Overview
In this role you will lead and explain ALM-related questions for Institutional Retirement Finance, turning complex changes into clear insights. You will own weekly ALM reporting and collaborate across actuarial, investment, risk and finance teams to strengthen governance and automation. You’ll assess ALM impacts of trades and new assets, while communicating findings to non-specialists and driving reporting improvements aligned with the company’s retirement and risk management objectives. This is an opportunity to shape asset/liability management in a large UK insurer with a strong pension and retirement focus.
Pay / Benefits
- annual bonus and share schemes
- generous pension contribution
- life assurance
- healthcare plan
- 25 days holiday (26 after 2 years)
- electric car scheme
Responsibilities
- Lead responses to daily and ad hoc ALM requests and own weekly ALM MI
- Review changes in interest rate and inflation exposures and explain P&L movements
- Assess ALM impact of proposed trades, new assets, PT schemes and reinsurance activity
- Produce concise analyses of change and escalate unusual results
- Turn technical outputs into clear stakeholder communication and decision insight
- Strengthen reporting processes, controls, governance and documentation
- Develop automation and technology-enabled reporting solutions
- Support changes to systems, methods and the connection between weekly and month-end reporting
Key requirements
- Nearly or Newly Qualified Actuary
- Strong understanding of investments, ALM, asset models, hedging or market risk
- Experience producing, reviewing or analysing actuarial or financial reporting
- Ability to explain movements and technical conclusions clearly to non-specialists
- Strong Excel and data analysis skills
- Evidence of ownership and delivery under regular deadlines
- Confidence working across actuarial, investment, risk and finance teams
- Interest in automation, with Python, R or similar experience welcomed
- clear communication
- ability to explain complex concepts to non-specialists
- stakeholder engagement
- ALM
- investments
- asset models
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