What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Analyst (Insurance Operations) position at Athene Annuity and Life Company?
We are Athene. At Athene, we are driven to do more. We are a leading retirement services company that issues, reinsures and acquires retirement savings products designed for the increasing number of individuals and institutions seeking to fund retirement needs. We see every day as a new opportunity to measure ourselves against the best - and then we don't stop until we've set the bar even higher. We're ready to help you achieve more.
Purpose:
As the Operations Product Analyst, you will leverage your technical product expertise to develop, test, and implement new products and modifications to administration systems. You will also provide comprehensive product support, both internally and externally, by performing complex product calculations and manually calculating projections that are not supported by the system.Accountabilities:
- To provide technical product expertise for the purposes of developing, testing, and implementing new products and administration system modifications.
- Provide internal and external product support by performing complex product calculations and manual calculations of non-system supported projections.
- Develop sophisticated testing tools and test plans to verify the accuracy of illustrated values for new business and inforce illustrations as well as administration systems.
- Perform detailed technical product calculations, provide technical product expertise, and support manually generated inforce illustrations. Calculations performed will often be complex and non-routine, where analysis of each individual situation may be necessary to determine the appropriate solution.
- Using Visual Basic programming language develop automation tools for the purposes of extracting or loading product rates into administration systems, extracting policy data from administration systems, decreasing illustration software release lead times, and automating manual processes.
- Develop and implement test plans for new products and changes/enhancements to existing products and perform testing
- Assist in the development and maintenance of documentation on new and existing testing tools, software testing, and other departmental procedures.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and applicable work experience required.
- 3 years of computer application experience in a business setting required
- Insurance industry experience along with a solid understanding of insurance products is preferred.
- Exposure to accounting and finance would be beneficial.
- Strong analytical skills and math proficiency.
- Experience/education with spreadsheet (Excel) and database (Microsoft Access) software packages is required.
- Microsoft Visual Basic programming experience preferred.
- Experience with annuity administration systems is strongly preferred.
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