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About the Role

Lead liability-driven investment strategy, portfolio construction, and repositioning for new reinsurance business, ensuring strategies meet business needs, manage risk, and align with asset-liability matching. Act as a senior deal lead for RGA Investments' transactions and support/lead local branch investment activities.

Responsibilities

• Craft target portfolio strategies for exceptional risk-adjusted returns in partnership with Portfolio Management.
• Collaborate with the Credit team on execution, analyzing client portfolios and creating target portfolios.
• Communicate and gain approval for target portfolio strategies from internal stakeholders, including the C-suite.
• Negotiate investment guidelines and treaty terms with clients to manage asset risk and achieve target returns.
• Lead asset-side transaction closure, including operational aspects of client portfolio reception.
• Direct portfolio repositioning from client strategy to RGA's target strategy.
• Suggest, review, and inform new tools and frameworks to enhance the new business pricing process.
• Develop relationships and strategic alliances with external contacts (Investment Banks, Asset Managers) and internal cross-functional areas.
• Manage and train direct reports, including portfolio managers and analysts.
• Support and lead investment/asset management initiatives for the Japan branch.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS) preferred.
• 15+ years of relevant work experience.
• Highly advanced investigative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Highly advanced Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel.
• Demonstrable work experience with CoPilot, Python/R, or similar languages.
• Highly advanced oral and written communication skills in English and Japanese.
• Expert understanding of investment/market concepts, particularly in insurance asset management in Japan and APAC regions.
• Highly advanced knowledge of asset liability management.
• Expert knowledge of portfolio and fixed income analytics (e.g., sector weightings, portfolio duration, performance attribution, convexity, term structure of interest rates).
• Ability to set goals and manage multiple tasks, clients, and projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and participate in department/team projects.
• Highly advanced negotiation skills for internal and external discussions.
• Demonstrable track record of successful investment strategy implementation, especially in insurance or reinsurance (preferred).
• Demonstrable understanding of JGAAP, US GAAP, and JSTAT (preferred).
• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Associate of the Society of Actuaries (ASA), Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), or Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) (preferred).

Skills

• Investigative skills
• Analytical skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Microsoft Office
• Excel
• CoPilot
• Python
• R
• Oral communication (English)
• Written communication (English)
• Oral communication (Japanese)
• Written communication (Japanese)
• Investment/market concepts
• Insurance asset management
• Asset liability management
• Portfolio analytics
• Fixed income analytics
• Sector weightings
• Portfolio duration
• Performance attribution
• Convexity
• Term structure of interest rates
• Goal setting
• Multitasking
• Client management
• Project management
• Teamwork
• Negotiation skills
• Investment strategy implementation
• JGAAP
• US GAAP
• JSTAT

Location

• Japan
• APAC regions

Experience Level

• 15+ years relevant work experience
• Senior-level

Education Level

• Master’s degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS) (preferred)
• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) (preferred)
• Associate of the Society of Actuaries (ASA) (preferred)
• Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) (preferred)
• Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) (preferred)

Benefits

• Opportunity to gain knowledge and experience from diverse global colleagues.
• Respectful, welcoming environment fostering individuality and pioneering thought.
• Vast and endless career potential.

About the Company

• RGA is a purpose-driven organization solving challenges through innovation and collaboration.
• A Fortune 200 Company, listed among the World’s Most Admired Companies, and the only global reinsurance company focused primarily on life- and health-related solutions.
• Multinational team dedicated to making financial protection accessible to all.
• Driven by purpose, RGA solves today's challenges and looks to tomorrow as thinkers, creators, and innovators, believing in collaborative change for good.