Director/AVP & Financial Actuary – Life Insurance recruitment

A fantastic opportunity for a Qualified Actuary to join a well established and successful International Insurance company has become available. Based in the regional headquarters in HK this is a senior role within the Financial Reporting team.

Role Summary

• Provide peer reviews on the actuarial processes –valuation and experience studies for the assigned business units and provide recommendation on key risk issues and improvement actions. This covers the peer view on quarterly method and assumption changes, software audit, and internal peer review conducted on a 3 –year cycle, etc.

• Provide insights on current results for the assigned business units to understand and improve performance by conducting the reviews of the actuarial reports

• Provide support to start up operations in setting up the infrastructure for the on-going actuarial management of the operations

• Provide ad hoc actuarial support to business units in the region

• Conduct peer reviews on the financial models applied in the business cases initiated by the business units

• Implement any region-wide actuarial project and ensure the consistency across different business units

• Provide advice as required and transfer knowledge on different actuarial applications to the local teams

• Produce Asia reports and documentations for the executives by consolidating the submissions from the business units along with the review comments

• Provide assessment for Regional Office on level of capabilities for local team to assume more accountabilities or autonomy

Specialized Knowledge/Skills

• Strong technical actuarial skills

• Sound knowledge in actuarial valuation

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Education and Experience

• Fellow of a recognized actuarial institute

• At least 10 years of actuarial experience in life insurance industry

• Previous experience of valuation and financial reporting

For more information on this role or to make an application please contact James Lecoutre at DW Simpson by emailing james.lecoutre@dwsimpson.com or please call +852 3975 3285.