AVP, Annuity Analytics & Insights
About The Position
This AVP-level role is a critical leadership position within our annuities business, requiring a candidate with a strong foundation in banking, hedge funds, or asset management. We are looking for a strategic thinker with a business-first mindset who can operate as a trusted partner in running and evolving the annuities function. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong critical thinking, the ability to synthesize complex information, and a proactive, solutions-oriented approach to driving the business forward. This role requires deep annuity expertise, strong actuarial judgment, and proven leadership capabilities. The individual will lead a team of actuarial analysts, oversee core analytics and reporting processes, and partner closely with finance and business leaders on projections and earnings. The role is designed for a career ASA or FSA who can quickly step into a high-impact leadership position and help advance analytical maturity across the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, or related field.
- 10-12 years of related experience.
- Experience leading and managing a team.
- Strong technical actuarial background with hands-on experience in modeling, analytics, or financial analysis.
- Demonstrated ability to work across multiple actuarial disciplines (e.g., pricing, valuation, ALM, reporting).
- Advanced proficiency in data analysis techniques, including some experience coding in Python or R
Nice To Haves
- Strong foundation in banking, hedge funds, or asset management.
- Strategic thinker with a business-first mindset.
- Strong critical thinking.
- Ability to synthesize complex information.
- Proactive, solutions-oriented approach.
- Deep annuity expertise.
- Strong actuarial judgment.
- Proven leadership capabilities.
- Career ASA or FSA.
Responsibilities
- Provide on-demand actuarial and financial analysis to support ad hoc requests that span across the actuarial organization.
- Rapidly ramp up on unfamiliar problem sets and deliver high-quality outputs with minimal direction.
- Applies fundamental actuarial principles in analyzing company and industry data to prepare actuarial analyses.
- Provides leadership, prioritizing the most impactful actions focused on meeting our financial targets.
- Collaborates with leadership by effectively interacting, being open to opinions and feedback, and challenging and debating when necessary.
- Develops comprehensive methodologies that balance growth, retention, and profitability.
- Prepares and presents summaries and recommendations of actuarial analyses for distribution to senior management, other American National departments, reinsurers, and regulators.
- Effectively communicates the results of actuarial analyses to all levels of the organization and to interested outside parties.
- Completes processes and improves methods for performing and documenting actuarial analyses promptly and accurately.
- Supports and trains less experienced analysts with actuarial techniques, spreadsheets, databases, and sources of data used in actuarial analyses.
- Support projects across: Pricing, VM-22 / Regulatory initiatives, M&A due diligence and integration support.
- Translate business questions into structured actuarial analyses and clearly communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
