Senior Life & Savings Expert - (M/F)
AXA
- Puteaux, Hauts-de-Seine
- CDI
- Temps-plein
- Ability to work transversally in a large organisation and align multiple stakeholders at all levels
- Highly self-motivated with a high level of autonomy and ability to effectively prioritise
- Ability to effectively convey complex issues into clear and easy-to-understand oral or written presentations in perfect English
- Ability to relate technical metrics to commercial objectives and communicate these objectives effectively to a diverse range of stakeholders including Group senior management.
- Comfortable with complexity and unstructured problem solving
- Evaluate technical performance of L&S product range
- Conduct In-Depth Reviews of AXA subsidiaries’ L&S product ranges (unit linked, general accounts, pure protection products). Key objectives are assessment of the quality of new business, identification of technical issues and comparison to Group standards, as well as monitoring the implementation of associated action plans, using written, oral, and interpersonal techniques depending on the situation.
- Lead Product Reviews of AXA subsidiaries’ L&S products, focussing on the financial assessment of these products using industry and AXA specific metrics, especially IFRS17, and Solvency II-type measures, as well as broader product development assessments.
- At Group level, provide technical support in the definition of the AXA Group strategy, ensure relevance of the financial KPIs at product level, and support appropriate monitoring of financial and actuarial metrics.
- Help AXA’s subsidiaries resolve local technical issues (commercial, product, actuarial or risk management) and implement remedial actions
- Provide technical support to AXA’s subsidiaries on local technical issues where headquarters assistance brings added value.
- Lead and actively contribute to expert working groups across entities, and ensure best practice sharing and knowledge management in relation to L&S products and pricing.
- Drive product technical excellence at Group level
- Contribute to the development and maintenance of the standards and guidelines relating to L&S product design, product management and pricing, and their implementation in entities.
- Provide benchmarks for technical excellence in the form of advice, guidance notes, tools and training in actuarial and product subject areas.
- Contribute Expert Group communities
- Contribute actively to the expert Group communities involving operational entities and Corporate center teams. Identify and disseminate best practices across operational entities and provide systematic group support via benchmarks, advice, guidance notes, tools and training.
- Group Underwriting Committee
- Group Risk Management departments
- Finance departments
- Local Heads of Life, Actuarial Function Holders, Chief Risk Officers and L&S technical specialists in local subsidiaries
- 10-15+ years of experience within life, savings and investments products as an actuary, preferably including experience in more than one country
- Comprehensive knowledge of life, savings and investment products design, management and pricing methodologies and tools
- In-depth understanding of life, savings and investment product valuation and solvency principles
- IFRS and financial reporting knowledge desirable