Manager, Corporate Actuarial in London

Contract: Fixed term contract (6-12 months)

The DBS CA team is responsible for regular actuarial and capital reporting to senior management, Boards and for regulatory submissions. The function comprises five integrated teams: Capital Management and Reporting, Global Valuation Team, Actuarial Systems & Projects, and Actuarial Analytics & Insights (Protection & Savings and Retirement). This role will report into the Projects team and focus on the back‑office transformation project, Unify.

Role Responsibilities

• Serve as SME across ‘Reporting and Analysis’ for the Unify transformation project.
• Lead the project workstream responsible for moving the Analysis of Change (AoC) to the data warehouse, transitioning to a Power BI dashboard, and automating end‑to‑end processes.
• Design, build, and maintain interactive Power BI reports and executive dashboards for CA actuarial quarterly, annual, and day‑to‑day activities.
• Connect to multiple data sources (SQL, Snowflake, Excel) and use Power BI to aggregate and analyse vast datasets.
• Transition manual Excel‑based processes into automated Power BI pipelines.
• Clean, validate, and manipulate significant datasets using SQL, Python, or R.
• Perform quality assurance and data validation checks to ensure the accuracy and consistency of actuarial reports.
• Understand data flows, reporting, analytics, and controls so that reports built in the as‑is world can be continued in the to‑be data‑warehouse environment.
• Effectively manage stakeholders at various levels—including senior management, local CA teams, and other functional teams—providing regular progress and challenge communication.
• Leverage strong technical knowledge of reporting, including USGAAP (LDTI), IFRS 17, and other local bases.
• Facilitate the delivery of change, identifying, communicating, and managing change aspects of systems, processes/controls, and people.
• Support an effective transition to BAU, engaging with relevant change‑focused individuals such as Project Unify to align with the back‑office vision.
• Demonstrate an understanding of end‑to‑end processes and data across the back‑office.
• Help embed and improve the global control framework for reporting.

Skills & Experience

• Qualified actuary with a minimum of three years’ experience in life insurance or life reinsurance, preferably life reinsurance.
• Track record of challenging and improving processes and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Awareness of BPA transactions and processes.
• Experience with actuarial modelling software (Tyche preferable) and proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Power BI.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining interactive Power BI reports and integrating data from systems.
• Experience supporting change and the introduction of new processes, controls, and systems.
• Experience meeting regulatory, audit, and risk requirements in the design and implementation of new processes.
• Transformational mindset to ensure processes are efficient, scalable, and future‑proof.
• Experience or understanding across multiple regions, reporting bases, and Lines of Business, especially BMA and US GAAP reporting, and Analysis of Change and analytical spreadsheets.
• Experience or understanding of pricing and/or operations processes desirable but not essential.

Competencies and Behaviours

• Ability to work on own initiative and proactively manage a varied and demanding workload, ensuring tasks are completed efficiently.
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Proven focus on quality, ensuring deliverables are accurate and fit for purpose.
• Proven ability to work with other functions, developing and maintaining working relationships.
• Ability to understand and apply new concepts quickly, showing initiative, flexibility, and resourcefulness.
• Adaptability to change and evolving environments.
• Pragmatic, able to balance accuracy with effort.
• Willingness to challenge the status quo.

Benefits (Only for Permanent and Fixed‑Term Employees)

• 25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days.
• Adoption and fertility leave.
• Generous enhanced parental leave.
• Healthcare: comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents.
• Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary and Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary.
• Optical benefits.
• Savings & Retirement: 15% combined employee/employer contributions.
• Wellness: subsidised gym membership.
• Access to Employee Assistance Program.
• Cycle to Work and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme.
• Time off for volunteering.
• Charitable matching of employee donations.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion and 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.