Technical Pricing Actuary

Legal & General supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.

Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.

We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.

Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers. 

We’re recruiting for a Technical Pricing Actuary to join our Workplace Savings Business. If you are a nearly/newly qualified actuary who enjoys project-based work and has both a technical mindset and a commercial outlook, then this might just be the role for you.

In this role you will support the Lead Technical Pricing Actuary in the continuous development of the Workplace pricing ecosystem, alongside providing subject matter expertise on illustrations and commercials to the wider Workplace and Retail Savings teams.

What you'll be doing:

• Supporting the continuous development of the technical pricing ecosystem, including assumptions, model code changes and testing. Which will include new features and functionality to support; regulatory, business and commercial changes/opportunities for both generic and bespoke pricing.
• Leading on recommendations for model updates and supporting the pricing team to implement these updates efficiently and effectively. 
• Supporting the delivery of fund launches and updates to new and existing funds (both growth rates and charges) which are aligned with product and client driven demand.
• Acting as a subject matter expert in the calculation and methodology used for member illustrations, by providing accurate and rapid technical responses and insight into illustration queries from either customers or business users with sufficient detail and clarity.
• Assisting with the updating of internal reports and policies. Some of these policies include internal requirements to document and update Excel (including VBA) and testing spreadsheets to comply with the internal model dictionaries and Pricing and Computing Standards.
• Supporting commercial assessments/insights on strategic initiatives, developments, rollouts and the ongoing maintenance of Workplace Savings and Retail Savings, including data insights.
• Utilising commercial insights for the identification and improvement of data richness as well as trend analysis for price optimisation and operational improvements for the Workplace Savings Operational Pricing team.
• Providing general and strategic actuarial insight and oversight to the Operational Pricing team, Lead Technical Pricing Actuary, Commercial Director and Workplace Pension and Retail Savings businesses, including change projects and supporting with the assessment of ad-hoc commercial decisions.

Who we’re looking for:

• Nearly/Newly Qualified Actuary
• Previous pricing experience would be highly advantageous, but is not essential
• Ability to think and act strategically and commercially
• Ability to apply actuarial techniques, principles and methods to solve complex problems
• Ability to oversee complex actuarial calculations and interpret results for others, and challenge the validation and analysis of data when appropriate
• Strong process management skills with the ability to influence peers/stakeholders
• Knowledge of the theory and practice of assumption setting methodologies and the impacts that these have on reported results
• An understanding of UK accounting standards for statutory, Solvency II and IFRS reporting

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• Competitive Salary
• Generous pension contribution - L&G match any personal contributions up to 5% and provide a further contribution of 6%, increasing by 1% each April until a further 10% is provided on top of any matching contributions
• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance
• Income protection
• 25 days holiday, plus public holidays. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday 
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online  
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart 

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.