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Kuvare

Director, Actuary

Kuvare, Des Moines, Iowa, United States, 50319

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Kuvare is on a mission to serve hardworking consumers overwhelmed by the complexities of retirement and is built from the ground up to do so. Our unified financial hub protects the retirement of everyday Americans and the distributors, carriers and investors that serve them. We create life insurance and annuity products that protect consumers’ retirements, and are simplified for distributor partners and financial professionals to sell and service.

Kuvare family of companies:

Retail Annuity and Life Insurance Solutions:

United Life Insurance Company

Guaranty Income Life Insurance Company

Lincoln Benefit Life

Institutional Insurance:

Kuvare Life Re

Bespoke Insurance Solutions:

Ignite Partners

About the role The Actuarial Directors are part of the Actuarial team. The team covers an array of specialties including Life and Annuity Valuation, Modeling and Forecasting, Pricing & Product Management, Asset Liability Management, and Enterprise Risk Management. The actuarial team hopes to continue to develop Fellows in the Society of Actuaries. As a director, it can be expected to have an area of specialization but will also have opportunities to work across specialty areas. This recognizes that development does not end with attainment of Fellowship, or similar levels actuarial development. Supervision of actuarial students (either interns, associates, or senior associates) or other positions on either a project level or on a full-time reporting basis is possible.

What you'll do The Director on the Actuarial team will have day-to-day activities that depend on the function you support and are expected to evolve over time, potentially separated by several years. You may also oversee Senior Actuarial Associates, Actuarial Associates and possibly Actuarial Interns on technical model aspects.

Prepare, monitor, and analyze reserve trends monthly on GAAP, statutory, and tax accounting bases

Assist/Manage preparation of Statutory Annual and Quarterly Statements

Organize and prepare Valuation results for management review

Lead efforts or assist in gathering information and analysis for external auditor inspections

Develop methodology memos, change memos, management presentations on topics as needed

Organize and Maintain AXIS pricing model(s) to provide robust pricing and new business value analyses

Support rate setting and other non-guaranteed elements (NGE) process; perform analysis to support business decisions, signoff, and implementation

Monitor emerging product experience, manage actuarial assumptions and identifying any new risks

Coordinate and lead cross-functional initiatives related to product development and reporting

May Oversee Life and/or Annuity product illustrations; provide support to Customer Service on exemptions and escalated requests

Develop relationships with internal and external distribution (sales) stakeholders

Manage projects and stakeholders to promote timely and effective progress on key initiatives

Responsible for designing and pricing of new products

Support Reinsurance efforts for risk sharing, analysis of existing and potential treaties, developing relationships with counterparts at reinsurers

Support filing of new products

Ensure products are built appropriately in administration system and validating test cases

• Produce, present, and improve monthly business monitoring reporting

• Provide insight and analysis to inforce experience trends

• Oversee monthly crediting rate package and process

• Coordinate with ALM and System on data and result analysis

• Assist in the development and analyze annual Illustration Actuary testing models

• Review special policy illustration requests

• Assist on Product related projects and requests

• Develop management presentations on topics as needed.

Modeling and Forecasting tasks

Build and review model inputs to support financial projection capability

Execute and monitor model projections including troubleshooting model calculations

Analyze model output ensuring accuracy with intended model purpose

Build and maintain tools to assist in result analysis.

Develop management presentations on topics as needed.

_oversee Senior Actuarial Associates, Actuarial Associates and possibly Actuarial Interns on technical model aspects._

Risk and Investments tasks

Update quarterly stress testing results and compare versus risk appetite and limit

Monitoring investment portfolio to ensure compliance with guidelines and limits

Monitor asset and liability duration, report mismatches outside of tolerance

Prepare weekly hedging file, monitor hedge position and results

Where guidelines or limits are breached, recommend alternative remediation plans as needed

Develop management presentations on topics as needed.

Ancillary Responsibilities

Assess reasonableness of reserves as new blocks of business are acquired.

Assess product features and determine product management strategies as new blocks of business are acquired.

Build efficiencies through programming solutions in all aspects of model input and output data manipulation.

Assist in the development and production of the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment.

Assess the impacts of an alternate investment or reinvestment strategy and recommend changes as needed.

Assist in the development of optimization macros and recommend methods to improve hedging and ALM efficiency.

Qualifications Experience

BS in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Finance, Statistics, or related area

FSA designation or near FSA designation

A minimum of 5 years of relevant full-time insurance actuarial experience is expected.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Strong business and collaboration skills

Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Access, Word, PPT)

Demonstrated ability with Actuarial software is a plus (e.g., AXIS, MG-ALFA, ARCVal)

Mandatory for a Modeling role

AXIS skills strongly preferred for Pricing & Product Development role

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Flexible can-do attitude, willing to help out with all types of tasks in an ever-changing environment

• Passion to learn new things and design new solutions

• Work both independently and as part of a team

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