Senior Manager

The Experience Studies team at Canada Life Reinsurance requires a Senior Manager to oversee the production of experience studies.

The successful candidate will be responsible for managing, motivating and developing a small team of actuaries and trainee actuaries.

This role involves producing regular mortality, lapse, and claim experience studies and implementing new reinsurance transactions into the experience study model.

The ideal candidate will have an actuarial qualification with 4+ years post-qualification relevant technical experience.

They will also have good knowledge and experience of experience studies, assumption setting, actuarial reporting and/or pricing.

A strong work ethic and a willingness to work to a flexible schedule are also essential for this role.

Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to effectively communicate complex concepts by adapting to different audiences are also required.

The successful candidate will be responsible for planning and overseeing the production of the CL Re experience studies to update the business on how experience is materialising relative to assumptions.

They will provide the relevant data, analysis and insight to support the actuarial assumption reviews.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage, motivate, and develop a small team of actuaries and trainee actuaries.
• Produce regular mortality, lapse, and claim experience studies.
• Implement new reinsurance transactions into the experience study model.
• Draft accurate, clear, and concise documentation and effectively communicate key insights and results to senior management.
• Support the design, development, and implementation of improvements to the experience study methodology, models, and processes (including governance and controls) to optimise existing studies, accelerate production timelines and enhance the controls environment.

Requirements:

• An actuarial qualification with 4+ years post-qualification relevant technical experience.
• Good knowledge and experience of experience studies, assumption setting, actuarial reporting and/or pricing.
• People management experience with the ability to manage a team to successful outcomes.
• An ability to plan work, manage time effectively and ensure timely completion of all deliverables.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams simultaneously to demanding schedules.
• A strong work ethic and a willingness to work to a flexible schedule.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, and in particular an ability to effectively communicate complex concepts by adapting to the different audiences.
• The capacity to solve problems and make decisions effectively and efficiently.
• Well-developed professional judgement and be at ease balancing urgency and importance.
• A demonstrated capacity to build relationships, gain trust and command respect at all levels.
• An appetite to work effectively in partnership with senior management across the Dublin office, the Division, and the Group.
• Extensive experience with MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint.
• Experience working with data management (e.g., SQL) and data visualisation (e.g., PowerBI) software.

Canada Life Reinsurance is a leading provider of client-focused reinsurance solutions in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

It offers a range of innovative risk and capital management solutions covering mortality, longevity, health, lapse, investment, non-life, and P&C risk for insurers, reinsurers, and pension funds.

Canada Life Reinsurance has offices in Dublin, Toronto, Philadelphia, Bermuda, Barbados, and Regina.

The Dublin office is the base for CL Re's European and Asian operations as well as the Irish reinsurance entity, Canada Life Re Ireland dac.

It comprises approximately 170 reinsurance professionals, including 120 actuaries and trainee actuaries.

It is a proactive, inspiring, and friendly environment where talent and hard work are recognised and rewarded.