technologies, we bring together broad specialisms and talents to deliver robust, connected solutions.