Many actuaries are now recognising that a role in actuarial recruitment is a viable alternative, offering long-term career prospects, a flexible working environment and autonomy over your career direction. You will be continually exposed to technical actuarial concepts as well as significantly raising your profile within the profession.

Careers paths will include a choice of a springboard to your next actuarial role, particularly consulting and reinsurance, or progressing to a senior/country manager within our Group.

The actuarial qualification and specialist experience is highly portable and the qualification has mutual recognition around the world. In addition the supply of actuarial and risk management skills in many countries is small and there has been significant demand for skills from around the world.

We anticipate significant growth in the global actuarial market and the global financial crisis has further focussed demand on risk management skills.

Acumen Resources currently have offices in Dublin, London, Hong Kong and Sydney - offering you access to candidates and clients from around the world.

You could be anywhere from part-qualified to 5 years post-qualified - your level of qualification isn’t as important as the skills you will bring to the role, with remuneration to match your contribution.

So, if you want to remain within the actuarial sphere but fancy a different challenge by contributing to the growth of our business in any of the above locations, have an informal chat with our CEO Paul Walsh on +353 1 6099404 or paul@acumen-resources.com

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Role Purpose:
Reporting to a senior Director, assist in the implementation of the product strategy for Life Retirement Products to meet the key performance indicators. This role will assist in devising and implementing the strategy for centralising many of the core functions.

The role supports multiple distribution channels (retail, bancassurance and direct), and within multiple regulatory environments.

Duties:
* Build strong cross-functional relationships to ensure that all stakeholders are engaged in the process of product development across the Centre of Excellence and local markets
* Monitoring the product development pipeline for Retirement Products for specific product lines
* Production of research papers on new product lines, product line trends, etc
* Undertake competitor analysis in all markets and gain detailed understanding of competitor products in all Local markets
* Gain a good understanding of specific retirement product line related regulatory issues within all local markets
* Review product specifications and provide guidance in the sign-off of product specifications

Role Purpose:
Responsible for developing and delivering an effective European centre of excellence for Pricing Changes to drive the planned levels of profitability and sales at market and regional levels.

This role will develop the strategy and processes to centrally drive and control day to day pricing changes. The role will be responsible for leading the pricing interface between each local market and the pricing centre of excellence.

It will involve leading pricing change proposals in each of the markets as well as responding to pricing request changes from each local market and supporting the local product team with pricing changes.

Experience:
* Strong commercial and strategic awareness with senior management experience in a pricing role
* Knowledge of European markets or a desire to build this knowledge rapidly
* Extensive understanding of GI pricing at both operational and strategic levels
* Excellent leadership skills with the ability to motivate and lead a team
* Excellent relationship management skills with the ability to influence at all levels and across different markets and functions. This is a key competency for this role in order to drive the successful implementation of price changes across multiple markets.

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Our client urgently requires Prophet developers for lucrative contracts in the Bristol area.

Ideally you will have experience of working with IPI or unit-linked products. 2 years + recent Prophet development experience is essential.

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Our client is building a team of experienced life and non-life actuaries to provide advice to international agencies in the areas of insurance supervision and, regulation and legislation.

These are varied roles involving business development as well as technical work.

You may also get involved in developing training programmes for clients.

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Our client is a world class player in the life and health market and requires an actuary to work in their pricing research and oversight team

The Pricing Actuary will be responsible for ensuring that pricing is being carried out consistently across the business lines and to a high standard. This will be achieved by active involvement in the derivation of the bases in each of the product lines. In addition you will manage a small team.

You will need strong analytical skills, combined with sound judgement and commercial awareness. Previous protection pricing experience is essential. You are likely to be nearly or fairly recently qualified.

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An opportunity to join a major consulting firm in their growing Analytics team. Providing services to a wide range of financial and non financial services clients their work includes predictive and behavioural modelling for customers and operations, forensic analytics, risk quantification, business decision support and optimisation/ KPI Management.

You will have 3-6 years experience in data analytics or data mining and the ability to manage and deliver complex solutions in a practical way, as well as the ability or potential to consult at the highest level. You will have a strong appreciation and hands-on skills with statistics and data mining products such as SAS, SPSS, R and the drive and ambition to make a major contribution to a rapidly growing team.

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Our client requires an Investment Associate and a Senior Associate to undertake a wide range of tasks within their Consulting team, supporting the work of the team delivering investment advice to clients. In carrying out these tasks, you will:

• Originate and/or check investment analysis and draft or review client advice;
• Act as project manager on medium and larger clients, and as primary client contact on small and medium clients, attending client meetings where appropriate;
• Maintain effective communication with other internal divisions and external investment managers that are involved in servicing the client;
• Make a contribution to the development of the Consulting business and the company’s intellectual capital.

We would like to hear from students and recently qualified actuaries who have some previous experience in the investment field.

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Junior trainee required for this contract position, with the possibility of being made permanent. The successful candidate is required to provide actuarial expertise and support in all fund related aspects of the business. This will include:

Migration of fund administration for existing internal funds from a spreadsheet based system to our fund administration system
Setting up of new funds on the system
Where necessary work with the system provider to develop and meet business requirements
Provide support to the fund administration team for the funds which have already been migrated to the system.
Assisting in the calculations required for fund suspensions, closures and other corporate actions
Provide actuarial support and guidance in the management of funds offering investment guarantees and protection
Other tasks as directed by the Unit Pricing and Operations Manager or the Head of Actuarial

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Responsibilities:
•Build and maintain modelling platforms for the local markets across Europe
•Use the modelling platforms to measure different strategies against the many KPIs that are used across Europe
•Appreciate and understand developments in ALM modelling outside Europe and apply when appropriate
•Key input into setting investment strategy for Europe and local markets
•Key input into setting reinsurance strategy for Europe and local markets
•Investigate and recommend innovative solutions to manage risk and maximise return
•Investigate and suggest areas where ALM modelling techniques could be employed to add value

Experience:
•5+ years experience in ALM/Financial Risk roles.
•Experience of modelling software
•Relevant financial services sector experience and experience of working in a regulated environment

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