An opportunity has arisen within the Actuarial Capital and Asset Systems development team, supporting development, and testing of various actuarial systems. This role primarily aligns to the Capital Systems but there is scope to support the different area depending on the demand in the different areas. The role can be done from any location (must be within commuting distance of one of our key offices in London, Bristol, York or Norwich) and under flexible working arrangements including part time working. 

The Capital and Asset Systems team looks after various actuarial systems used by Group and Business Units. These include the SCR Systems – IM3/SFPIM/COMPASS, the Credit model and Asset Systems – Asset Stressing/Equity Release/Commercial Mortgage models within Aviva. The team maintains the existing systems and update them to support regular business activities. The team also always involves in project work, for example, improving the existing systems or bringing in new components to allow for new capabilities. We also work very closely with other actuarial modelling teams and the IT platform team in order to achieve simplification across the systems estate as well as able to run faster and cheaper.

The role will be responsible for the design, development and testing of the changes to the actuarial systems. It may also involve rolling out the systems, including supporting User Acceptance testing and carrying out training activities.

What will the role involve?

• Gather and understand requirements from Group, BUs and other teams that use the system

• Translate Actuarial concepts into requirements and clearly describe and document those in business terms

• Analyse requirements and develop design solutions against them.

• Assist development and build solutions into the system

• Run test activities to validate system build against business requirements and provide actuarial expertise

• Document and communicate design, development tasks and test evidence in effective way

• Pro-actively facilitate resolution of user issues/concerns

Skills, experience and qualifications we are looking for:

• Student Actuary/Newly Qualified Actuary (or equivalent by experience)

• Experience of Solvency 2 reporting, across Own Funds and SCR is desirable

• Experience in systems development and willing to learn new coding language

• Experience in MS Excel, VBA, Julia, VB.Net, Prophet ALS/DCS & Tyche preferred

• Ability to understand complex actuarial systems and the business processes which they support, and to understand the impact of the changes being tested

• Ability to work innovatively to develop solutions to fresh analytical problems

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Strong communication skills with different audience, for example, ability to communicate with business stakeholders to understand their requirements and to explain requirements to IT colleagues

• Ability to work independently and on their own initiative and know when to escalate

What will you get for this role?

• A salary up to £45,000 depending on location, experience and exam progress

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review

• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family (some exclusions apply)

• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take responsibility, and who make good decisions.

The way we do this is important too. We’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability and we’ll make sure we interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Daniela Krol a call on 0121 234 7660 or send an email to daniela.krol@aviva.com 

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.