Job Description

Supporting the financial strength of the business by successfully balancing the competing demands of commerciality and prudence in a well governed and controlled environment Delivering clear and incisive decision support, through commercially focused business partnering and by providing transparent, risk based advice underpinned by a fully embedded materiality framework Creating a truly agile Finance function, which is responsive to changing market conditions and client requirements Ensuring best in class service delivery through robust service management and through the delivery of efficient and optimized processes

This Finance Assistant will sit within the Management Reporting, With-Profits Support team and will contribute to the achievement of one or more of these outcomes in order to deliver the vision for Finance.

This is a 7 month fixed term contract opportunity and will begin working from home and then have a blended work pattern from home and from either our Craigforth or London office.

Colleague:

• Accountable for delivering a quality service and product to customers and stakeholders
• Focuses on quality of delivery to achieve clear outputs within guidelines and precedent
• Runs the organization’s processes and systems following pre-defined procedures
• Adapts to change, responds with initiative and make suggestions for improvements to own work and processes

Key responsibilities for this role:

The role offers the opportunity to be involved in a wide range of Actuarial work supporting the management of the With-Profits products, including:

• With-Profits Management (including bonus setting).
• Development and maintenance of claims and projection bases
• Monitoring and analyzing bonus smoothing costs and compliance with target ranges for with-profits claim pay-outs
• Process investigations, improvements and/or project support
• Helping ensure customers are treated fairly

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Highly effective communication skills, both written and oral. Ideally previous experience within an actuarial team. Able to disseminate quality information to internal and external stakeholders. Able to develop a broad base of relationships with key contacts across Finance and with key business stakeholders. Strong experience of using Microsoft applications, in particular Excel and VBA.