Consulting - Financial Services - Business Consulting - Actuarial Services - Manager/Senior Manager - Ernst & Young Advisory Services Limited - Hong Kong

The opportunity

EY’s Global Actuarial Services practice, with over 2000 actuarial professionals in over 30 jurisdictions, ranks in the Top 3 actuarial services practices in the world. Our deep global knowledge comes from our work with insurance companies, banks, pension funds, private equity firms, sovereign funds and regulators to provide actuarial and insurance consulting services including the following fields of expertise:

• Capital management, e.g., asset and liability management, Insurance Capital Standard (ICS), Solvency II, risk-based capital, economic capital
• Enterprise risk management, e.g., risk appetite, risk identifications including key risk indicators, risk quantification and calibration, risk reporting, own risk and solvency assessment (ORSA)
• Financial reporting, e.g., US GAAP, IFRS, Statutory valuation, market consistent embedded value, European embedded value, traditional embedded value, appraisal value
• Insurance strategy consulting, e.g., merger and acquisition, new entry to an insurance market
• Internal and external audit, e.g., SOX404, actuarial process and control review
• Actuarial and finance transformation
• Actuarial modelling
• Distribution and claims consulting
• Regulatory consulting

EY Asia-Pacific Actuarial and Insurance Consulting Team is one of the largest insurance services firms in Asia. We provide actuarial and risk management services to clients throughout Asia from its team of actuarial and risk professionals located in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Taiwan, Japan, Seoul, India, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand. This team is part of EY’s global insurance network and has close links with the firm’s practices in North America and Europe.

Being part of this team, you will be working with both local talents and global experts. We will support you with career-long training and coaching to develop your skills in actuarial and risk management. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

Your key responsibilities:

• Add value to clients by highlighting and articulating the wider business implications of an actuarial project
• Leverage knowledge or prior experience to evaluate alternative strategies and to develop, present and defend logical conclusions, recommendations and implementation strategies/plans
• Contribute to capability development and actuarial knowledge base through feeding back best practices and redefining tools and techniques as appropriate
• Apply actuarial knowledge and understanding of business issues to produce work products across all phases of a project
• Articulate logical steps to tackle new questions and challenges
• Coach and provide guidance to team members and review their work
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with client
• Identify needs and priorities of existing clients in order to expand consulting opportunities
• Articulate the business case for the value-added or benefits realized from a project 
• Play a leading role in successful proposal activities

Requirements

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• University / College graduate with at least 10 years of insurance experience in an actuarial and/or risk related role
• Qualified or near qualified actuary
• Proficiency in MS Office
• Solid knowledge in insurance financial reporting basis, e.g. IFRS 17, HKICO, Solvency II, HK RBC, is preferred
• Proficiency in actuarial software, e.g. Prophet, AXIS, is an advantage
• Able to process, analyze information and provide actuarial judgement and advice
• Good command of spoken and written English; Mandarin is an advantage
• Good project management, communication and people skill

What working at EY offers:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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