Job Description
Assistant Director Actuarial Programmer - Edinburgh - 21920BR
Moody’s Analytics - Insurance & Pensions OU (IP OU)
Engineering & Technology - Software Engineering
Regular - Experienced Hire
Moody's (NYSE: MCO) is a global integrated risk assessment firm that empowers organizations to make better decisions. Our data, analytical solutions and insights help decision-makers identify opportunities and manage the risks of doing business with others. We believe that greater transparency, more informed decisions, and fair access to information open the door to shared progress. With over 11,000 employees in more than 40 countries, Moody's combines international presence with local expertise and over a century of experience in financial markets. Learn more at moodys.com .
Moody’s Analytics provides financial intelligence and analytical tools supporting our clients’ growth, efficiency and risk management objectives. The combination of our unparalleled expertise in risk, expansive information resources, and innovative application of technology, helps today’s business leaders confidently navigate an evolving marketplace.
Department
Our team’s approach stands out from our competitors. We take our expertise and find ways to package it into a product which offers our customers standardized solutions. The core of our business today is delivering actuarial modelling to insurers. We provide timely insight with control and consistency, enabling effective decision-making, and reducing operational risk and cost. Our diverse team of actuaries, software engineers and product managers are committed to maintaining high-quality customer engagement.
Job Description
The Assistant Director - Actuarial Programmer will work closely with other actuaries and actuarial programmers and will collaborate with our client support, system design and marketing professionals. They will design and implement new features for AXIS and solve actuarial issues posed by our clients. At this level, the actuarial programmers are working on intermediate to complex code and designing module specific features.Primary Responsibilities
- Interpret business requirements for features related to specific AXIS modules.
- Provide feedback on client requirements from a technical perspective
- Analyze and implement solutions and program new features in AXIS
- Design and implement various features that have wide implication and scope
- Investigate and find the root cause for bugs reported by clients
- Provide client support for end users.
- Ensure compliance with coding standards.
- Review code of less senior team members, provide guidance from technical perspective.
Other Responsibilities
- Specialize and develop expertise in at least one area of actuarial practice.
- Participate in Interest Groups and Working Groups.
- Train junior actuarial programmers
- Other duties as assigned. to complex code and designing module specific features.
Qualifications
- A good first degree in a numerical discipline, for example: math's, physics, actuarial science or finance.
- Proven experience of actuarial programming experience
- Qualified or nearly-qualified Actuary
- Significant experience with object oriented design & development, C++ required.
- Expert in development tools such as Visual Studio.
- Strong analytical & technical skills – excellent research capabilities.
- Self-motivated.
- Good communications skills.
- Ability to lead a stream, focusing on the function rather than line management
- Ability to communicate technical information to both technical and not technical audiences
Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody’s Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.