Senior Pricing Associate - eFinancialCareers : Job Details

At M&G our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work. As an international savings and investments business with roots stretching back more than 170 years, we offer a range of financial products and services through Asset Management, Life and Wealth. All three operating segments work together to deliver attractive financial outcomes for our clients, and superior shareholder returns. Through our behaviours of telling it like it is, owning it now, and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent. We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role. Senior Pricing Associate, CRS Corporate Risk Solutions (CRS) is a division within M&G Life with a remit to design and deliver bulk purchase annuities and alternative de-risking products for Defined Benefit pension schemes. Due to ongoing success and a strong opportunity set, the team is adding headcount in a number of areas. The remit of the Pricing team is broad and the successful candidate will have exposure to an extremely wide variety of projects. CRIS has ambitious new business targets and is looking for exceptional people who will help deliver results. Key Responsibilities:

• Key role on end-to-end pricing for BPAs and other de risking solutions
• Working with colleagues from across the business and outsourcing partners to integrate commercial, investment, longevity, reinsurance, balance sheet management and structuring workstreams into pricing projects
• Supporting senior stakeholders across CRS and M&G Life with technical analysis, strategy, business planning and ad hoc queries
• Supporting distribution and transaction management colleagues with the production of high quality client deliverables and wider relationship management activities
• Developing new and enhanced modelling capability, including tech solutions across the CRS pricing infrastructure
• Supporting pricing development of novel bulk annuity transaction structures, reinsurance solutions, and new product lines
• Key role in Pricing projects run in partnership with the Treasury and Investment Office, Finance Strategy & Finance Reporting teams

Key Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Commercially minded nearly or recently qualified Actuary with exceptional technical skills
• Experience of bulk annuity pricing, funded reinsurance, longevity reinsurance, life insurance balance sheet management or modelling UK DB Pensions required
• Understanding of Solvency II/UK for life insurance, in particular balance sheet construction, liability discounting, asset strategy & ALM valuable
• Experience of developing/structuring and pricing institutional insurance products valuable
• Understanding of non-standard capital and reinsurance structures valuable
• Ambitious and self-motivated with ability to work on own initiative/prioritise workload to strict deadlines
• Strong communication and presentation skills

Location: London Work Level: Experienced Colleague Recruiter: Amy Curtis Closing Date: 29/11/2024 We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc, underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities, advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or long term condition, we are looking to attract, promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks. M&G is also proud to be a Disability Confident Leader , and we welcome applications from candidates with long-term health conditions, disabilities, physical, mental health or neuro-divergent conditions. We participate in the Disability Confident 'Offer an Interview' scheme, which means that candidates with disabilities or long-term health conditions who meet the minimum criteria of a job, will be offered an interview if they 'opt in' to the scheme when applying. These candidates are also supported to ensure they have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job. If you need assistance or an alternative means of applying for a role due to a disability or additional need, please let us know by contacting us at: