Lead, Actuarial Modeling, Variable Annuity Hedging

3 months ago

Toronto, Canada Manulife Full time

We are a leading financial services provider committed to making decisions easier and lives better for our customers and colleagues around the world. From our environmental initiatives to our community investments, we lead with values throughout our business. To help us stand out, we help you step up, because when colleagues are healthy, respected and meaningfully challenged, we all thrive. Discover how you can grow your career, make impact and drive real change with our Winning Team today.

**Working Arrangement**

Hybrid

**The opportunity**

The Variable Annuity Hedging (VAH) team, within the General Account Investment Division, is responsible for establishing and managing hedging programs at Manulife Financial. The program currently manages both the company’s balance sheet equity risk through the Macro program and the market risks associated with variable annuity (VA) and indexed universal life (IUL) products.

There are two sub-groups within Variable Annuity Hedging: Strategy and Actuarial Modeling. This position is within the Actuarial Modeling group. The role provides the opportunity to develop a strong understanding of our hedging programs and various aspects of VA and IUL, such as product features, hedging strategies, financial reporting, capital and modelling. It also provides the opportunity to learn about financial hedging and the derivatives market, as well as interact with many corporate areas and business units.

**Responsibilities**
- Become an expert user of our hedging systems. Test and implement improvements to existing hedging models and daily hedging operations.
- Maintain PathWise integration in Hedging system through Python scripting.
- Review hedging liability grid results and assist with performance attribution.
- Support the IUL hedge cycle to trigger the runs to calculate the hedge exposures and analyze the monthly hedge exposure movements.
- Partner with key stakeholders to support the migration of the IUL admin system and hedge exposure calculator to new platforms.
- Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to expand the scope of IUL hedging operation to other geographies and product lines.
- Work with the VAH Strategy and IT teams to enhance the database infrastructure and ensure system readiness for new product features and offerings.
- Cooperate with multiple stakeholders to build the in-house IUL hedge exposure calculator to support the IUL dynamic hedging initiative.
- Work with VAH Strategy Team to develop and quantify impacts of new hedging strategies.
- Interact with Group Finance Actuarial, Capital, Risk Oversight, and divisional modelling and valuation teams to validate and explain hedging results.
- Update and propose changes to the equity option and swaption calibration methods and assumptions.
- Recommend hedging decisions using analysis, data and modelling.
- Respond effectively to time sensitive requests for information from Management.Support regular stress testing and reporting of liabilities and Greeks.

**What motivates you?**
- You obsess about customers, listen, engage and act for their benefit.
- You think big, with curiosity to discover ways to use your agile approach and enable business outcomes.
- You thrive in teams and enjoy getting things done together.
- You take ownership and build solutions, focusing on what matters.
- You do what is right, work with integrity and speak up.You share your humanity, helping us build a diverse and inclusive work environment for everyone.

**What we are looking for**
- FSA or equivalent; OR graduate degree in a quantitative field
- Actuarial experience or knowledge of actuarial concepts
- Minimum 7-10 years of experience in the financial industry
- Strong actuarial or quant, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Process
- and result-oriented with strong attention to details
- Proactive and able to work both independently and with teams
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to deal with multiple stakeholders from different backgrounds at the same time.
- Organized and able to manage complex processes
- Basic knowledge of capital market instruments including futures, swaps, options and swaptions would be helpful
- Knowledge of Python or a similar programming languageStochastic modelling and quantitative modelling knowledge are assets

**What can we offer you?**
- A competitive salary and benefits packages.
- A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills.
- A focus on growing your career path with us.
- Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance.Professional development and leadership opportunities.

**Our commitment to you**
- Values-first culture
We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together.
- Boundless opportunity
We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career.
- Continuous innovation
We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services.
- Delivering the promise of Diversity

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