#252 Mercer – Senior Manager – Annuity Placement, Investment Solutions
Mercer
Full-Time
Gurugram
Posted 2 months ago
Responsibilities :
- Analyze pricing to provide unique solutions and support strategy for annuity buyouts. Determine how to show breakdown of accounts to clients and leverage internal resources to execute.
- Create decks, coordinate meetings, respond to questions from insurers, liaise with actuarial team to gather plan and participant data, lead work streams and ensure the process is executed in a timely manner.
- Facilitate the preparation of insurance market due diligence material to support our consulting process around the Department of Labor guidelines for annuity buyout transactions in compliance with interpretive bulletin 95-1
- Consultant on 5-7 clients at a given time; performing modeling, running reports, preparing decks on pension risk transfer and journey planning projects
- Work with spreadsheets and various modeling tools to produce detailed numerical analysis of the client’s risk profile and the impact of risk on key financial metrics
- As needed, provide ad hoc support on new business pursuits and proposals
- Understand strategy leading up to the annuity placement project, assisting colleagues to identify areas of constraints, solving problems and doing analysis to help support client deliverable
Requirements :
- Minimum Bachelor degree in mathematics, economics, finance or other business-related areas with strong quantitative and analytical course content or direct relevant experience.
- Minimum 2-3 years of experience within an insurance company, financial strategy, investment, and/or actuarial consulting environment
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Overall good technical skills including proficiency in Microsoft Office, with a high proficiency in Excel
- Active pursuit of Actuarial and/or CFA designations a plus
- Familiarity with investment principles and actuarial calculations
- Previous experience in the insurance or group annuity market is a plus
- Self-motivation and an ability to work well in a highly collaborative team environment
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to multitask, manage multiple priorities and work in a rapidly changing and dynamic environment
- Willingness to obtain Life, Accident & Health Insurance licensing (if applicable)