[Hiring] Vice President, Asset Analytics and Asset Liability Management @Symetra

Role Description

Symetra is seeking a strategic and collaborative leader to serve as Vice President, Asset Analytics & Asset Liability Management.

Reporting to the Chief Actuary, this executive will lead Symetra's enterprise asset analytics and asset-liability management function, providing strategic oversight of:

• Asset modeling
• Optimization
• Investment analytics
• Economic assumptions
• Asset-related financial planning

This role combines strategic leadership with deep technical credibility. As a trusted advisor to executive leadership, you will transform complex investment and asset-liability analytics into clear business insights, while shaping the long-term vision, operating model, and talent strategy for a high-performing quantitative organization.

You will partner closely with leaders across Investments, Finance, Actuarial, and Risk, including the Head of Portfolio Management, to support enterprise decision-making, capital management, and long-term growth objectives.

What You will Do

• Set the strategic direction for Symetra's enterprise asset analytics and ALM capabilities, ensuring alignment with business, financial, and capital objectives.
• Lead and develop a diverse team of quantitative professionals, including asset modelers, investment analysts, actuaries, and finance specialists.
• Oversee enterprise asset models, ALM frameworks, optimization analyses, and asset-related projections that support pricing, valuation, capital management, planning, and risk management.
• Partner with Investments leadership to support strategic asset allocation, asset optimization, and portfolio construction decisions that align enterprise assets with liability obligations, risk appetite, and capital objectives.
• Drive modernization efforts through automation, scalable modeling platforms, enhanced analytics, and improved reporting capabilities.
• Establish governance, prioritization, and operating frameworks that improve transparency, accountability, and execution across the organization.
• Provide executive-level insights on portfolio composition, investment performance, asset strategy, and emerging market trends.
• Build strong partnerships across Investments, Finance, Actuarial, and senior leadership to influence strategic decisions and achieve enterprise outcomes.

What Success Looks Like

• A modern, scalable, and well-governed asset analytics function.
• Strong executive confidence in asset projections, insights, and recommendations.
• Trusted advisor status with executive leaders across Investments, Finance, Actuarial, and Risk.
• Streamlined analytics and modeling processes with reduced manual work.
• Effective prioritization of enterprise requests and strategic initiatives.
• A high-performing, engaged team with strong development pathways and technical depth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in life insurance or annuity investments, asset analytics, ALM, or related leadership roles.
• Deep expertise in asset-liability management, insurance asset strategy, investment spreads, and balance sheet management.
• Strong understanding of insurance investment structures, regulatory capital frameworks, and insurance company economics.
• Experience leading enterprise asset models, investment analytics, and forecasting across diverse asset classes.
• Knowledge of life insurance and annuity products and their underlying liability cash flows.
• Proven success leading and developing high-performing technical teams.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate complex quantitative concepts into executive-level insights.
• Professional designation such as CFA, CAIA, FSA, or another relevant investment, actuarial, or quantitative credential required.
• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering, or a related quantitative discipline required; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience with Bermuda insurance regulatory frameworks preferred.
• Knowledge of structured products, private credit, commercial and residential mortgage loans, asset-backed finance, alternative investments, and derivative hedging strategies preferred.
• Experience overseeing quantitative technology, modeling, or analytical development teams, including Python-based environments preferred.

Benefits

• Flexible full-time or hybrid telecommuting arrangements.
• Plan for your future with our 401(k) plan and take advantage of immediate vesting and company matching up to 6%.
• Paid time away including vacation and sick time, flex days and ten paid holidays.
• Give back to your community and double your impact through our company matching.

Company Description

Symetra is a national financial services company dedicated to helping people achieve their financial goals and feel confident about the future. In our daily work, we're guided by the principles of Value, Transparency and Sustainability.

• We provide products and services people need at a competitive price.
• We communicate clearly and openly so people understand what they're buying.
• We design products--and operate our company--to stand the test of time.
• We're committed to showing up for our communities, lifting up our employees, and standing up for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).