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PWC

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Who we are looking for

The PwC Actuarial & Insurance Management Solutions (AIMS) practice comprises of over 200 partners and staff. With offices
in London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Bristol, our consultants focus on life, non life, banking and non insurance, led by
a twelve strong partner team headed by Charles Garnsworthy. This makes us the largest insurance practice within the large
accounting firms.


Our Edinburgh office was the first of our AIMS regional offices to be established and is currently around 25
people. Headed by Philippe Guijarro, our team is looking to expand further to help our clients in Scotland. Our clients
include Standard Life, Lloyds Banking Group, Aegon and Prudential. Whilst the role is based in Edinburgh, as part of the
wider UK AIMS practice there are opportunities to work with other clients across the UK and abroad in Europe or globally


AIMS is planning to expand significantly against a background of high client demand for actuarial services, driven in
part by Solvency II where we are recognised as one of the leaders in the development of best practice in the UK. Our
ambition is to grow to a sustainable 300 people by 2013/14. Our clients include a number of the leading UK insurers and
European multinationals, such as Aegon, Axa, JP Morgan, Lloyds Banking Group, Liberty Syndicates and LMIE, Old Mutual,
Phoenix, Prudential, RBS and more.


AIMS strategy firmly looks beyond Solvency II implementation to establish sustainable growth and reinforce our
market-leading position. We continue to invest in core areas of our life insurance work including financial reporting,
corporate restructuring and mergers & acquisitions, financial modelling, enterprise risk management. A significant and
increasing amount of our work is coming from Continental Europe. AIMS plays a leading role in the 800 strong actuarial
community in PwC worldwide,


We have a strong sense of culture developed over our 30 year history. We work in a friendly, positive and vibrant
atmosphere, where people are encouraged to take responsibility at an early stage and proactively develop their career. We
seek to develop accomplished consultants, not just technically strong actuaries. This means exposure to a wide range of
project situations, often working with specialists from other disciplines within PwC such as Transaction Services,
Regulatory, Risk Advisory, Corporate Finance, Business Recovery/Restructuring, Forensics, Tax, Accounting and Internal
Audit.


The individuals recruited would have a strong background either as a recognised strong life consultant or from
successfully delivering significant actuarially related projects from within the life industry.


In recognition of the need to invest in future growth of the practice, we are looking for individuals who not only have
demonstrated relevant technical skills and experience, but who also have the potential with development support to lead
on key client accounts and product areas, using strong relationship and people management skills.


PwC offer an unparalleled development framework which not only ensures our consultants have strong technical experience,
but also supports wider softer skills which are vital to success with our clients. We will ensure that the successful
candidates will have a tailored development plan, which will enable progression to more senior levels within the practice
in a relatively short timescale.




About the role

PwC is seeking Consultants from a life insurance background to join their UK

Actuarial & Insurance Management Solutions (AIMS) practice.


On a day-to-day basis the candidate will lead, manage and deliver a wide range of concurrent actuarial and
multidisciplinary assignments, and act as the clients main point of day-today contact on assignments.


The candidate will be actively involved in the development of new and existing client relationships and is expected to
maintain a strong personal profile internally in PwC and externally in the market to seek out new business opportunities.


We would expect the successful candidates to take an active role in the strategic management and running of the practice
and lead on one our core product areas or be involved as lead actuarial account driver on one of our major UK life
insurance clients.




Requirements

The successful candidate will:



* Have hold Degree


* Be a fully qualified Actuary


* Have spent most of their career to date in the life insurance market, either within a company or a consultancy


* Have a wider commercial awareness, including the understanding of wider business issues


* Have experience in financial reporting, corporate finance, market consistent techniques & financial modelling, ICAs,
Solvency II or risk management are particularly relevant, reflecting the future growth of our practice.



Personal Qualities:



* Have strong oral, listening and written communication skills.


* Have the potential to develop strong people management, client handling and development skills, including
inter-personal sensitivity and influencing skills.


* Have demonstrated an aptitude to develop good client/internal client handling skills, including relationship-building
skills that lead to increased consulting opportunities.


* Have strong project and financial management skills. The ability to deliver to budget and within timescales is an
important skill. We are looking for people with a flexible attitude and the ability to multi-task effectively. Have
strong technical, problem identification and analytical skills, most likely with at least one specialist area of
experience.


* Be commercial, with the ability and experience of working within a broader insurance environment, and with vision as
to developments at our clients and opportunities for consulting business.


* Be strongly committed to both personal and corporate success.


* Be self-motivated, in particular taking responsibility for personal development in technical and broader consulting
skills.





Our Competencies

Our people need to demonstrate a defined set of core skills and behaviours. We refer to these as our global core
competencies. They're integral to who we are as a firm and form the basis of our people appraisal process. We will also
assess you against them within our recruitment process to benchmark your own skills and behaviours. We recommend you
visit the below web page to find out more about our global core competencies and to consider how your own experiences
will align against them. This will help you through the recruitment process with us.


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