Transamerica

Recruitment

• Partner with hiring to build and execute effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment.
• Partner effectively with recruiting team peers and cross-functional partners (Compensation, HR, Systems and Programs teams, etc.)
• Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company.
• Recruit passive candidates at senior levels and develop sophisticated closing strategies that match fit and motivation rather than focusing on selling alone.
• Write recruitment strategy documents with deliverables, timelines and a formal tracking process.
• Interview candidates within the framework of the position specification.
• Possess strong ability to screen, interview and prepare a candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline.
• Partner with the recruiting manager on fostering excellence in the team's culture and driving productivity.
• Self-sufficient and able to work with little direct supervision.
• Excellent communication, organizational and negotiation skills.
• Strong client focus and commitment to continuous improvement; ability to proactively network and establish effective working relationships, must pursue conscious cost-containment efforts in recruiting, continually seek new sourcing options, and develop creative approaches to delivering candidates to the customer.
• Ability to execute recruiting strategy, including employer promotion in the marketplace, candidate management, diversity sourcing, and interview process management.
• Strong consulting skills and demonstrated ability to work in a team environment, as a team leader and member.
• Possess strong analytic skills with ability to create, measure, and scale the right workflow between candidates, hiring managers, and the recruiting team.
• Ability to execute searches at all levels
• Identifies and utilizes innovative sourcing methods, posts positions, performs resume review, conducts candidate screens and participates in feedback towards making a hiring decision.
• Recruits, screens, and interviews internal and external applicants to fill current or expected job vacancies.
• Reviews and evaluates applicants work history, education, training, and other qualifications.
• Notifies applicants of consideration or rejection; interviews those selected that meet organizations qualifications.
• Informs candidates of jobs duties/responsibilities, compensation and benefits programs, work schedule/conditions, career advancement opportunities, etc.
• Conducts and scores, or arranges for, testing of applicants, records results and other relevant information.
• Prepares and extends job offers; /or authorizes appropriate paperwork.

Technical Sourcing Recruiter – Temporary Contract

Technical Recruiter

• Partner with hiring to build and execute effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment.
• Partner effectively with recruiting team peers and cross-functional partners (Compensation, HR, Systems and Programs teams, etc.)
• Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company.
• Recruit passive candidates at senior levels and develop sophisticated closing strategies that match fit and motivation rather than focusing on selling alone.
• Write recruitment strategy documents with deliverables, timelines and a formal tracking process.
• Interview candidates within the framework of the position specification.
• Possess strong ability to screen, interview and prepare a candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline.
• Partner with the recruiting manager on fostering excellence in the team's culture and driving productivity.
• Excellent communication, organizational and negotiation skills.
• Strong client focus and commitment to continuous improvement; ability to proactively network and establish effective working relationships, must pursue conscious cost-containment efforts in recruiting, continually seek new sourcing options, and develop creative approaches to delivering candidates to the customer.
• Ability to execute recruiting strategy, including employer promotion in the marketplace, candidate management, diversity sourcing, and interview process management.
• Strong consulting skills and demonstrated ability to work in a team environment, as a team leader and member.
• Possess strong analytic skills with ability to create, measure, and scale the right workflow between candidates, hiring managers, and the recruiting team.
• Ability to execute searches at all levels Strong client focus and commitment to continuous improvement; ability to proactively network and establish effective working relationships, must pursue conscious cost-containment efforts in recruiting, continually seek new sourcing options, and develop creative approaches to delivering candidates to the customer.
• Identifies and utilizes innovative sourcing methods, posts positions, performs resume review, conducts candidate screens and participates in feedback towards making a hiring decision.
• Recruits, screens, and interviews internal and external applicants to fill current or expected job vacancies.
• Reviews and evaluates applicants work history, education, training, and other qualifications.
• Notifies applicants of consideration or rejection; interviews those selected that meet organizations qualifications.
• Informs candidates of jobs duties/responsibilities, compensation and benefits programs, work schedule/conditions, career advancement opportunities, etc.
• Conducts and scores, or arranges for, testing of applicants, records results and other relevant information.
• Prepares and extends job offers; /or authorizes appropriate paperwork.

