Actuarial Systems Manager recruitment

Job ID: 20114

Position Description:
SunGard provides solutions for the insurance industry in each of the following major business lines: life and health, annuities and pensions, property and casualty, reinsurance and asset management. SunGard's software and services support functions from the front-office through the back-office, from customer service, policy administration and actuarial calculations to financial and investment accounting and reporting.
We are looking for actuarial systems managers with experience in actuarial work, model development and asset-liability modelling to join our team working on the Prophet systems.

The main role will be to direct and support the enhancement of the iWorks Prophet suite of applications, covering Prophet Professional (including DCS and DFA Interface), Glean and Prophet Enterprise.

It is expected that the successful candidate will also have involvement in other areas of the Prophet business - the extent of involvement will depend on the communication skills, proficiency with Prophet, business knowledge and personal desire of the candidate to participate in these client-facing activities

Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team and managing others would be an advantage although the role will not necessarily be managing others and has no budgetary responsibility. You will be working to strict project deadlines and potentially working on several projects in parallel.

70% Managing and producing quality software that meets our clients' needs:
- Actuarial architectural role in moulding the Prophet system
- Definition and validation of requirements
- Bringing together staff of different disciplines and driving the group to plan, agree and execute a comprehensive delivery strategy
- Setting quality compliance objectives and ensuring those targets are achieved

10% Evaluating the latest technologies (with partners) to ensure Prophet remains at the cutting edge of actuarial modelling systems

10% Developing and maintaining awareness of the business context

10% Providing actuarial systems consultancy support and (specialist) helpdesk support to customers

Position Requirements:
Knowledge/Experience:

Essential Experience Required;
• Proven modelling experience in an "open" actuarial platform, with architectural understanding
• Substantial actuarial experience
• Asset liability modelling and management
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Solvency II / IFRS / Principles Based Accounting

Desirable Experience Required;
• Project Management experience
• Knowledge of developments in UK, Continental European and global markets
• Experience of systems integration

Skills:

Essential Skills Required;
• MS Office and SQL
• Project / Workflow tracking tools, e.g. TFS
• Understanding of programming developments, e.g. parallelisation, cloud
• Fluent in spoken/written English

Desirable Skills Required;
• Application design and development tools, e.g. Blend, Visual Studio
• Quality Assurance tools, e.g. TestComplete
• Hardware and operating system environments, e.g. virtualisation
• Knowledge of additional languages is desirable.

Qualifications:

• AIA/FIA or equivalent
• Existing and continued right to work in the UK

Competencies:

• Good communication and team-working skills
• Experience managing and prioritising work
• Experience coaching or managing people