Job Description
Job Type: Permanent
Location - Dublin
At Phoenix Group, we’ve built a hugely successful, well respected and rapidly developing business by putting our people first. We believe attracting, developing, motivating and inspiring exceptional people benefits our customers, our shareholders and ultimately, our performance. We strive to be the best place anyone has ever worked. Join us and you can look forward to challenging and rewarding work, alongside highly skilled colleagues with world class expertise.
We’re currently recruiting for a Finance and Actuarial Operations Manager to join our Finance and Actuarial Operations team. This is a key role in driving operational excellence, managing the end-to-end operating model and a great opportunity for the right candidate.
Key Responsibilities
- To support the implementation of the function vision and its objectives in line with the European strategy.
- Key role in developing effective end-to-end Finance Operating Model, including the development and maintenance of the overall view of Finance and Actuarial processes and technology roadmap.
- Support oversight of all Finance and Actuarial change projects, ensuring that change governance framework and operational readiness activities are adhered to.
- Partner with other teams to develop and support efficient reporting cycles supporting financial control and reporting activities.
- Take active role in management of outsourced services and ensure timely and accurate information is available to ensure robust control structures.
- Ensure compliance with the risk framework, policies and standards.
- Promote a continuous performance improvement culture, encouraging innovation and growth.
- Develop and manage cross-divisional internal relationships to create a strong network to support the achievement of business objectives.
- Managing priorities and planning the most effective use of resource when there are conflicting demands on resource.
What We’re Looking For
- Ensuring a continually high quality output to ensure solutions are a good fit for the end user and/or for further input.
- Applying and assimilating external insights to ensure the strategic and operational priorities are appropriate.
- Effectively communicating complex information to a wide group of senior stakeholders against a background of continuous internal and external change.
- Managing change - ensuring improvements are customer driven, taking account of corporate and divisional strategies.
- Managing, motivating and developing a team to ensure they continue to deliver excellence against a background of continual fast paced internal and external change
- Managing the delivery of the team within agreed budget and timelines.
What We Offer
Bring your ‘whole self’, skills and dedication to the Phoenix Group and we’ll recognise your effort, support your development and help to drive your ambition. We’ll ensure you’re rewarded for your contribution with a competitive package that includes an attractive pension, annual bonus potential, private medical insurance, generous holiday entitlement, enhanced maternity and adoption leave and a range of other financial services and lifestyle flexible benefits.
Join us and you join a unique organisation. It’s not just the 14 million policyholders we serve, or the £300 billion of assets we look after. Or that we’re a FTSE 100 company that has been listed as one of the UK's Top Employers for nine years running. It’s our talented, inclusive and diverse workforce that makes us a success. We offer flexible working opportunities ensuring we attract and retain the very best of talent. Find out about more about our people’s stories, our values and our commitment to diversity.
Key Competencies
Building partnerships, networks and relationships.
The ability to be commercially focused at all times.
Clearly and effectively communicates information, ideas, plans, requests and opinions to internal and external stakeholders through a range of channels including written and oral. Ensures alignment with communication guidelines and policies.
Being customer driven in all you do, understanding and meeting the customer’s needs and connecting emotionally with the customer.
- Laws, Regulations and standards
Knowledge of specific regulations, legislation, governance and compliance requirements that impact a role, business area or Standard Life as a whole.
Organises, prioritises and delegates work activities and makes the most efficient use of people to accomplish tasks and objectives.
Efficient and effective deployment of organisational resources to deliver business results. Resources may include financial resources, inventory, people skills, production resources, or information technology (IT).
- Understands Phoenix Group
Understanding relationships within the organisation (and with our partners) and how to get things done at Phoenix Group.
Online Interviews and Onboarding
All our interviews, onboarding and new joiners are now managed remotely. We have in place a strong virtual support network to ensure new colleagues are supported and developed as they navigate their first few months with us
About Us
Phoenix Group is a member of the FTSE 100 index and is the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We specialise in the acquisition and management of Heritage life insurance and pension funds. We’ve businesses in the UK, Germany and Ireland and hold a broad range of both Heritage and Open products split across three key business segments: UK Heritage, UK Open and Europe. Our open business manufactures and underwrites new products and policies to support people saving for their future in areas such as workplace pensions and SIPPs, primary under the Standard Life brand. And we market corporate pension trustee services and manufacture products to be sold under other brands. Did you know Phoenix Life manufactures SunLife’s market leading Guaranteed Over 50’s plan? Find out more about Phoenix Group here.
We value diversity in our workforce and welcome enquiries from everyone.
