Vice President, Asset Analytics – Remote

Symetra

19d • Remote

About The Position

Symetra is seeking a strategic and highly effective senior leader to serve as
Vice President, Asset Analytics. This role leads the strategy, prioritization,
governance, and communication of the enterprise asset analytics function — the
team responsible for enterprise asset modeling, asset-liability management
(ALM), asset optimization, economic assumption setting, asset-related financial
planning support, and associated reporting across the Actuarial Division and
beyond.

About the role

Reporting to the Chief Actuary, this leader will set direction, establish
decision standards, and provide oversight for the asset analytics organization —
while also maintaining strong technical credibility and engagement in the work
itself.

This is first and foremost a leadership role: setting vision, modernizing
capabilities, building talent, clarifying ownership boundaries, and ensuring
senior executives receive clear, confident explanations of complex asset
results.

The Asset Analytics
team
is responsible for:

Enterprise asset modeling across the full balance sheet
Enterprise ALM reporting and support
Financial planning and analysis for invested assets
Asset optimization analysis
Economic and capital market assumption setting
Asset-related reporting and performance attribution
Knowledge-sharing across Actuarial, Investments, Finance, and senior
leadership

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (mathematics, finance, economics, engineering, statistics, or similar) required. Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) in Finance, Economics, or related quantitative field preferred.
• 15+ years of relevant experience, with significant experience in life insurance investment or asset modeling.
• Deep understanding of asset strategy and investment spread management reporting for annuities
• Extensive knowledge of insurance asset-liability management and regulatory capital frameworks.
• Proven experience leading and developing technical teams.
• Consistent record of communicating complex financial and quantitative concepts to senior and leadership.
• Professional designation such as CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst), CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst), FSA (Fellow of the Society of Actuaries) or another relevant industry designation required.
• Experience with structured products, asset-backed finance (ABF), commercial mortgage loans (CML), residential mortgage loans (RML), private direct lending, alternatives (e.g. buyout, mezzanine, co-investments, etc.) and derivative hedging.
• Familiarity with insurance regulatory regimes, including Bermuda.
• Experience supervising technical programming efforts (Python or similar), though hands-on coding is not required for this leadership role.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise asset analytics function with responsibility for both strategic direction and technical excellence. Set the vision and operating model for the team while ensuring delivery of high-quality asset modeling, ALM analytics, and optimization capabilities that inform financial planning, capital management, pricing, and enterprise decision-making.
• Build and develop a diversified team of asset modelers, quants, and analytics professionals, incorporating skills that extend beyond traditional actuarial backgrounds to include structured credit expertise, quantitative finance, and data analytics. Establish clear training pathways, strengthen technical depth, and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• A core mandate of the position is modernization — moving the function from model production to scalable insight generation. This includes replacing manual processes with production-ready workflows, enhancing data visualization and self-service analytics, and defining clear boundaries between standardized modeling, optimization exercises, and customized analyses.
• Implement a formal governance framework for asset models and analytics, establish structured enterprise-wide intake and prioritization processes for ad hoc requests, and clarify roles and responsibilities across ALM, Valuation, FP&A, and Investments consistent with industry standards.
• Oversee development of enterprise models of asset cash flows, book values, and market values across all asset classes. Responsibilities include ALM analytics, asset optimization modeling incorporating regulatory capital impacts, oversight of actuarial valuation models for custom private assets and derivative hedges, development of mapping methodologies for structured assets, investigation of model drivers, and preparation of clear explanations of Statutory and GAAP investment performance versus plan and prior periods. Be a thought leader for general strategic conversations related to portfolio composition and performance.
• Translate complex quantitative outputs into concise, decision-ready insights and serve as a trusted strategic thought partner to senior and executive leadership.
• Work closely with and cultivate a strong relationship with the Head of Portfolio Management.

Benefits

• Flexible full-time or hybrid telecommuting arrangements
• Plan for your future with our 401(k) plan and take advantage of immediate vesting and company matching up to 6%
• Paid time away including vacation and sick time, flex days and ten paid holidays
• Give back to your community and double your impact through our company matching

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive