Senior Manager - Financial Services - Insurance and Actuarial Advisory Services - Modeling

Senior Manager – Financial Services – Insurance and Actuarial Advisory Services – Modeling – Advisory

Location:

New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Hartford, Boston

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence. We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go. Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Our actuarial advisers deliver creative and innovative thinking to clients worldwide, supporting them in making confident financial judgements in support of their business goals. Here, you’ll be right at the heart of that mission, leading engagement teams, working directly with clients, mentoring and developing team members, and building your personal brand as a leader in your field.

• Model development and optimization
• Model validations and efficiency assessments
• Actuarial transformation
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Financial and regulatory reporting

You’ll support key actuarial modeling practice priorities, focusing on driving innovation, expanding business opportunities, and enhancing market outreach. You’ll collaborate with other practice leaders, both actuarial and non-actuarial, for go‑to‑market and the development of cross‑service offerings.

• Consistently deliver quality client services and high‑quality work products within expected time frames and on budget. Monitor progress, manage risk and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
• Assist clients in tackling unique and complex business issues using your experience, innovative solution development, leadership and a strong EY support team.
• Cultivate and manage business development opportunities, understanding EY and its service lines and actively assessing ways to serve clients. Develop and maintain long‑term client relationships and networks. Develop relationships with team members across all EY practices to serve client needs.
• Foster an innovative and inclusive team‑oriented work environment. Play an active role in counselling and mentoring junior consultants within the organization. Provide constructive feedback and coaching to team members in real time.
• Demonstrate in‑depth technical capabilities and professional knowledge, with the ability to quickly assimilate new knowledge.
• Possess good business acumen and remain current on new developments in advisory services capabilities and industry knowledge.
• Understand and communicate complex actuarial issues, stay informed of and apply professional standards and firm policies (e.g., Actuarial Standards of Practice).
• Develop a strong personal brand and enhance the EY brand by writing articles, participating in industry groups and speaking at seminars.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics or another related major
• Approximately 8+ years of relevant experience, including at least 4 years of people and/or project management
• Fellowship in the Society of Actuaries
• Strong knowledge of at least one prominent actuarial modeling software platform including but not limited to:
  Moodys GGY AXIS, FIS Prophet, Milliman ALFA/Integrate, Aon Benfield Path Wise, Slope, Poly Systems, among others
• Strong writing, presentation, conceptual, analytical, project management, and interpersonal skills
• A proven ability to manage time while working on multiple, often shifting, projects, and the confidence to work both collaboratively and independently under pressure
• Willingness and ability to travel to meet client needs

• Prior experience with key platform library coding modules specific to actuarial modeling platforms worked with previously (asset, liability, economic‑related modules)
• Solution design expertise, with the ability to effectively translate business requirements into modeling solutions
• Proficient in model staging and development skill sets, including coding, data transformation and prep, batch creation and automation, assumption management, and extraction / manipulation of model output
• Proficient in model development lifecycle processes and…