Job Description:

Our client, a leading data analytics company, are looking to recruit an enthusiastic individual to help grow their products and modelling assets team, based in London or Glasgow.

The successful candidate with show strong technical acumen and the ability to work collaboratively within a team.

This is a UK based permanent position, with flexible hybrid working.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Able to take initiative on projects and proactively seek guidance from more experienced colleagues
• Collaborative team worker who is confident in mentoring less experienced members of the team
• Extensive experience in data/analytical programming in R
• Extensive experience in problem solving within the data and analytical space
• Experience of working on complex projects to a strict deadline within a commercial environment
• Experience in producing clear documentation of modelling approach and processes followed
• Prior experience of applying longevity analytics in an insurance or pensions context (desirable but not essential)
• Great attention to detail
• Excellent communicator, both to specialist and non-specialist stakeholders
• Open-minded approach to platforms and software to support solutions
• Ability to manage multiple competing deadlines
• Ability to be pragmatic where required
• Creative problem solver willing to leverage existing processes and tools

Core Responsibilities:

• Helping the team to maintain and enhance our existing suite of models and data products
• Helping to design and develop new features or new products and/or apply existing capabilities to new markets
• Building your understanding of the longevity and pension risk transfer domain with the support of our existing team of longevity specialists
• Development and maintenance of longevity modelling and software suite including developing sustainable code for complex algorithms
• Hands-on calibration of longevity models and publications to support our flagship products
• Involvement in a range of innovative growth areas under guidance of product managers
• Throughout your work the application of analytical/statistical knowledge to create commercially focussed solutions will be key.
• You will also engage with the team's evolving modelling suite and digital platform to ensure the solutions you develop have wide application across our client base. This is likely to involve exposure to additional coding languages over time (e.g. Python).
• The role will involve working with internal stakeholders across a range of statistical, actuarial and developer experience to develop your solutions.

They anticipate that your role will grow over time and could follow one of the following paths depending on your skillset and enthusiasms:

• Working towards becoming an area expert on our key products and providing support to external users of those products
• Owning one or more of our key modelling assets including supporting internal users of that asset and providing guidance on functional requirements to our specialist coding teams (which could include a role in developing production level code)

Benefits:

• A highly competitive salary
• Wider Benefits package

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.

Job reference: 15730

To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

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