Actuarial Specialist

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Description and Requirements
Position Summary
MetLife, one of the worlds leading financial services companies, offers insurance, annuities, employee benefits, and asset management to individual and institutional customers. MetLife Global Operations Support Center (GOSC), part of Global Technology & Operations provides MetLife with a strategic advantage through its world class i nfrastructure, operating practices and highly skilled workforce.
This role shall provide an opportunity to work in one of areas such as Valuation and Reporting (Statutory, US GAAP, IFRS17, Solvency II, Local Stat.), Reinsurance, Product Peer Review, Modeling, Experience Studies, ALM etc. The team is aligned across regions (US, EMEA and Asia) and will provide an exposure to learn / interact with Global and Regional Chief Actuaries.
Job Responsibiliti es
To ensure delivery of below objectives (exact combination would depend upon role alignment):

• Support the actuarial valuation of liabilities on monthly and quarterly basis
• Oversee valuation and engage with stakeholders to test, analyze, and quantify impacts variable changes
• Responsible for the production & analysis of results across different valuation bases, reporting requirements
• Ensuring compliance with the regulation and responsible for audit, regulators request and other related tasks
• Provide explanation and analysis of results to leaders including the production of written reports
• Perform variance analysis & effectively manage research/resol ution/follow-u ps for closure of open items and explain results to the Reporting manager
• Support in specification and validation of new valuation methodologies and product implementation s
• Provide support in managing US GAAP valuation and reporting
• Develop and support the team in areas such as automation projects
• Active involvement in the areas of UAT test and valuations of new products
  
  
  

Key Performance Indicators:

• Error free preparation of financial reports within required timelines and relevant actuarial standards;
• Work on any ongoing enhancements/d evelopments to improve/simpli fy/automate the reporting process including use of the new age AI tools
• Contributing towards building a culture of collaboration, engagement, and trust while supporting the professional development of team members
• Active delegation and execution of work while maintaining strong focus on quality, timeliness, and effective communications
• Taking demonstrable ownership of work; clearly flagging any issues and goal delivery concerns to leadership team
• Execution of second-line data validation and completeness checks complying to actuarial and audit standards
  

Education, Technical Skills & Other Critical Requirement
Education

• Should be a graduate preferably in a numerate stream
• Minimum 3 actuarial exams
  

Experience
(In Years)

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  Minimum 2 years of actuarial experience
  

Technical Skills

• An understanding of actuarial reporting software
  

OR

• Awareness of Solvency II, IFRS, Economic Capital, US GAAP and Embedded Value / Knowledge of reserving, Local Insurance Laws, regulations would be beneficial
  

Other Critical Requirements

• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Respectful of deadlines, discipline and process, yet flexible and pragmatic
• Aptitude for finding creative solutions to problems, challenge preconceptions
• Attention to detail
• Good business acumen
  

About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazines list of the Worlds Most Admired Companies and Fortune Worlds 25 Best Workplaces, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the worlds leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - were inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, its #AllTogetherPossible .?Join us!