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Bulk Annuity Quotations Actuary

Employer
Lloyds Banking Group
Location
London
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
3 Feb 2022

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At Lloyds Banking Group, we have a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper and to become the best bank for our customers. What we do makes a genuine difference to families, businesses and communities. Finance is key to that success by securing and building the financial strength and performance of the Bank.

Insurance and Wealth helps personal and business customers with their long-term protection, retirement, and investment needs. We support around 10 million customers with assets under administration of £155 billion and annuity payments in retirement of over £1 billion every year.


You'll be joining us in within the Bulk Annuity Pricing Services Team. We're responsible for implementing the pricing strategy for Bulk Annuities, working closely with the Insurance Origination business to deliver a large number of quotes, using live market data, demographic and capital assumptions.


As an actuary in this team, your focus will be on pricing processes, efficiently and effectively producing high quality bulk annuity quotes. Your remit will also include driving operational improvements within the team and working with colleagues across Insurance Finance on ad-hoc tasks where pricing expertise is needed.


Our team works out of our London and Edinburgh hubs, therefore ideally you'll be based a commutable distance from one of these areas however, location can be flexible for this role due to new ways of working. We work in a hybrid model, splitting our time between the office and working from home but colleagues have flexibility to choose where they work from.


Would you like to further develop your Actuarial career, at the forefront of Bulk Annuity Pricing?

  • On a typical day, you may be producing cash flow projections used to calculate premiums for bulk annuity quotations, or supporting colleagues with other tasks linked to bulk annuity contracts already in place.

  • Your accountabilities will include:

  • Validating and manipulating large complex data sets

  • Analysing reinsurance quotes to understand cost vs benefit

  • Developing and maintaining an in depth technical knowledge of our models and products

  • Summarising and presenting complex technical information

  • Delivering high quality results to strict deadlines

  • Calling out, managing and mitigating risks in a timely manner

What you'll bring to this role?


It's essential that you're:

  • A nearly qualified or qualified Actuary, or have gained significant actuarial experience within a similar pricing role

  • Commercially minded and have had some previous exposure to pricing and/or quotation activity

  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel

And desirable that you have:

  • Knowledge of Prophet

You'll also have well-honed analytical skills, great attention to detail and be able to communicate credibly and clearly to colleagues and partners at all levels.

It's a really exciting time to join LBG. Together we'll continue our market leading, ground breaking transformation and you'll help us realise the Group's vision to become the Best Bank for Customers. Here, you'll grow as a person and develop your career.

What you'll get in return?


In addition to a competitive base salary, the position also offers:

  • Discretionary Performance Share Award

  • Generous pension contribution

  • A flex benefits cash pot you can adjust to suit your lifestyle (4% on top of your basic salary)

  • Private health cover

  • Share schemes

  • 24 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising to 28 days after 5+ years service)

In return for your expertise, you'll enjoy our total dedication to your ongoing personal and professional development.

So if you have the skills we're looking for, we'd love to hear from you..... We'll help you perform at your best today, so you can fulfil all your potential in the future. We know that success is built from the inside out through our people. Our customers' experience and success starts with yours.

We're an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation. We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Together we make it possible.

Did you know we've won awards?


We've gained industry recognition including Stonewall Top 100 Employer, Top 30 Employer for Working Families, Gold Standard 2014 from the Business Disability Forum and Top 50 Employer for Women.

Company

We’re creating an organisation that attracts, retains and develops the best talent in the industry, and one that openly embraces diversity too. But more than that – we want to be a great place to work. We invest in our people, offering the best training and coaching, and by encouraging them to contribute to our leading corporate and social responsibility practices. We offer flexible working hours and days, under our Work Options scheme. This means that you can have a challenging and rewarding career, and still have an ideal work/life balance.

Flexible working is at the heart of our strategy. We’re re-imagining where, when, and how our people work, with new approaches designed to meet the ever-changing needs of customers and colleagues. These include increasing our use of remote-working tools and technology, as well as placing less reliance on a 9-to-5 mindset. For many of our office-based colleagues, we work in hybrid ways which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of their time at one of our office sites.

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