Job Description
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Contract type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
We are looking for a qualified commercially minded Actuary to join our Pricing & Trading team within Long Term Savings Commercials. This is an exciting opportunity to apply actuarial expertise to a broad range of financial analysis, pricing, technical work, and business-critical projects. You will use your insight to interpret complex data to provide high-quality recommendations to colleagues across the wider business, deliver timely reporting and to improve processes and controls. This role offers the chance to make a visible impact, work collaboratively with stakeholders, and help shape effective pricing and trading outcomes in a supportive and inclusive environment.
About the role
• Deliver high-quality actuarial analysis, modelling and reporting to support business and financial decision-making.
• Review and interpret complex data, applying sound judgement to produce clear insights and recommendations.
• Support the production of reports and documentation to agreed standards, timescales, and regulatory requirements.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, controls, and documentation to increase efficiency and reduce risk.
• Contribute to projects by providing actuarial expertise, constructive challenge, and clear progress updates.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the department and wider business to explain findings in a clear, accessible way.
About you
• Qualified Actuary with strong technical knowledge and experience applying actuarial concepts in a commercial environment (pricing experience would be beneficial).
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work confidently with complex data and models.
• Can communicate clearly and professionally, adapting your approach for different audiences across the business.
• Highly organised, with strong attention to detail and a focus on quality, governance, and controls.
• Enjoy improving processes and finding practical, innovative ways to enhance accuracy and efficiency.
• Work well both independently and collaboratively, building strong relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Developing and coaching other team members.
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.
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We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Royal London is a purpose-driven mutual. Our Purpose, ‘Protecting today, investing in tomorrow. Together we are mutually responsible’, defines the impact we want to have. It shapes what we do on behalf of our members and customers, financial advisers, our colleagues and the communities in which we operate. Our People Promise is our collective commitment that our workplace will be inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling where all colleagues can thrive and experience a sense of belonging. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
Our inclusive values and people promise are core to who we are and how we work. It’s good for our people, and good for our customers too, because with an inclusive workplace and a diverse workforce we will reflect our members, customers and communities to deliver the best outcomes.
We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across our organisation. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected– whatever their background.
Workplace Initiatives
Program for parents returning to work after Parental Leave? |
No |
Leadership development programmes? |
Yes |
Mentoring programmes? |
Yes |
Coaching programmes? |
Yes |
Employee-led diversity networks? |
Yes |
Internal women’s networking groups? |
Yes |
Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage? |
Yes |
No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary: |
26 weeks (followed by 13 weeks half pay) |
Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary: |
4 weeks |
Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
Gender pay gap reporting information 2022: |
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Mean pay gap: |
35.3% |
Median pay gap: |
33.9% |
Mean bonus gap: |
70.4% |
Median bonus gap: |
48.5% |
Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of women in leadership? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership? |
No |
Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index? |
No |
Graduate Programmes
We have a number of graduate programmes designed to deliver technical experts and future leaders.
Royal London Career Confidence programme
Our hybrid programme focuses on equipping you to feel empowered in your career and supported to explore new opportunities as they arise.
Apprenticeships
We offer a wide range of Apprenticeships that are targeted at both new joiners and existing colleagues.
Inclusion
We promote an inclusive culture at Royal London and have a range of inclusion networks for our colleagues to get involved with.
Our Women's Network is a community that celebrates and supports its members, helps everyone to learn more and inspires all of us to aim higher. Confidence and development are strong themes here and our events focus on three key areas of team working, finance, and wellbeing. There are two sub-groups to the Women’s Network – Women in Technology and our Periods and Menopause Group – focused on actions such as supporting over 20 new Periods and Menopause champions and launching guidance and training for leaders.