Canada – Longevity Data Analyst (Fixed term – 15 months)

Location: Flexible on location within Canada – current Canadian team predominately located in Toronto and Montreal.

Opportunity: Do you love details? Dig technology? Excited to work with large datasets? Are you driven and results-oriented? Then you could be exactly who we’re looking for!

Club Vita – a distinguished international longevity data analytics company with employees across Canada,

the UK and US – is looking to expand its Canadian team of professionals. The position we are filling is for a longevity data analyst.

About Club Vita: Club Vita’s mission is to improve later life financial well-being by promoting awareness of longevity risk and making its management transparent and efficient.

We work primarily with workplace pension funds in the UK, Canada and the US. On their behalf, we facilitate the accumulation and pooling of data underlying the longevity patterns of retirees with annuity benefits. Club member pension funds and their advisors use our analytics to understand their emerging longevity patterns, to drive more informed strategic decisions and to embed best-practice risk-management into their governance frameworks. We also support financial institutions that manage longevity risk: insurers, reinsurers and asset managers, helping them offer attractive longevity risk protection products in a tech-enabled, efficient manner. Our current community includes more than 800 pension funds, 9 pension advisory firms and 44 (re)insurers. Across our three clubs, we are tracking the survival patterns of a diverse population of over five million people with benefits in workplace pension plans.

Club Vita was born in the UK in 2008. Our systems and processes have been developed by a multi-disciplinary team of around 70 employees across our three geographies (10 of whom are located in Canada), with a shared passion for “allowing the data to do the talking” by combining modern technology and statistical techniques. Following a successful UK launch, we went on to build similar communities in Canada (2015) and in the United States (2019).

For further information, please visit www.clubvita.net and follow Club Vita on LinkedIn.

The Role

Summary

What will you get to do? Our ideal candidate will play an important role in Club Vita Canada’s longevity data collection and analysis for our large and growing dataset -- covering over 1.1M pensioner records. This includes overall responsibility for efficiently processing club member longevity data submissions, assessing data quality using Club Vita’s proprietary systems and processes, and subsequently generating longevity analysis and reporting.

The role initially involves collating and processing longevity data, running longevity models, preparing technical analysis and production of club member reports. This role provides a particularly unique opportunity for a professional who has experience in the administration of defined benefit pension plans or group annuity blocks, and is interested in expanding into longevity analysis and risk management.

Responsibilities

Provide pensioner longevity analysis to a wide range of Canadian pension plans

Prepare and validate pension plan data and assess suitability for use and reasonability

Extract and analyze data from various sources, including but not limited to databases and Excel files

Process data, prepare reports and calculations, and respond to inquiries from internal and external parties

Contribute to the effective knowledge transfer within the team

Liaise with the internal Canadian and international team and external parties to perform all necessary data processing, calculation and reporting

Develop an in-depth understanding of working procedures and systems applications

Adhere to the highest Information Security standards, policies and procedures

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

1-2+ years of experience in the pension or insurance industry, with a strong preference for a focus on defined benefit pension plan or group annuity block administration

Experience of working with large datasets

Very strong data manipulation skills, particularly with Excel, but experience with other programs like R and Python is also beneficial

Good organizational skills, with the ability to manage many concurrent deliverables

Dynamic, motivated and driven, with a keen interest and desire to learn and develop

Some understanding of the legislative framework for Canadian pension plans is beneficial

Bilingualism (French and English) is beneficial

Logical thinker

Technical ability to follow processes and very good attention to detail

Eagerness to enhance, refine and continuously improve processes

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Adaptable and flexible

Active team player

Applying for this position

Club Vita is committed to an inclusive, diverse, and accessible workplace. We encourage all interested applicants to submit a cover letter and resume to recruitment@clubvita.net for consideration.

We thank all applicants for their interest, but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.