Canada Life is hiring a Financial Risk Analyst to play a key role in developing and managing our enterprise-wide financial risk framework. You will provide independent advice to senior management and the Board, while supporting oversight of market, credit, and liquidity risks and investment strategies.
What You'll Do
- Develop market and liquidity risk reports for quarterly risk committees and streamline the reporting process.
- Apply analytics to generate insights specific to financial risks and global capital markets to help inform investment and risk strategy.
- Assist with evaluation of hedging strategies and hedge monitoring for Great-West Lifeco’s product offerings.
- Conduct risk reviews related to current and emerging financial risks, evolving investment and product strategy, proposed acquisitions, and regulatory changes.
- Monitor business activities and external developments that would materially alter the company's risk profile.
- Build strong understanding of internal strategies to measure and manage financial risks to effectively challenge and identify opportunities for enhancements.
- Form strong working relationships with internal stakeholders across our global business.
- Prepare executive and Board-level material to effectively communicate technical concepts.
What We're Looking For
- Undergraduate or Graduate degree in actuarial or other quantitative field.
- Demonstrated progress towards actuarial designation or CFA.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Participates effectively in cross-functional and cross-regional teams.
- Proactive and self-directed with the ability to complete several tasks concurrently.
- Presents complex technical concepts to a range of audiences.
- Superior analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Technically proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of life insurance product offerings, liability cashflow modeling, IFRS 17.
- Knowledge of market and liquidity risk, investments, LICAT, ORSA, and ALM.
- Proficiency in one or more of R, Python, or VBA.
Technical Stack
- Microsoft Office
- R
- Python
- VBA
Team & Environment
You will join the fast-growing and dynamic Financial Risk Management team.
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary range: $65,600.00 - $98,400.00 annually.
- Rapidly develop your problem solving, relationship-building and communication skills.
- Work on challenging and innovative projects in a dynamic, collaborative and fast-growing team.
- Competitive and comprehensive rewards program including bonuses and flexible benefits.
- Opportunities for career advancement, access to industry-leading learning programs and up to $2,000 annually towards education reimbursement.
At Canada Life, we are unified by a shared purpose: to improve the financial, physical and mental well-being of Canadians. Our values are to step up, do the right thing, and deliver – for our customers, communities and each other.
