Phoenix Group

Actuary

• Support the Head of Balance Sheet & ALM Oversight in oversight of the Group’s balance sheets (Group and all UK legal entities) and delivery of the company’s long-term financial strategy , providing Line 2 advice, guidance and challenge to the business.
• Opine on material business decisions and assess whether key risks and trade-offs have been considered appropriately. Line 2 opinions should consider the Group’s strategic objectives and balance commercial opportunities with risk implications.
• Support the development and maintenance of effective and efficient Line 2 risk oversight activities that are proportionate and risk-based, providing clarity to the business on requirements for risk identification, risk management, risk mitigation and performance against Standard Life’s risk appetite.
• Provide technical leadership and act as a positive role model within the team, helping to focus oversight on material risks and transactions; support effective team ways of working; and contribute to a culture of high performance, development and continuous improvement through constructive feedback, coaching and knowledge sharing.
• Influence and constructively challenge senior stakeholder decisions, drawing on internal relationships, cross-functional networks, external market perspectives and relevant experience.
• Work independently to deliver clear, high-quality reports and materials for senior stakeholders.
• The successful candidate should lead by example, contribute positively to team culture and support wider team development through thought leadership, knowledge sharing and staying up to date with latest market practice.

Senior Actuary

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Lead independent operational risk oversight across the Finance function, helping to ensure material risks are identified, understood and managed effectively.
• Act as the key Non-Financial Risk contact for the CFO and Finance Leadership Team, providing risk insight and guidance to support informed decision-making.
• Provide oversight of Finance's risk profile, including adherence to risk appetite and the management of current and emerging risks.
• Support a strong and effective control environment through oversight of Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR/SOX).
• Review the identification, escalation and remediation of control weaknesses, working closely with Finance, Internal Audit and external auditors.
• Provide oversight and risk input on major Finance transformation programmes, assessing governance, risk management and control arrangements.
• Collaborate with specialist risk teams across technology, cyber, change and financial risk to deliver an integrated view of risk.
• Contribute to the continued development of risk frameworks, reporting and tools through the Risk Transformation Programme.
• Deliver clear and meaningful risk reporting to senior leadership, Executive Committees and Board Risk Committees.
• Create an inclusive, collaborative environment that supports the development and success of team members.

Head of Operational Risk Oversight – Finance

Consultant

• Support the end-to-end delivery of the annual compensation cycle, including pay review, annual incentive plan (AIP) and bonus processes.
• Contribute to reward projects and business change activities, providing specialist reward expertise and recommendations.
• Provide expert reward advice and guidance to HR colleagues on pay, incentives, job evaluation and reward policies.
• Undertake reward modelling, analysis and insight generation to support reward decision-making and governance.
• Support colleague benefits programmes, including benefits renewals, provider relationships and colleague communications.
• Support reward governance activities, ensuring appropriate controls, documentation and compliance.
• Monitor market trends and emerging reward practices to help shape future reward and benefits solutions.

Senior Reward Consultant

Data Engineer

• Build and maintain reliable, scalable data pipelines to support digital enablement, reporting, analytics, and data science
• Work closely with analysts, data scientists, and business teams to understand data requirements
• Support and optimise our Databricks platform, ensuring it is used efficiently and at scale
• Develop and maintain ETL/ELT processes to integrate data from multiple systems
• Identify and fix performance issues in data pipelines and queries
• Ensure data quality, security, and governance standards are met
• Create clear documentation for data pipelines and platform design

Senior Data Engineer

Business Intelligence Developer

• Lead and deliver our Customer Outcomes Monitoring (COM) activity including documenting requirements
• Set priorities and manage delivery to agreed plans
• Maintain continuity of Customer Outcomes Monitoring and governance reporting
• Evidence good customer outcomes as a critical deliverable for regulatory compliance
• Engage stakeholders to define requirements, source data and ensure its availability in Azure Databricks
• Translate requirements into actionable insights through development of Power BI dashboards
• Develop internal capability in modern BI tooling

BI Engineer

Analyst

• Support large scale and complex unit linked transition events ensuring that member experience is optimised, and shareholder risk is managed.
• Work with the aligned transition manager to identify the optimal transition approach for each event, focusing on customer outcomes and shareholder risk.
• Oversee the operational activities of each transition event through provision of data, modelling and adherence to a strict risk and controls framework.
• Provide SME support to wider business when transitions insight is required.
• Work alongside internal stakeholders to ensure transition activity completes as per requirements.

Workplace Pensions Transitions Analyst

Project Manager

• You will be an influential delivery leader, building strong, trusted relationships and energising teams to deliver high‑impact Finance Change initiatives end‑to‑end.
• You will bring proven experience delivering complex Finance Change, with a strong track record in business and operational readiness.
• You will take full ownership for the definition, planning, and delivery of technically complex, strategic projects, developing clear, credible plans and proactively securing the resources required to deliver against agreed objectives and timelines.
• Experience delivering technology and software-driven change across the full Software Development Lifecycle is highly desirable.
• You will set and uphold high governance standards, ensuring delivery remains controlled, compliant and transparent.
• You will maintain high-quality, decision‑focused documentation, including plans, RAID logs, actions, decisions, change controls and governance reporting, to support effective delivery and audit readiness.
• You will be comfortable operating in highly complex, fast-paced and ambiguous environments, confidently balancing competing priorities across senior stakeholder groups.
• You will lead multi-disciplinary teams, including effective management of third-party suppliers, fostering a collaborative, outcome-focused delivery culture.
• You will manage budgets and resources with discipline, operating in a cost‑constrained environment and making clear, timely decisions on prioritisation and resource allocation, with accountability for financial performance.

