Senior Manager - Actuary
- 23 Jul 2021
- Sydney
- Contract
- Initial 12 Month Contract Engagement
- Leadership Position
- Excellent Daily Rates on offer
Our Client, an Insurance provider, is seeking to appoint a Director - Actuary to join the business on an initial 12 month contract engagement with extension options available.
Key responsibilities include:
Key responsibilities include:
- Delegated authority and responsibility to resolve issues and risks across wide-ranging activities of substantial depth involving significant detail.
- Provide the leadership, control, planning, resource management, performance management and decision making for the team membership and assigned Contractors working within the positions assigned Work Area.
- Apply a significant understanding of the functions to provide high level of advice to senior management, Executive Leadership Team and the Board.
- Responsible for influencing and developing strategy, policies, priorities and operational practices in support of the organisations objectives to “build a world leading Insurance Scheme”.
- Exercise a significant degree of independence and will use a high-level of decision-making and judgement.
- Coordinate and assume responsibility for highly complex or sensitive projects and work program outcomes across the functions that have strategic or operational significance to the organisation
- Applying actuarial and insurance-based techniques to the projection of Scheme costs.
- Satisfying ad hoc requests for modelling and potential interpretations of the organisations legislation.
- Developing and updating the organisations actuarial valuation model and associated monitoring and management reports.
- Evaluating and analysing policy decisions.
- Providing statistical and actuarial advice to senior management and organisation stakeholders.
- Performing reporting, analysis and data management activities as required.
- Extracting data from Information Systems and working on data linkage, data cleaning and quality analysis.
- Providing insights to Agency’s corporate priorities, highlighting actionable insights based on statistical results.
- Ensure high quality outputs including that employees maintain a high level of specialist, professional and/or technical expertise.
- Have significant decision making autonomy in relation to management of the area including the identification of staffing priorities and financial management.
- Work with a high level of autonomy under broad direction with a concurrent need to resolve issues and deliver quality outcomes.
- Communicate and make balanced decisions using professional judgement, evaluating ambiguous and incomplete information, factoring in risks and being sensitive to the context.
- Undertake complex analysis and interpretation and apply significant judgement in choosing a course of action to manage highly complex and/or sensitive issues.
- Initiate, establish and maintain strong relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, promoting the business objectives and communicating the strategic vision of the agency.
- Represent and negotiate on behalf of the organisation to advance the interests in cross-agency, inter-jurisdictional, international and other forums.
- Must possess relevant academic qualifications including tertiary qualifications in Actuarial Studies or Mathematics/Statistics, an Associate qualification with significant progress towards Fellowship qualifications