Technical Recruiter – Temporary Contract

Operations

• Enhance relationships with key service providers, vendors, customers, financial advisors, and wholesaling staff.
• Provide timely support for portfolio managers, including working with institutional trading partners, monitoring as-of trading activity as well as any resulting fund impact.
• Act as a resource to fully resolve escalated customer and financial advisor service issues; perform root cause analysis, communicating resolution and taking action toward service recovery.
• Perform oversight of service providers based on operational guidelines and procedures related to responsibilities such as the year-end shareholder tax reporting process, direct business trade functions, fund pricing and distributions, and cash control.
• Provide appropriate information to the Operations Management team regarding potential servicing issues.
• Support internal and external audits; complete research requests from Transamerica's Legal and Compliance teams with an increased attention to detail and strong degree of precision.

Operations Relationship Specialist

Manager

• Build and analyze sophisticated models for insurance products, investments and/or portfolios to increase company risk adjusted returns.
• Leverage advanced knowledge of actuarial, financial, statistical, data science and/or balance sheet modeling analytics to develop, test and validate models for various functions within the company.
• Lead modeling activities on various insurance liabilities, fixed-income assets and derivatives in actuarial systems, including AXIS/ALFA/MoSes.
• Model and quantify risks including equity and interest rate sensitivities, cash flow variability, credit, alternative investment, or liquidity risks.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders from business line valuation, ALM, risk management, financial/risk reporting, etc.
• Embrace new technologies to improve workflows.
• Design and build external or embedded controls to mitigate operating risks in workflows.
• Apply risk management techniques and procedures, including the company's mandated risk methodologies.
• Gather and analyze market data, calculate hedge program or portfolio statistics and develop/use models to simulate financial reporting processes.
• Serve as a company-wide expert in multiple specialties.
• Act as a subject matter expert for colleagues with less experience.
• Apply and integrate statistical, mathematical, predictive modeling and business analysis skills to manage and manipulate complex high volume data from a variety of sources.
• Design and lead multiple projects, with accountability for ongoing activities and objectives.
• Review the work of others, providing direction and insight on research solutions to problems presented.
• Develop staffing plans, recruit qualified candidates, and develop internal staff resources.
• Lead multiple advanced research projects.
• Interpret internal or external issues and recommend solutions/best practices.
• Solve complex problems; take a broad perspective to identify solutions.
• Build efficient models and processes
• Apply judgment to modeling choices in a defensible manner.
• Assess the materiality of various modeling and data choices.

Senior Manager, ALM Modeling

Actuary

• Manages staff and provides guidance on activities related to Company products and processes for one or more lines of business.
• Plays an active role in guiding the preparation and interpretation of actuarial and financial information.
• Exercises significant judgment in setting priorities and determining necessary tasks.
• Provides guidance and advice regarding technical actuarial issues such as pricing rates, modeling methodology, reserving principles and related matters.
• Leads the preparation and interpretation of actuarial information for presentation to Senior Management.
• Supports and assists Actuarial management to develop actuarial policies and procedures.
• Leads several key projects at various times during the year.
• Leads the development of actuarial talent within the organization.
• Represents the company on industry and professional committees and/or with regulators.
• Manages a team of employees.

Senior Actuary – ALM Modeling

Data Analyst

• Review and analyze current policies and procedures; identify, recommend and implement new and/or enhanced practices.
• Contribute to the development of new and/or enhanced compliance programs and enterprise-wide initiatives.
• Research, analyze and interpret current, new, and proposed regulatory requirements (e.g., statutes, regulations, bulletins) to determine impact to organization.
• Provide guidance and/or develop summaries related to regulatory requirements; identify possible courses of action for various departments.
• Analyze processes, services and products; provide ongoing guidance to ensure compliance with regulatory and statutory requirements.
• Compile information for completion of reporting, including reports for management and state/federal regulators.
• With minimal supervision perform analysis, identify trends and follow up on opportunities for enhancement.
• Manage, oversee and analyze reports from third-parties (e.g., sub advisors, audit firms).
• Provide guidance and support to business partners (e.g. Sales and Marketing) in creation of mandated product training.
• Update and maintaining complete and accurate policies, procedures, compliance logs or files.
• Assist team members with research and assigned tasks; provide training to supported teams.
• May assist management with highly complex projects and coaching/development of staff.
• Monitoring and oversight of compliance and regulatory needs specific to data.
• Close partnership with members of our Legal, Compliance, Privacy, and Risk teams, specific to elements of data.
• Management and ownership of compliance-based forums (I.e., external data and data model working group)
• Expertly guide D&A team members and/or coordinate w/appropriate legal partners in data solutions should questions or needs arise.
• Influence data standards and usage pursuant to current regulations