Finance Change Project Manager

Accountant

• Full responsibility for monitoring and reporting on the health of the balance sheets for all legal entities within the group.
• Accountability for all general ledger reconciliations (policyholder, reinsurance, investments, expenses etc.), providing assurance that all balances are appropriately supported, implementing new methods of monitoring aging of balances and measuring balance sheet risk.
• Accelerate the production of balance sheet reconciliations via data cleanse, automation and use of workflow tooling.
• Review and improve key controls and control evidence relating to balance sheet management.
• Drive the centralisation of reconciliations into a single team, owning the e2e process for centralisation including gathering requirements, designing and implementing solutions, stakeholder management and business readiness.
• Designing and implementing new tooling under the banner of the AFTP programme which will enable automation of reconciliation processes, enhanced oversight of reconciliations completed by outsourcers and new reports which enable the team to effectively manage balance sheet risk.
• Delivery lead for the AFTP implementation, representing the Operational Reporting & Controls Manager and the Head of the Accounting Operations Centre in AFTP project forums. In this role you will ensure that the change teams pay proper regard to the requirements of the business including our RAID and channel communications between the change and BAU teams, escalating for support when needed.
• Ensuring that the AFTP solution design is as simple and cost effective as possible, focusing on standardisation of input data over the creation of multiple, bespoke reconciliation rules.
• Managing a variety of stakeholders (both internal and external) to source, interpret and challenge balance sheet reconciliation data and reporting.
• Design and implementation of new dashboard and reporting outputs that will provide downstream customers and senior stakeholders with insights into the health of the balance sheet and assurance that controls are operating effectively.
• Develop your team such that they become subject matter experts, with an in depth understanding of the group balance sheets, patterns and trends in balance sheet movements and a full understanding of potential balance sheet risk factors to the group.
• Developing your new team to ensure that they have the capability to review and challenge large volumes of balance sheet related data, identify and resolve accounting issues, investigate issues and make recommendations on how to improve the health of the balance sheet and to deliver high quality outputs in short timescales.

Senior Accountant

Manager

• Ensure all applications are supported to a high standard and incidents, requests and problems are updated and resolved within a timely manner, within agreed SLA’s/OLA’s
• Acting as a conduit between L1 desk, other application support / platform teams, core platform teams (e.g. Cloud, Integration, Salesforce) and 3rd party providers
• Contributes ideas and effort towards the development and delivery of service improvement initiatives and related Business Application Support projects
• Supporting 3rd Party Business applications and ensuring alignment to security policies ensuring that there is no vulnerability to the estate
• Support live releases for all business applications, displaying a degree of flexibility to perform during agreed release windows, which may include evenings and weekends
• Maintaining up to date in-depth technical knowledge in one or more specialist areas
• Providing technical understanding to less experienced colleagues however without line management responsibility
• Communicating complex technical solutions effectively to a variety of stakeholders
• Building effective relationships with a range of stakeholders including with sourcing partners

Lead Application Support Manager

• Drive the implementation of an effective Risk Management Framework for the Group to identify, measure, monitor, manage and report on the risks to which the Group and its customers are exposed
• Business Partnering support on all Operational Risk in capital market business across the end to end trade execution flow
• Provide advice, guidance and challenge to the business on Risk Management Framework (Risks and Control Environment, Risk Policies, Risk Reporting and wider elements including Risk Appetite and KRIs.

Senior Non Financial Risk Manager – Capital Markets

Procurement

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders
• Provide operational and governance oversight
• Analyse service performance and operational trends
• Lead and contribute to governance forums
• Proactively manage multiple priorities
• Lead resolution of operational issues
• Influence and challenge constructively

Senior Outsourcing Analyst, FTC 8 Months

Compliance

• Design an important new team at Standard Life
• Work across Public Affairs, Risk, Compliance and senior business leaders
• Map current activity
• Design a future operating model
• Build a clear plan for regulatory policy capability

Head of Regulatory Policy Implementation

• Undertake a range of activity in support of Standard Life’s strategic BPA Business
• Work to bring new deals quickly and efficiently into regulatory reporting processes
• Validate the financial impacts of transactions
• Support activity to meet scheme obligations such as data cleanses and buy-out activities
• Potential to support on a range of activities delivering enhanced processes and systems to support the efficient onboarding of BPAs

BPA Actuary

• Own, drive and manage the implementation of a standard, client focussed, transition journey for a varied portfolio of schemes
• Support complex schemes where required
• Provide ongoing real-time support to Trustees, administrators and other third parties as required
• Develop a thorough understanding of the benefits and data for each scheme within your portfolio
• Develop, own and drive a project plan with each Scheme to proactively manage them through the transition process and onward to buyout
• Proactively identify emerging issues, liaising with external administrators and Phoenix’s outsourced administrator to rectify
• Build and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders, Phoenix’s outsourced administrator, scheme administrators and Trustees
• Produce detailed and accurate management information to support effective oversight
• Support the preparation of contractual documents and individual pension policy documents at buy-out
• Ensure that all contractual obligations are completed on time, and to a high standard before the buy-out occurs
• Support the development of a team of Transition managers

Senior BPA Transition Manager

Data Scientist

• Lead and develop a high-performing BPA data team
• Own the end-to-end BPA data lifecycle
• Provide technical oversight of benefit specifications
• Support transitions and stakeholder integration
• Maintain strong controls, governance and risk management
• Drive continuous improvement and transformation
• Oversee third-party data relationships