Senior Results Reporting Actuary

Our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. With a heritage dating back more than 175 years, we have a long history of innovation in savings and investments, combining asset management and insurance expertise to offer a wide range of solutions.

Our two distinct operating segments, Asset Management and Life, work together to provide access to balanced, long-term investment and savings solutions.

Through telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity, we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer workplace accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.

About the Role

This role sits within Group Finance and plays a critical part in the integrity, consistency, and communication of the Group’s key performance metrics. The Senior Results Reporting Actuary is responsible for providing deep subject matter expertise across Group reporting metrics, supporting robust results production, and ensuring clear, high-quality explanations of performance to senior stakeholders and the external market. The role reports to the Head of Group Results and Analysis and interacts regularly with senior finance and business leaders.

Main Responsibilities

• Act as a subject matter expert on the methodology underpinning key Group performance metrics, supported by a good technical understanding of IFRS 17 and Solvency II reporting requirements, including:
  • Adjusted operating profit and Operating Change in CSM (Cash Security Margin)
  • Capital Generation and Solvency II
• Support the quarterly production of Group results across all relevant metrics, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and clear linkage between measures. This includes production of results packs and analysis for senior stakeholders.
• Assist the Head of Group Results and Analysis in applying methodology for new products, segments, and transactions, ensuring impacts are well understood and appropriately reflected in Group metrics.
• Develop a deep understanding of planning assumptions across all Group metrics that feed into forecasts and outturn processes. Drive clarity and alignment between forecasts and actual results by influencing and challenging inputs.
• Draft narrative content for semi-annual Business and Financial Reviews, and Q1 and Q3 trading updates, clearly explaining performance and movements in key metrics to the market.
• Act as a subject matter expert on assigned Group reporting metrics, confidently discussing methodology, assumptions, and results with senior stakeholders.
• Provide oversight, challenge, and guidance to the governance of actuarial methodology and assumptions, working closely with the Methodology and Assumptions team. Own the decision process for group overlays to business unit methodology and assumptions.