Lead Compliance Analyst – Data Analytics

Risk

• Plan and facilitate evidence-based risk assessments for processes, applications, technologies, and projects to assess controls and identify control gaps.
• Help develop and conduct the annual Risk and Control Self-Assessment plan.
• Identify, assess, and record risks along with mitigation or acceptance plans.
• Prepare Architecture Review Board (ARB) summaries, outlining risk assessment recommendations.
• Train stakeholders and promote awareness of risk management.
• Work with IT Risk (2nd Line), Information Security, Internal Controls, Internal Audit, and external consultants to mature Transamerica’s IT Risk Management Program.
• Ensure application compliance data accuracy in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB).
• Maintain assessment templates for alignment with relevant regulations (SOX, SOC1/2, NYDFS)

Intermediate First Line Risk & Control Analyst

QA Engineer

• Lead the development and execution of complex quality assurance programs that support operational performance and risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with business leaders to implement innovative solutions, monitor contractual agreements, and drive operational excellence through strategic initiatives and data-driven insights.
• Generate innovative solutions through focus groups, collaboration, and data analysis that positively impact business performance.
• Recommend strategic improvements by leveraging deep knowledge of quality assurance best practices, policies, and procedures to mitigate risk and enhance the customer experience.
• Independently lead or support large, long-term strategic projects across cross-functional teams, including compliance and audit initiatives.
• Perform quality assurance and quality-on-quality reviews for complex business processes to ensure compliance with state and federal regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), System and Organization Controls 1 (SOC 1), and internal quality standards.
• Develop and present robust reporting to inform leadership of gaps and trends, driving measurable business outcomes.
• Establish, execute, and monitor corrective action plans to address service level agreement gaps and ensure compliance.
• Identify and implement new processes that challenge convention and improve customer and employee experiences.
• Support leadership in onboarding and mentoring newly hired quality assurance staff.
• May assist in refining reporting tools and adapting to evolving quality requirements.

Senior Quality Assurance Consultant

• Oversee and/or lead weekly dashboard analysis, monthly reporting, and quarter-end financial reporting for new business.
• Oversee weekly rate-setting analysis, assist in rate recommendations, and the implementation of rate changes.
• Maintain and manipulate pricing models for the analysis of new and existing products and product features.
• Monitor and analyze developments in actuarial techniques, laws, competitive landscape, and regulations applicable to annuity products and company operations.
• Assess the financial implications of reinsurance strategies and provide recommendations on potential reinsurance treaties.
• Assess profitability in varying economic environments on multiple bases, including IFRS, statutory, market consistent, and/or GAAP.
• Ensure compliance with corporate risk and return targets.
• Work closely with product development and competitive intelligence function.
• Support product development of indexed annuities, via pricing various preliminary ideas, sensitivity testing products before launch, and filing support.

Associate Actuary – Indexed Annuity Pricing

Director

• Analyze the competitive environment and peer company trends to provide insightful intelligence for use in decision-making at the industry, company strategy and product levels.
• Monitor retirement plan industry conditions (including 401(k),403(b), 457, defined benefit plans) and identify hot topics and emerging trends, among both traditional peer companies and potential disruptors
• Collect and maintain comprehensive industry and peer company data.
• Create and deliver analysis used by senior management and other stakeholders.
• Collaborate with Competitive Analysis team to share information about peer company products, and product and operational strategies.
• Lead or assist in the preparation of internal publications highlighting competitive data, and peer company and industry trends.
• Work with key stakeholders to develop and deliver new competitive research in a user-friendly manner.
• Provide research and analysis for special strategic projects.
• Build relationships across divisions and functional areas to gather and disseminate data and analysis in a timely manner.
• Share peer company and industry intelligence with Competitive Analysis team performing deeper product-level analysis.

Director, Competitive Analysis – Retirement

Vice President

• Responsible for the distribution of Transamerica products for a defined territory.
• Develop new business and maintain existing business relationships by conducting in-person sales meetings.
• Provide advisers with up-to-date information on Transamerica products and business building ideas.
• Reach out to prospective advisers within market to grow Transamerica’s sales and market share.
• Manage business in partnership with Internal Wholesaler.
• Allocate resources provided by Transamerica Capital, Inc.
• Participate in Transamerica national and summer sales conferences, bi-annual regional sales meetings, training, and sales meetings as required.
• Stay compliant in accordance with Transamerica Capital, Inc. rules, policies and procedures.
• Stay current on Transamerica products.