Who are Just?

We’re a FTSE 250 Financial Services company who specialise in retirement solutions and right now, our world is moving pretty quickly. With the defined benefit buy in / buy out space growing each year, Just continues to annually grow its business by over £4bn of assets.

We are a purpose driven company with compelling and credible goals. Quite simply, we help people achieve a better later life. We achieve this by providing competitive and innovative products, services, financial advice and guidance to help our customers achieve security, certainty and provide them with peace of mind in retirement.

That’s who we are. We’re a company on a mission: to become a beacon for the entire retirement industry. Because we believe everyone deserves a fair, secure, and fulfilling retirement.

Purpose

We are currently looking for someone to join our expanding Investment Team as a Senior Investment Actuarial Analyst.   In this role you will support the Investment Team on a range of technical subjects.  In particular we are a key enabler to support the objectives of the wider Investment team.

This is an exciting role that carries a high degree of responsibility and independence as you will provide technical support to the Chief Investment Officer and the wider Investments team to facilitate delivery on a wide variety of investment initiatives.

Skills and experiences required for this role :

• Progress towards actuarial qualification is essential. 
• Relevant technical skills is essential. 
• A number of years relevant experiences within Financial Services, Asset Management, Insurance Investment or Investment Consulting.
• Working knowledge of asset allocation and portfolio construction. Fundamental investing knowledge, with the ability and interest to develop further, and investment function knowledge of a (life) assurer is essential.
• Strong IT skills, preferably with asset modelling experience and/or Python knowledge, with the ability to think independently and hit the ground running by proposing and implementing solutions.
• Excellent verbal, written communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to present investment matters in a clear and concise manner.
• Excellent team-working skills and capability to maintain relationship within internal stakeholders and develop relationship with external parties.
• Strong results focus, with ability to work efficiently and grasp concepts that are not straightforward; yet seek guidance where necessary.
• This role will contribute to ensuring that the Group’s investments are profitable, capital efficient and securely managed, ensuring investment initiatives undertaken are implemented robustly and maintaining effective day-to-day investment operations.
• Job Role Accountabilities 
• Support senior members of the Investment Technical and Actuarial Team to deliver team goals.

The key technically oriented tasks include:

• Contributing to the annual and quarterly new business pricing exercises. This includes setting the investment yield curves for in payment and deferred payment new business.
• Monitor investment activity versus business plan and other needs.
• Working with the ALM team, maintain a framework for assessing the ALM impact of investments.
• Generally provide technical underpinning for Solvency 2 (Solvency Capital Requirement and Fundamental Spread), IFRS balance sheet and liquidity impacts of investment activity.
• Maintain and develop capital and balance sheet optimisation tools to manage the inflow of assets and liabilities in a capital efficient manner giving considerations to medium term investment strategy, cashflow matching, short and long term liquidity and large transactions whether asset or liability side, including pre-investment of anticipated DB schemes. 
• Maintain and develop tools used to price new assets acquired. 
• Maintain and develop tools used for risk management under different reporting metrics to support Group Short and long term risk management strategies. 
• Maintain tools that support our assessment of asset eligibility.
• Produce/enhance MI and analysis capabilities of the Investment team.
• In general provide support for investment projects of which there are always a few in train at any point in time.

Examples of Key Activities

• Liaise with the ALM team to optimise the cash flow matching and broader MAP considerations from new investment flows and existing portfolio.
• Liaise within the wider Investment Team on understanding modelling and MI needs and lead the development of this. 
• Liaise within Investment Strategy and the wider Business on assumptions and methodology for the investment components of new business pricing assumptions.
• Engage with Treasury/Finance on strategic liquidity and collateral management matters.
• Provide Investment team support for the DB business.
• Prepare papers for STILF, MAC and Credit Committee forums/committees. 

Why Just?

We are committed to building a more sustainable business and have publicly committed to reduce our scope 3 emissions to Net Zero by 2050 and our scope 1 and 2 emissions to Net Zero by 2025. We’ve made good progress so far and encourage our people to make small and meaningful changes in their everyday lives, so that we can protect our planet for future generations.

Diversity, Equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority for Just as part of our overall strategy and ensuring all of our people feel proud to work at Just. We have joined a number of initiatives including the Race at Work Charter, designed to improve outcomes for employees from underrepresented backgrounds. We also run a Reciprocal Mentoring scheme for employees from a BAME background, those with a disability and those who identify as LGBTQ+. There are multiple employee network groups, which champion issues including race, gender, social mobility and neurodiversity.

What’s clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing and most importantly - each other.