Position Summary:

This position will provide leadership to our Enterprise Risk Management Actuarial function.  This will include leading a dynamic and highly visible enterprise team as well as strategic leadership for actuarial financial risks for Securian. Responsibilities will include leading and developing a team of actuarial leaders and/or professionals and providing strategic and thought leadership to all Securian's ERM functions, including leading/coordinating FRC and chairing risk governance committees.  

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

Leads staff to achieve functional, department and enterprise objectives:

• Accountable for performance, results, and budget of ERM Actuarial function  

• Actively and effectively leads a team of actuarial professionals and managers, providing oversight, guidance, and decision-making to drive functional initiatives  

• Works with team members to understand short and long-term career objectives by providing frequent, actionable feedback to support their ongoing career development  

Directs Securian Financials’ financial risk management activities, including capital management: 

• Partners with stakeholders and executive leadership to determine financial risk and capital management priorities and translates to actionable plans; oversees execution   

• Oversees insurance risk management for Securian, including Mortality, Longevity, Morbidity, and Policyholder Behavior, ensuring strong partnership with Solutions Groups and Shared Services to identify, measure, and effectively manage risk exposures  

• Oversees Asset Liability Management activities for Securian, providing strategic direction and oversight    

• Directs Embedded Value and Economic Capital programs and activities; ensuring value-add deliverables   

• Provides strategic thought leadership towards enterprise capital management strategy, driving towards a long-term strategic capital management framework  

• Directs team on capital management activities including, but not limited to, capital forecasting, stress testing, capital allocation, and capital management strategies  

• Key communicator and influencer with Leadership Council and ELT on capital position, targets and expectations, ensuring broad organizational alignment on capital strategy  

Communicates ERM positions and strategies:  

• Coordinates Securian’s Financial Risk Committee, identifying topics, coordinating preparation, and ensuring timely and effective discussion of most relevant financial risk topics for the organization  

• Key communicator of ERM topics, including presentations to Financial Risk Committee, Risk Council, and others as identified.  

• Guides team to define and execute communication strategies that maintain organizational awareness of ERM program objectives and current risk positions  

• Builds and maintains relationships with Leadership Council and ELT members, ensuring effective two-way communication and engagement on ERM topics  

• Consults with, influences, and informs solution groups and shared solutions on ERM related topics, advocating for decisions in alignment with our ERM objectives  

• Ensures strong partnership with FP&A function to integrate risk management metrics and decision-making into Goals & Plans and other financial planning tools.  

Oversees Securian’s ERM Governance framework and ORSA process:  

• Directs Securian’s Own Risk & Solvency Assessment (ORSA) process and development of Securian’s ORSA and Enterprise Risk reports, including communication with Securian’s Risk Council, Board of Directors, and state regulators  

• Provides oversight to ERM Governance Group framework, ensuring appropriate coverage of critical risk topics, appropriate scoping of responsibilities, and effectiveness of committees to support our ERM objectives  

• Guides team in oversight of Risk Tolerance framework ensuring risk tolerances align to Securian’s Risk Appetite and support the long-term objectives of the organization  

• Influences development and management of Risk Appetite statement  

• Provides leadership towards Securian’s ERM Reporting processes, ensuring timely and relevant communication of Securian’s risk positions to the Board, Risk Council, and other internal stakeholders.   

• Oversees risk identification and assessment processes for Securian’s subsidiaries and affiliates, facilitating connections with Securian’s ERM Governance framework.   

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of leadership experience managing direct reports

• FSA designation

• Demonstrated ability to build successful teams, drive results, engage executive leadership, and influence cross-organizational decision-makers to achieve strategic objectives

• Proven ability to provide strategic thought leadership, build effective relationships, and communicate complex topics to executive leadership, the Board of Directors/Risk Council, and external stakeholders 

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of substantive enterprise risk management experience

• Functional subject matter expertise in financial risk management, including insurance risk, asset-liability management, and capital management

• Familiarity with insurance industry regulations, including the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment 

• Experience working in the financial services industry

Securian Financial believes in hybrid work as an integral part of our culture. Associates get the benefit of working both virtually and in our offices. If you’re in a commutable distance (90 minutes) you’ll join us 2-3 days each week in our offices to collaborate and build relationships. Our policy allows flexibility for the reality of business and personal schedules. When working in our offices at least two days per week isn’t feasible (vacations, illness, travel, etc.), an eight day per month standard is an option.

Physical Job Requirements:

Ability to utilize the keyboard, computer and/or mouse for up to 8 hours per day

Ability to work at least 40 hours per week

Ability to utilize the phone and/or virtual meeting platform for 14 hours per day

The physical job requirements described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of jobs.

For more information regarding Securian’s benefits, please review our Benefits page.

This information is not intended to explain all the provisions of coverage available under these plans. In all cases, the plan document dictates coverage and provisions.

Securian Financial Group, Inc. does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital or familial status, pregnancy, disability, genetic information, political affiliation, veteran status, status in regard to public assistance or any other protected status. If you are a job seeker with a disability and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please contact us by email at Employment@Securian.com, by telephone 651-655-5522 (voice), or 711 (Relay/TTY).

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