EY Hiring For Actuarial – Life Manager – FS Business Consulting at South Dublin, County Dublin Full Time

Actuarial – Life Manager – FS Business Consulting

EY’s Global Actuarial Services practice, with over 2,300 actuarial professionals covering over 30 countries, ranks in the Top 3 actuarial services practices in the world.

In EMEIA we have over 700 actuarial professionals. In a unique structure, by partnering with other practices across EY and being part of one team, we aim to provide truly integrated services across all disciplines in Insurance, Risk and Financial Services.

Through our knowledge of the local (re) insurance market, global (re)insurance industry, and our understanding of business needs of our clients, we have built a strong reputation as a leading actuarial and insurance advisor, offering broad and diverse opportunities to our employees.

The opportunity

In Dublin our actuarial team offers a wide range of life and non-life business consulting and audit services. We work closely with the actuarial teams in both the UK and across Europe, and often on multi-service line engagements with our Risk, Assurance and Business Consulting colleagues.

We offer a wide range of services, providing a mix of business consulting and assurance assistance to clients on:

Solvency II

IFRS 17

Financial reporting

Reinsurance & capital management

Enterprise Risk Management

Financial and actuarial transformations

Insurance portfolio acquisitions

Due diligence

New company authorisations

Regulatory reporting

We are currently undergoing a period of expansion and looking to recruit a number of talented, experienced and ambitious actuaries to cope with growing demand for actuarial services.

In particular, we are looking for a life actuarial manager to join our team.

Your key responsibilities

Actuarial Managers are involved in the successful delivery and management of actuarial and multidisciplinary projects, including both the relationship with clients and the performance of the internal EY team.

The successful candidate will be expected to drive the production of client deliverables, with an emphasis on quality and teaming. They will have a responsibility for assisting with the management and development of more junior colleagues.

They will look to develop several areas of technical excellence, participating in the research and development required to support the growth of these fields of expertise. They will be expected to adopt an account management mind-set, identifying client specific needs. They will be able to positively promote the EY strategy, services and values.

They must be confident and credible in taking the lead in both client interactions and with more junior colleagues.

They will work across a broad range of projects both as part of the assurance and business consulting practices. They will look to develop their EY network through working on multi-disciplinary projects across different service lines.

Skills and attributes for success

Technical

Qualified Actuary, with a minimum of 3 years PQE and over 6 years of total experience in life insurance/reinsurance or life consultancy, preferably with IFRS 17 or related experience

Excellent technical and analytical skills

IT programming (e.g. in the form of asset/liability model development) or actuarial software experience (e.g. MoSes, Prophet)

Awareness of the challenges facing the life insurance industry

To qualify for the role you must have

Previous experience in managing more junior staff and delivering projects

Demonstrated ability in problem solving and managing multiple tasks

Excellent communication skills, both in written and oral format

Focus on deadlines, discipline and process, yet flexible and pragmatic

Professional attitude and demeanour

Confident dealing with clients

Ideally, you’ll also have

Previous experience in at least two of the following areas:
IFRS 17

Solvency II

Financial reporting

Capital and Risk Management

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around

Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career

The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you.

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and business consulting services, we’re using the finance products, expertise and systems we’ve developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. And with a commitment to hiring and developing the most passionate people, we’ll make our ambition to be the best employer in 2023 a reality.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Make your mark

Apply now.