Overview:

Responsible for independently and objectively analyzing, forecasting and reporting financial results for Northwestern Mutual and subsidiaries. Highly visible position that has interactions with executive officers, business leaders and finance leaders and requires strong business partnerships as analyses, insights and recommendations are presented, including negotiating with senior leaders across the business to influence decisions making. Accountable for highly complex actuarial and/or quantitative analyses and techniques used in corporate projections.
 

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Engage with product, sales, investments, corporate strategy and actuarial departments to develop assumptions/inputs, prepare financial projections/models, and present results to functional leadership and/or corporate committees including SLT.
• Lead strategic modeling, scenario planning, and analysis to support data-driven decisions, and bring new approaches or techniques to solve problems that have a broad impact on the business.
• Provide technical guidance for and manage a team of actuaries and/or non-actuaries involved in activities such as corporate planning, forecasting and variance analysis for the enterprise.
• Drives accountability by setting, monitoring and reporting targets/outcomes related to key performance indicators, which may include financial, operational, or other metrics aligned with the company’s financial and strategic goals.
• Provide leadership and direction across the Corporate Finance department.

Team Leadership:

• Build and mentor a high-performing team focused on transformation and business planning.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and accountability.
• Provide leadership and guidance to teams to ensure timely and successful completion of responsibilities.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in actuarial science or a related field or equivalent education and experience.
• Fellow of the Society of Actuaries compliant on continuing professional development, and with appropriate experience to issue necessary Statements of Actuarial Opinion.
• Twelve or more years of significant Actuarial experience.
• Recognized thought leader in one or more actuarial subjects.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills with emphasis on communicating diverse and complex actuarial topics to a wide variety of internal stakeholders.
• Ability to build rapport and influence decisions at all levels of management.
• Superior intellectual agility, analytical and problem-solving abilities and well-developed negotiating skills.
• Ability to lead large interdepartmental projects
• Ability to manage a team of actuaries and non-actuaries.
• Extensive knowledge of company, industry and regulatory practices and procedures.

Compensation Range:

$167,300.00

Pay Range - End:

$310,700.00

235 - Structure 110: 184,030.00 USD - 341,770.00 USD

235 - Structure 115: 192,430.00 USD - 357,370.00 USD

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