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About the Role

This role offers varied, high-impact work, exposure to senior management, and the chance to influence the future direction of Europe Protection and wider PL Re. It requires strong actuarial judgement, commercial awareness, and the ability to explain risks, results, and balance sheet movements clearly.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the Protection AA&I team’s strategic priorities and strengthen understanding of Protection financial results.
• Analyse and explain quarterly financial results, including attributing and explaining key result movements, using scenarios and sensitivities to explain financial dynamics, and providing clear insight and proposed management actions for Protection results and balance sheets.
• Identify and assess value-add opportunities for the Europe Protection business, grounded in a strong understanding of its economic performance.
• Support the scoping, delivery, and implementation of process, system, and methodology enhancements.
• Manage stakeholders effectively by building effective networks and communicating with clarity, and developing strong relationships across Protection and wider DBS.

Requirements

• Qualified actuary (or equivalent actuarial experience)
• Experience working in life insurance or reinsurance, ideally with exposure to the UK Protection market
• Proven ability to investigate and explain financial movements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience working with actuarial models
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver to tight deadlines
• Strong communication skills
• Prioritises effectively under tight deadlines
• Stakeholder management and business engagement
• Learns quickly, shows initiative and adapts with flexibility and resourcefulness.
• Self-starter with a solution-focused mindset
• Embraces change and can work in a fluid environment
• Pragmatic, able to balance accuracy with effort
• Collaborates effectively across functions and maintains strong working relationships

Skills

• Strong understanding of actuarial reporting and financial result analysis
• Experience supporting actuarial or finance system implementations
• Exposure to Oracle Fusion ERP and/or Oracle EPM solutions
• Knowledge of US GAAP, IFRS 4, Solvency II, Bermuda/Economic Capital or related reporting frameworks
• Experience supporting UAT and business readiness activities

Location

• Europe

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Qualified actuary

Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days
• Adoption and fertility leave
• Generous enhanced parental leave
• Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents
• Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary
• Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary
• Optical benefits
• 15% combined employee/employer contributions
• Subsidized gym membership
• Access to Employee Assistance Program
• Cycle to Work and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Time off for volunteering
• Charitable matching of employee donations

About the Company

• Pacific Life Re is a global life reinsurer operating across Europe, Asia, Australia and North America, and part of Pacific Life, a mutual insurance group.
• We do things differently: challenging industry thinking, innovating with purpose and delivering high-quality protection, savings and retirement reinsurance solutions.
• Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step.
• We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too.
• We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.
• Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture.
• We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives.
• We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees, partners and communities.
• We support all employees to thrive and achieve their fullest potential.
• As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.