Actuarial Benefits

**Business Line: Benefits**

**Hours Per Week**:35 (Full-Time)

**Job Duration**: Full-Time, Permanent

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**About the Role**

**What You'll Do**
- Contribute to core health and benefits projects involving the design and management of group medical, dental, life, disability benefits for mid to large, and complex clients, including:

- Benefit plan analysis, design, cost savings and funding strategies
- Vendor procurement, negotiation and optimization
- Incorporation of specialized health management, absence and disability management, pharmacy, data analytics and compliance strategies
- Support flexible benefit calculations and strategies to achieve client objectives
- Partner with Consultants to deliver superior project management on select clients
- Perform financial analyses including:

- Developing pricing and employee contributions strategies
- Modelling plan design alternatives, completing actuarial valuations, and calculating reserves
- Conduct benchmarking studies and other research; provide value added analyses and summaries
- Analyze and compare vendor products, services and contracts
- Build relationships internally and collaborate effectively on cross-functional teams
- Review analytical work, mentor and develop junior level staff
- Contribute to the development of new intellectual capital
- Participate in actuarial valuations of post-retirement benefits, including data validation, setting assumptions, and preparing the valuation report
- Validate and compare premiums for group benefit plans under vendor renewals, quotes or benchmarking exercises with other companies in the industry;
- Analyze financial statements of group insurance plans and review the financial agreement to suit the client needs;
- Analyze cost drivers by reviewing client's cost/utilization data and looking for year-over-year trends or comparisons to external benchmarks using data provided from client's vendor reports
- Act as consultant on a block of small-mid size customers

**What **You Bring**
- 3+ years' experience dealing with the financials of health and benefit plans, ideally gained in a benefit consulting/brokerage firm or health underwriting / actuarial function of an insurance company
- Experience related to actuarial valuation/accounting disclosures
- Bachelors Degree in related area
- ASA or FSIA completed or recent completion of degree in actuarial science or related field
- Demonstrated progress towards an Associate of the Society of Actuaries/Fellow of the Society of Actuaries designation
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and produce quality deliverables on time and within budget
- Flexibility and proven ability to identify and resolve issues
- Strong client service orientation and ability to respond to all communications effectively and in a timely manner
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Self-starter attitude and ability to work individually and as part of a team
- Strong analytical, creative and integrative skills
- Desire to mentor/develop more junior staff
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly in Excel and PowerPoint
- **Life and Health license required within 90 days of joining**

**Who We Are**

NFP is a leading insurance brokerage that provides property and casualty, group benefits, retirement and individual solutions through our licensed subsidiaries and affiliates. We're a 6x Best Places to Work award winner in Insurance, a 5-Star Brokerage award winner from Insurance Business Canada Magazine, and a recognized Elite Agency award winner. We enable client success through the expertise of over 1000 employees based in Canada and more than 6,900 employees with over 310 offices globally.

Since 2021, NFP has been responsible for bringing more than four billion dollars ($4,000,000,000) in premium to the P&C Market.

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**What's In It For You**

NFP's PeopleFirst culture offers a multitude of benefits to employees and is a great place to call home.
- A hybrid environment approach that keeps the best interests of our staff and our clients in mind
- Annual bonus plan for all employees
- Matching RRSP plan of 5% of salary
- Referral Commission Plan
- Generous benefits plan including Health Care Spending Account starting on the first day of employment
- Full support for continuing education & internal opportunities to grow as an insurance professional to advance career
- Reimbursement of license fees and professional membership dues
- A global team of industry leaders focused on employee retention, client growth, industry innovation and collaboration

**Our employees are the foundation of our success.**
- NFP is a big company — a growing, inclusive team of individuals supporting each other's passions and engaging with the community._
- Building a diverse, collaborative and innovative team requires leadership, deliberate action, and ongoing measurement. We actively support the well-being of our employees with benefits and programs driven by recognition, c