Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location: Gloucester

Job ref: 204073

About the role

Ecclesiastical Insurance, who are proudly part of Benefact Group are looking for a Graduate Actuarial Analyst to join our Gloucester office.

As a Graduate Actuarial Analyst you will play an important role in supporting the Group Investments Team by developing, testing and using the internal model for modelling of market risk; and developing analysis and preparing management information to inform the Group’s investment strategy and risk management.

The role offers a competitive Actuarial Study Support package.

Why join us?

Join a collaborative and inclusive culture that’s committed to making a difference and building a more sustainable future. Ranked amongst the UK's top 50 Best Large Companies to Work For in 2024, we offer fantastic career and development opportunities within a rapidly growing, innovative Group—where all profits go to charity and good causes.

What you'll be doing 

• Undertaking core actuarial analysis and reporting, producing accurate work within set deadlines.
• Developing and producing core management and risk reporting in respect of the Group’s investment portfolio
• Contributing to Group investment and market risk projects, developing & applying appropriate methodologies.
• Undertaking analyses as directed to provide impactful insights into relevant aspects of the Groups investments and wider business.
• Communicating effectively both within the actuarial department and across the wider business.
• Pro-actively learning and applying actuarial concepts and methodologies and improving industry and investment knowledge.
• Keeping abreast of current and emerging economic trends, actuarial technical standards and best practice.
• Carrying out relevant data gathering/validation exercises to meet the on-going business needs

What you'll need to have

• Degree or equivalent in statistics, actuarial studies, computing, mathematics
• Excellent analytical & mathematical skills
• Effective communication skills, with proven ability to build effective relationships.
• Strong IT skills
• A track record of success and achievement in education.

What makes you stand out

• Work/placement experience undertaking work with an analytical focus
• Exemptions or passes in actuarial exams are beneficial although not essential.

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
  
• Hybrid working
  
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
  
• Generous annual bonus scheme between 6% and 24%
  
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
  
• An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
  
• £200 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
  
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
  
• Employee Assistance Programme
  
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications
• Access to virtual GP
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

About us

Ecclesiastical Insurance offer insurance with award-winning service across a broad range of specialisms, including faith, charity, heritage, education, art and private client, real estate and schemes, across Ireland, Canada and the UK.

As a business, we’ve been trusted to protect some of the UK’s best-loved and most iconic buildings for over a century, and we’re not standing still. We’re a forward thinking, energetic organisation entering new markets, with an ambition to double our size, because when we grow, we give back more.

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.

*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26