- Professional
- Oficina en Birmingham
Job Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 29 October 2025
Location: This role could be based at our Birmingham, Edinburgh or London offices with time spent working in the office.
Flexible working: All our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.
Salary and Benefits: Up to £90k, plus 16% - 32% bonus, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.
We’re Phoenix Group, we’re a long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.
We are currently recruiting for With-Profits Technical Actuary to join our With-Profits Modernisation Programme to act as a subject matter expert, applying deep technical & business knowledge to aid senior management decision making.
Phoenix is the second largest provider of with-profits business in the UK with 22 With-Profits Funds. The With-Profits Management area is undertaking a large strategic programme to transform our with-profits funds, ensuring we deliver good outcomes for our with-profits customers.
The Role
This is an excellent opportunity to join a significant change programme that will deliver structural changes to with-profit funds such as fund mergers, buying out blocks of business, internal reinsurance and product simplification with the aim of improving customer outcomes and modernising our with-profits business.
Key Responsibilities
- Use your actuarial expertise to develop proposals and solutions for the Modernisation Programme, ensuring the needs of with-profits customers are met.
- Liaise with other departments and professionals both internal and external to ensure effective and efficient delivery of the Modernisation Programme.
- Contribute to the specification, development and testing of complex propositions or numerical models, analysing a range of business data, making recommendations to Senior Actuaries and/or senior management to support decision making.
- Contribute to the preparation of papers and reports for senior management as required, with suitable supervision.
- Lead small scale projects or elements of large scale more complex projects to support the business.
- Communicate effectively with a technical actuarial audience and simplify communications of technical issues to a non-technical audience.
- Regularly working to defined and tight timescales whilst maintaining professional standards.
- Balancing business demand, issues and risks by applying sound judgement in complex scenarios, often with considerable uncertainty.
What We’re Looking For
Essential
- Qualified Actuary with experience in the life insurance industry.
Desirable
- Experience of contributing to or leading projects to deliver strategic change, ideally in relation to with-profits business
- With-profits experience including a deep understanding of risks and issues associated with managing with-profits policies in run off.
We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.
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