Director, Actuarial FP&A

About Us

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests. Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.

Who We Are

We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life. Today, we’re part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what’s important to them. We’re empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good — for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.

What We Do

• World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors
• Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions
• Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities
• Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs

Job Description

This role involves assessing regulatory capital impacts related to the addition of new asset classes, as well as evaluating reinsurance transactions and other strategic initiatives. This role will be heavily involved in budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.

• Interpret, prepare, and present key actuarial and financial information to support informed leadership decision making.
• Provide guidance and advice regarding technical actuarial issues such as pricing rates, modeling methodology, reserving principles and related matters. Focus will be on forward-looking financial outcomes.
• Assess complex transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance arrangements, and other strategic initiatives, offering guidance as needed.
• Collaborate with leaders from business units and other departments to provide meaningful management reports, support capital planning, and perform performance analysis. This involves linking product-level actuarial results to broader FP&A narratives at the enterprise level.
• Act as a trusted partner to Actuarial, Risk, ALM, Investments, Tax, and Finance Transformation teams to deliver integrated financial view.
• Drive key projects to completion by providing leadership and direction to individuals both inside and outside the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics or related field, and 10 years of related actuarial experience, or Master’s degree in a listed discipline and 8 years of experience.
• FSA and American Academy of Actuaries membership.
• Demonstrate high quality leadership, judgment, organization and prioritization skills.
• Effectively communicate, both verbally and in writing, advanced mathematical and analytical concepts to various audiences.
• Solid understanding of risk/return profiles of various assets.

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive experience in the insurance industry, knowledge of regulatory frameworks and thorough understanding of financial markets.
• Proven experience in (setting up) financial models that are used in decision making processes.
• Experience in assessing and analyzing business performance, challenging business strategies, ability to present and interpret the results of the assessment, ability to conduct complex financial research autonomously.