At AIA we’ve started an exciting movement to create a healthier, more sustainable future for everyone.

It’s about finding new ways to not only better people's lives, but to better the communities and environments we live in. And we build on this every day with our ambition to engage one billion people to live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives by 2030.

And to get there, we need leaders with the courage, clarity and humanity to inspire, guide and support their teams to thrive every day - in the work they do and the life they live. Our leaders always have and will play a vital part in our journey to help more people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives, build healthier societies and cultivate healthier environments that better everyone.

If you sound like that leader, read on.  

About the Role

Oversee all investment analytics-related activities and deliver enterprise-wide change initiatives for the Group CIO. Spearhead positive change campaigns pertaining to the optimization of existing analytics policies directly resulting in performance improvement across the businesses. Operate as leader, manager, and strategic planner, collaborating closely with Operations, Finance, Actuarial and Risk to operationalise ICU analytics initiatives.

The Head of Analytics also endeavors to create new data-driven approaches for the purpose of generating investment decision insights through data analytics, information visualization, and addressing unanswered business issues in a proactive manner. And as such is tasked with the management and long-term prioritization of the business’s overall analytical needs and opportunities.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Spearhead and oversee the continued development and implementation of next generation investment analytics, risk frameworks and processes for AIA group wide, leveraging in-house and vendor tools and capabilities

• Collaborating with partner teams to enhance existing analytics and risk architecture to support in-depth investment and risk analytics whilst striving for a consistent, coherent and nimble analytics ecosystem

• Drive performance of analytics solutions to impact overall business results while keeping costs in check and ensuring the department remains within the planned budget

• Oversee and manage digital transformations of existing manual analytic workstreams encompassing systems / technology, processes, people and data                             

• Responsible for setting the team vision and culture and championing for the use of data in making key business decisions

• Lead and manage the analytics team, and play a mentorship role to key analytics personnel, constantly honing their professional skills, and preparing them for the occupation of his position in future 

Minimum Job Requirements:

• Education – Masters

• Experience – 20+ years

• Experience in managerial position, coaching and leading a team of highly educated people 

• Experience in Asset-Liability Management, Derivatives and multi-asset investment strategies

• Strong analytical skills with a sound understanding of financial mathematics and statistics; familiarity with econometrics

• Proficiency in Python & R, and/or other data analysis and programming languages. Proficiency in Power BI, Tableau, and/or other data visualization packages

• Certifications/licenses – CFA or similar an advantage

• Special skills – Quantitative experience a must – statistics / stochastic modelling / quantitative analytics

Build a career with us as we help our customers and the community live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives.

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