Actuary (FSA)

(Reference code: 0005BI) Status: Full Time, Employee Location: Northbrook, IL 60062 Job Category: Accounting/Finance/Insurance Career Level:Experienced (Non-Manager) Education Level: Bachelor's Degree Job Description: The Allstate Corporation is the nation’s largest publicly held personal lines insurer. A Fortune 100 company, with $156 billion in assets, Allstate sells 13 major lines of insurance, including auto, property, life and commercial. Allstate also offers retirement and investment products and banking services. Allstate is widely known through the “You’re In Good Hands With Allstate®” slogan. Allstate was founded in 1931 and became a publicly traded company in 1993.Allstate Financial is looking to add to its world class team of actuaries. Allstate Financial (AF) is a company of advanced technology, innovative products, and unlimited opportunity. Our current asset base of roughly $85 billion dollars is the result of a strong track record of growth. AF is meeting the protection and retirement needs of our customers through a well-diversified suite of product and service offerings. Examples of product offerings include annuities, universal and term life insurance, mutual funds, variable life insurance, and institutional investment products. These products are sold through approximately 50,000 licensed professionals including independent and captive insurance agents, Allstate personal financial representatives, brokers, banks, and financial advisors.   We are part of the Allstate Insurance Corporation.  Our purpose is to help people realize their hopes and dreams through products and services designed to protect them from life’s uncertainties and to prepare them for the future.  Our strategic vision is to reinvent protection and retirement for the consumer. Why Allstate? We recruit and retain world class actuaries because of the unique and challenging work, strong actuarial environment and significant growth opportunities for top contributors.  After achieving certain well defined goals, our actuaries have the flexibility to choose a management or more technical individual contributor career track.  At Allstate, teamwork is essential but the individual career path is up to you. Team work.  The best actuaries understand that once the exams are completed, the fastest way to advance your career is by surrounding yourself with brilliant people in an environment that encourages innovation. That’s what you’ll see bright, innovative and engaged actuaries here at Allstate. Allstate Financial values actuaries and looks to them to fill key technical and leadership positions.  Case in point, our CEO is an actuary! Our actuaries are guaranteed significant opportunities for creative design and innovative thinking. Allstate Financial is committed to attracting, motivating and retaining the best actuaries by providing market-competitive and performance-based total compensation programs (base salary + short-term cash incentives, as well as equity). Allstate Financial is committed to rewarding our high-potential actuaries that show strong technical depth and/or leadership ability.  They are rewarded with key positions within the company, as well as with compensation programs that ensure a strong connection between pay and performance. FSA’s at Allstate are encouraged to rotate to new positions every few years to broaden their experience, learn the big picture, and prepare for more challenging roles to come!DESCRIPTION AND SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITIES:As the manager of the life insurance modeling team, your three key responsibilities are to: Lead, inspire, coach and develop your team of three actuarial students. Deliver modeling results to the modeling senior manager for: the actuarial opinion and memorandum; risk-based-capital testing; GAAP deferred acquisition cost unlocks; strategic and operational plan; portfolio durations and convexities. Manage the development of the life insurance models.  This includes: adding new model capabilities; validation and documentation review; assisting with the build-out of FAS 157 fair values, embedded values, and economic capital; promoting a SOX-like modeling environment; modeling platform conversions.QUALIFICATIONS (EXPERIENCE, EDUCATION AND PERSONAL TRAITS REQUIRED) FSA with at least 5 years of life insurance experience, preferable in universal life, variable universal life, term, and traditional life insurance. Proven organizational skills including excellent time management and the ability to handle multiple concurrent assignments. Strong people management and interpersonal skills in order to work well as a manager and in a team environment Excellent written and verbal communications to interact with a wide variety of internal and external contacts Proven analytical skills, with strong detail orientation. Proficient with Microsoft applications, and some programming (C++, Visual Basic, Basic) knowledge preferred. Direct experience with actuarial modeling software such as MoSes or TAS is helpful. Unquestionable integrity, ethics and moral character. Thrive on change and continuous improvement. Ability and desire to evolve leadership responsibilities.APPLY:Allstate is hiring immediately. If you live out of the area and are chosen for an interview, Allstate will arrange transportation to and from Chicago, overnight if necessary.  For those that are chosen for hire, relocation packages are also available.  To apply, simply click on the link below or contact our Actuarial Recruiting Team Lead, Meredith Layton at Mlay2@allstate.com .