Senior Actuary - Actuarial Enterprise Projects

Job Title

Senior Actuary - Actuarial Enterprise Projects

Job Description

Providing for loved ones, planning rewarding retirements, saving enough for whatever lies ahead – our policyholders count on us to be there when it matters most. It’s a big ask, but it’s one that we have the power to deliver when we work together. We collaborate and innovate – pushing one another to transform not just Pacific Life, but the entire industry for the better. Why? Because it’s the right thing to do. Pacific Life is more than a job, it’s a career with purpose. It’s a career where you have the support, balance, and resources to make a positive impact on the future – including your own.

We’re actively seeking a talented Senior Actuary to join our Enterprise Project Team in our Toronto, ON, Newport Beach, CA, or Omaha, NE, or our brand-new CHARLOTTE, NC offices.

This role requires an in-office presence on a dynamic, 4-days per week schedule.

As a Senior Actuary you’ll play a key role in Pacific Life’s growth and long-term success by primarily executing critical enterprise-wide projects. This role will be within Enterprise Actuarial but will have the opportunity to support a variety of actuarial projects that may involve collaborating with teams across the enterprise. 

How You’ll Help Move Us Forward

• Lead and manage complex actuarial projects, ensuring timely and accurate completion.
• Provide support across enterprise actuarial transformation efforts leading to efficiencies. 
• Drive consistent enterprise-level implementation of new actuarial reporting requirements and methodologies under external or internal reporting bases. 
• Support implementing model development projects, conversions and large-scale changes. 
• Ensure appropriate stakeholder management through presentations to senior management, summarizing findings and providing actionable recommendations.
• Communicate complex actuarial concepts and results to non-actuarial stakeholders in an understandable manner.
• Implement required new regulatory changes involving actuarial responsibilities. 
• Support the execution of large reinsurance transactions. 
• Provide resource backfill support across Enterprise Actuarial. 
• Train and mentor junior actuarial staff, fostering their professional development and ensuring high-quality work.
  
  

The Experience You Bring

• A working knowledge of various reporting frameworks including regulatory and management reporting; economic value / economic capital, risk-neutral and real-world liabilities, best estimate, and padded assumption setting, etc. 
• Experience in understanding and optimizing various work processes. 
• Proven expertise in strategic planning and time management, ensuring timely delivery of projects and meeting deadlines consistently.
• Knowledge of model development platforms and data processes.
• Familiarity with synthesizing messaging via visual software including PowerPoint, Tableau/PowerBI, etc.
  
  

Additional qualifications for specific job levels as noted below: 

• Senior Actuary 6 years actuarial experience, 4-year degree or equivalent experience, and FSA designation.
  
  

What Makes You Stand Out

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with high degrees of ambiguity arising from a period of significant change.
• Strong communication (both written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, demonstrating ability to build effective relationships and collaborate. 
• Understanding of change management and its importance in delivering successful transformation.
• Highly organized and delivery focused.
• Self-starter, solution-based thinker.
  
  

You Can Be Who You Are.

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Working For Pacific Life Re

Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.

Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

Benefits

Leave

• 23 days of annual leave (Regular employees) with option to buy or sell more days
• Fertility leave
• Generous parental leave
  
  

Healthcare

• Group Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment coverage for all permanent employees
• Dental & Optical benefits
  
  

Savings & Retirement

• RRSP: company-matched contributions
  
  

Wellness

• Employee and Family Assistance Program
• Subsidized gym membership
• Time off for volunteering
• Charitable matching of employee donations
  
  

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.

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