New 2 year fixed term contract opportunity here at Aviva as we look to bring in a RI Valuations Actuary in a position we are hiring at multiple levels, suiting either a qualified or trainee Actuary.

The role is instrumental in producing regulatory and business actuarial information and insight (capital and reserving).

You will be joining a team of 40 onshore and 11 offshore employees which provides the Internal Model and Standard Formula results for UK, Canada and Ireland GI businesses; the S2TPs for UK, AIL and Ireland and the actuarial reserve calculations for UK.

The role holder will be accountable for sound actuarial judgement; running a key actuarial reporting process (in the capital and reserving areas).

Duties also require to act as deputy to the team leader and have responsibility for a material ‘lateral’ tasks (such as dealing with external auditors). You may have a junior trainee reporting into you.

You will be required to follow all the risk and controls processes in the team and look for ways to improve how we mitigate risk.

As well as reporting work, there is a strong culture of continuous innovation across the team, and everyone is expected to explore ways of improving their process.

Skills and Experiences

• Good understanding of actuarial reserving or capital models

• Strong communicator

• Able to be self motivating and take ownership of tasks

• Strong technically within the actuarial field

• Good team player

• Qualified or trainee actuary

• GI Experience is essential

What you will get

• Competitive salary depending on location, skills and experience

• 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 Ben Parker a call on 07833 239394 or send an email to ben.parker@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