At AIA we’re making a promise to help people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives. That promise starts by supporting each and every member of our AIA family to enjoy healthier lives and fulfilling careers.

Our environment, culture and benefits will help you live healthier and better, while enjoying life at work and at home. Recharge days, flexible working, AIA Vitality membership and a fitness device voucher are just the beginning.
We celebrate and rely on the diversity of our people to help us find new ways to create healthy change and to improve as an organisation.
We perform as a team, but feel like a family, united by a common purpose: to make a difference in people’s lives.

AIA is different. Are you?

The opportunity:

The purpose of this role is to provide actuarial support to the business, manage actuarial projects and support actuaries and senior actuaries in meeting internal and external stakeholder requirements. By performing these tasks the Senior Actuarial Analyst contributes to the profitability and effectiveness of the business in the attainment of its objectives.

About the role:

• Effectively lead and provide support to projects (including management of the scope, timelines, deliverables, project team and stakeholders) and to business as usual tasks across solvency, capital management and reinsurance as well as other aspects of actuarial work including:

• experience investigations;

• valuations;

• financial and regulatory reporting;

• investments;

• finance;

• risk management;

• system changes and conversions; and

• other broad business initiatives (as required)

• Effectively manage and mentor actuarial analysts

• Develop and use software skills including AIA’s systems, SQL, MS Office package, Prophet, Glean, DCS and R

• Extract, reconcile, manipulate and analyse data and develop draft insights and results for actuaries and senior actuaries

• Review work completed by actuarial analysts and other senior actuarial analysts and recommend draft insights and results to actuaries and senior actuaries

• Maintain existing tools, models, systems, processes, methodologies and documentation and proactively contribute to their improvement and development

• Communicate and present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Start engaging with teams across AIA and contributing to the broader business

• Start building effective relationships across Financial Services, Product and other teams

• Proactively take ownership of emerging issues and challenges

• Understand and adhere to AIA’s risk management framework and the relevant policies

• Identify and raise awareness of risk management issues

• Investigate incidents; and

• Test controls, conduct validations of simple models and assist in validations of more complex models

Regularly sit actuarial exams while maintaining an “approved student” status in accordance with the Actuarial Study conditions

About you:

• Small project and/or team management experience

• Financial services industry experience (ideally life or health insurance, but other financial services experience will be also considered)

• Understanding of NZ life insurance legislative and statutory requirements

• Understanding of AIA’s commercial environment (including products, markets and competitors)

• At least two years experience in actuarial roles

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification with quantitative background (e.g. mathematics, statistics or engineering)

• Passed Part 1 and Part 2 actuarial exams, or their equivalent

• Comply with continuing professional development requirements and professional standards of the relevant actuarial body

Why choose AIA:

At AIA, we’ve made a promise to help people live healthier, longer, better lives. And it starts with our own people.

• We invest in training and development to build on your current skills

• Career development through internal mobility opportunities

• Work for a business helping make positive health and wellbeing changes to the lives of New Zealanders

• Access additional leave days to recharge and refresh yourself

• Enjoy wonderful Health and Wellbeing initiatives that support you

• Work with supportive and inclusive managers

• Flexible working arrangements

What’s next?

If you’re passionate about making a difference – then click the ‘Apply Now’ Button!

Applications close on 7 May 2021

Recruitment Agencies: Our Talent team does not require any recruitment agency support.

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