Associate Director - Life Actuarial

The Role

As a Senior Actuarial Consultant - Life, you will take prominent role in supporting business development and lead a wide variety of complex projects such as financial modelling, mergers and acquisitions for life insurance firms. Responsibilities include:

Clients

• Participate or take the lead in business development activities. You may be supporting in business development activities across all our areas of expertise, not restricted to life insurance.
• Work with the team in developing go-to-market propositions.
• Deliver superior, consistent project management for assigned clients.
• Draft statements of work, project plans and budgets involving multiple workflow streams and client teams.
• Serve as the day-to-day project lead, ensuring the progress of the team against established objectives, budget, timeline, deliverables and quality standards.
• Serve as primary, daily contact to clients on delivery of services.
• Develop a trusted advisor relationship with client contacts through effective communication and efficient, quality execution of projects. Manage client relationship of key clients allocated to you.
• Working as part of a multidisciplinary consulting or joint client-consultant team to analyze issues and develop value-added solutions.
• Interface with colleagues from other practices and regions on assignments that reflect the client’s broader business issues.

Excellence

• Deliver high-quality work in compliance with WTW Excellence standards and proactively look for process improvement.
• Develop a strong understanding of the Life Insurance industry in the Southeast Asia markets.
• Manage your time effectively between multiple assignments at a time.

Financial

• Contribute to sales and marketing efforts by drafting proposals and responding to RFPs.
• Meet billable hours target.
• Meet personal sales credit target and contribute to regional sales targets.

People

• Build relationships internally and collaborate effectively on cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrate natural ease and effectiveness when dealing with clients/colleagues at all levels.
• Serve as mentor to project team associates.

The Requirements

• At least 10 years of life insurance experience in a consulting firm, financial services organization or life insurance or reinsurance firm.
• Proven track record in business development in the financial services sector.
• Well-developed verbal communication skills.
• Strong in actuarial technical covering financial modelling, financial reporting under Southeast Asia regimes, product pricing etc.
• A track record of performing life insurance work as well as the ability to contribute to cross-practice client engagements.
• Proven experience successfully managing multiple projects and producing quality deliverables on time and within budget.
• Strong client relationship, interpersonal and team skills.
• Self-starter attitude and ability to work within ambiguity.
• Flexibility and proven ability to diagnose and resolve issues.
• Strong analytical and creative skills.
• Enjoy training/mentoring junior staff.
• The ability to see the "big picture," leveraging the resources of related practices to address the clients' business challenges.

Equal Opportunity Employer