Monday, October 20, 2008

Assistant Manager - ACTUARIAL - Hong Kong

Assistant Manager - ACTUARIAL Assist the Financial Reporting Actuary to ensure the delivery of financial results and reports such as monthly valuation, business plans and value measures on a timely basis. Manage, maintain and improve the financial reporting processes to ensure on-going accuracy and timely delivery of results; and timely and accurate implementation of process changes.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Prepare financial reports for review by Financial Reporting Actuary and Chief Actuary; providing explanations and recommendations that are relevant to the business and external stakeholders.

Prepare assumptions documents, methodology guidelines and Prophet change specifications.

Review the work to ensure that it meets required service standard.

Plan and manage workflow for assigned financial reporting tasks and coordinate the plans.

Manage junior staff to meet deadlines and quality standards

Review the work of junior staff to ensure consistency, reasonableness, comprehensiveness and suitability for purpose

Manage valuation data checking to ensure quality of source data

Provide ad-hoc support for the local business in line with priority

Propose and implement improvements to regular financial reporting processes, analyses, reports and documentation

Manage and implement process changes to ensure that any new financial reporting requirements are implemented on time and as specified by the Financial Reporting Actuary

Ensure that documentation and audit trail are maintained up-to-date for all processes

QUALIFICATIONS:

Qualified or Associate-level Actuary

4 or more years’ experience in the life insurance industry

Good command of business English, both in written and spoken form

Interested Applicants please send your resume (in Word format) together with present and expected salary to Erwin De Smet:

Tel: (852) 2521-5118 ext.824

Email: erwin.desmet@pplesearch.com

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