Manager - Actuarial Life Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
Job details
Location: Bristol, Edinburgh, London, Manchester
Capability: Consulting
Experience Level: Manager
Type: Full Time
Service Line: Actuarial and Ins Risk
Contract type: Permanent
Job description
Responsibilities:
- Assisting in the delivery of client engagements, working as part of a project team on client sites
- Providing technical input to a number of projects
- Supporting senior management efforts to cultivate and maintain target client relationships, including assisting with proposals and the development of sales materials
- Drafting reports and presentations.
- Working with other KPMG teams and providing technical input
- The successful candidate will be required to manage small to medium sized teams.
- As well as project delivery responsibilities, the role involves supporting other aspects of the team's work including sales and marketing, research and development of new services, and knowledge management.
Current projects
- Multiple IFRS 17 impact assessments which have also led to IFRS17 implementation projects.
- Provision of actuarial expertise on finance transformation projects.
- Providing assistance to Companies undertaking mergers and acquisitions
- Helping Companies with their capital models
- Provision of actuarial expertise to support our Audit colleagues
The Person
Qualifications and Skills:
Qualified Actuary. Must have experience of working in a Life Actuarial function or life consultancy
Experience and Background:
The capability to manage concurrent engagements and play a part in shaping and implementing KPMG's tailored solutions
- Strong technical and communication skills (both written and oral) and the ability to deal with clients and senior personnel from day one
- Flexibility and an enjoyment of working on challenging projects, and interacting with teams from other business groups
- Strong project and people management skills, and an ability to structure task allocations around critical goals
- Strong coaching skills to develop the capabilities of junior team members
- Experience gained within either a consultancy or company environment are both equally advantageous
- Curiosity and flexibility to new approaches
- Market exposure
Why Consulting at KPMG?
Technology is a critical focus for us. It underpins everything we do. We're investing in technology like never before – not least because the pace of technological change is disrupting organisations in new and challenging ways. Through advanced data analytics and emerging tech-enabled solutions like AI and machine learning, we're helping clients across diverse sectors to navigate that change. We enable them to avoid any unnecessary risks and to uncover new, transformative opportunities that could give them a competitive edge. A career here means stretching your skills and honing your expertise by solving complex problems as part of a collaborative, results-driven and supportive team. Whether we're helping our clients to reduce their costs, make better decisions, improve efficiencies or deploy the latest technologies, we bring together broad specialisms and talents to deliver robust, connected solutions.
