CORPORATE VICE PRESIDENT & ACTUARY - Regulatory, ALM & Reinsurance

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GBS2021

Core Deliverables and Responsibilities

• Complete annual cash-flow testing and actuarial opinion, and coordinate all actuarial annual statement deliverables
• Perform analysis to support updates to statutory valuation assumptions which minimize capital strain while ensuring reserve adequacy and compliance
• Perform quarterly portfolio segmentation analysis to ensure appropriate asset / liability matching and recommend valuation discount rates
• Develop reserve projections across GAAP, statutory and tax bases to support capital plan and surplus / dividend projections
• Oversee Reserving team’s compliance and control structure – Sarbanes-Oxley / Model Audit Rule, balance sheet inventory, model governance, peer reviews, best practices, etc.
• Manage day-to-day reinsurance operations, including treaty renewal process, broker and reinsurer relationships, maintenance of reinsurance contract inventory, and commutations of run-out treaties
• Ensure reinsurance financials are accurately calculated and recorded, and monitor experience of treaties

Stretch Deliverables / Differentiators

• Streamline / enhance processes to complete core deliverables
• Improve communication and collaboration on tasks involving multiple teams (e.g. annual statement)
• Proposing enhancements to controls and best practices to ensure optimal compliance and governance
• Better partner with corporate investment area to drive optimal investment strategies and asset liability management

Competencies Utilized and Developed

• Technical skills
  • Various different modeling projects (in Excel, Access, SQL), including projection of a full model office
• Analytical skills
  • Reviewing asset and liability characteristics to develop optimal asset allocation
  • Developing and reviewing key metrics to support recommendations for appropriate statutory valuation assumptions
• Communication skills
  • Results of cash-flow testing and recommended changes to statutory valuation assumptions must be presented to GBS CFO and Corporate Actuarial.
  • Various modeling tasks require inputs from several different areas, demanding clear communication to ensure consistency and timeliness
• Business knowledge
  • Develop a strong knowledge of key financial statements – income statement and balance sheet – and all aspects of the P&L by developing full end-to-end financial projections.
  • Gain an understanding of all valuation bases (GAAP, statutory, tax) and all Group products (Disability, Life, Accident, Specialty, Voluntary).
• Leadership
  • Coordinate a number of cross-functional projects requiring project management
  • Encourage team members to partner with other areas by providing actionable insights and drive change

Business Partners

• Other Reserving teams
• Corporate Finance, Accounting and Actuarial
• Accounting
• External auditors, PwC (Accounting and Actuarial)
• Cigna Investment Management

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Job Requisition ID: 84784