Job Description

Are you looking for a supportive, collaborative workplace with great teams and inspiring leaders? You've come to the right place. We're looking for ambitious people who share our values and want to make every day better for people around the world. If this sounds like you, and the career below sounds exciting, we'd like to hear from you.

Working Arrangement Hybrid



Job Profile Description

As a key member of Manulife's Global Wealth and Asset Management (GWAM) Finance Team, the Senior Pricing Analyst will be heavily involved in supporting the US Retirement pricing management.

This role will play a critical function in achieving organizational financial and pricing objectives via supporting sales and retention goals. This role will operate as a key strategic advisor with decision making authorities to the Sales teams, Strategic Relationship Management (SRM) teams and Pricing leadership to help win and retain business. The candidate will be empowered to foster relationships with customer facing roles to drive business outcomes.

The role conducts both qualitative and quantitative internal data analysis, financial reporting, and external market studies, supports internal customer needs, helps to guide pricing strategy, and conduct business process analysis to improve pricing operations and management. This includes financial analytics and reporting that relate to pricing and underwriting of new and existing clients as well as analytics relating to competition.

Pricing Analyst will be required to demonstrate and develop leadership, coaching and consultative skills by living the Manulife values. Additionally have sound technical skills including working with large data sets and expertise with the MS Office Suite. The It is a role that is designed for someone who is eager to grow their career at a top Financial Services firm.

Individual Accountabilities:

• Collaborate and consult with the Internal & External Sales organization and Strategic Relationship Management (SRM) teams along with other internal departments on pre-sale pricing exercises, repricing situations, and client retention efforts across all retirement products.
• Monitoring and identification of plan profitability opportunities, working with the broader business, including sales and relationship management, to improve client and business financials.
• Ability to deliver sophisticated pricing analytics, pricing model analysis, profitability analysis, market analysis, business risk analysis and implementation of final fees.
• Ability to apply existing models to aggregate and manipulate large & sophisticated data sets from multiple sources/formats, which in turn, drive automated internal and external reporting.
• The incumbent strives to build on prior experiences to further develop strong data analytical skills and answer sophisticated questions and needs with data and reporting.
• Analyze financial and pricing information in relation to our overall business strategy to help resolve any related financial risks to the organization.
• Ownership of risk management and risk mitigation through the rigorous development of controls, procedures, training, and analysis.
• Represent the Pricing Team as a subject matter authority (SME) for assigned projects and pricing related matters.
• Host periodic training sessions for field support, new hires and when pricing updates occur throughout the year.
• Ability to explain sophisticated analytics and pricing strategy to non-financial internal customers and teams in a simple and important manner.

Shared Accountabilities

• Improve client retentions that drive organizational business and financial objectives.
• Conduct both qualitative and quantitative internal data analysis and external market studies, support internal customer needs, help to guide, and innovate Pricing strategy and conduct business process analysis to improve Pricing operations and management.
• Support and advise internal customers' need for information and data from pricing and financial models.

Key Behaviors

• Demonstrate and continue to develop leadership, coaching and consultative skills in this role.
• Challenge the status quo and innovates the team to develop new tools, process efficiencies and automated solutions to meet internal and external customer demands.
• Demonstrate big picture thinking in decision making and has the desire to lead change that will positively impact business growth and profitability.
• Superior analytical, communication and written skills with militant attention to detail.
• Demonstrate highly engaged behaviors including but not limited to an exceptional work ethic, personal accountability, team first mentality, positive attitude, high energy, desire to help others and eagerness to learn and take on new responsibilities.
• Invest in career growth through taking training courses offered by Manulife/JH, making progress towards an advanced degree or certificate/designation program, and establishing mentor relationships.
• The incumbent will be required to demonstrate and develop leadership, coaching and consultative skills by living the Manulife values.

Qualifications

• 5 years of proven experience within the financial services industry and pricing experience.
• Preferred 3 years of experience within the defined contribution and/or defined benefit industry.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Mathematics, Statistics, or business-related field.
• Sophisticated knowledge and thorough experience with Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SQL, Access and PowerBI.
• Experience with financial reporting, pricing, underwriting or risk analysis, and marketplace analytics.
• Meticulous, well-organized, and excellent analytical, communication, presentation, written and oral skills.
• Self-starter and teammate with a high level of initiative, strong work ethic and the ability to capture, synthesize, organize, and report information.
• Ability to multi-task and handle priorities in a demanding and deadline-oriented environment.
• Proactive critical thinking and willingness to innovate and question the status quo.
• Proven organizational, time management and prioritization skills to meet strict deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Exceptional work ethic, positive demeanour, eagerness to learn and tackle new responsibilities.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate across departments within the organization including senior leadership and peers.
• High energy and driven individual looking to build a career within a Finance organization.

What can we offer you?

• A competitive salary and benefits packages.
• A growth trajectory that extends upward and outward, encouraging you to follow your passions and learn new skills.
• A focus on growing your career path with us.
• Flexible work policies and strong work-life balance.
• Professional development and leadership opportunities.

Our commitment to you

• Values-first culture

We lead with our Values every day and bring them to life together. * Boundless opportunity

We create opportunities to learn and grow at every stage of your career. * Continuous innovation

We invite you to help redefine the future of financial services. * Delivering the promise of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We foster an inclusive workplace where everyone thrives. * Championing Corporate Citizenship

We build a business that benefits all partners and has a positive social and environmental impact.

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About John Hancock and Manulife

John Hancock is a unit of Manulife Financial Corporation, a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. We operate primarily as John Hancock in the United States, and Manulife globally, including Canada, Asia and Europe. We provide financial advice, insurance and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. Assets under management and administration by Manulife and its subsidiaries were CAD$1.3 trillion (US$1.1 trillion) as of June 30, 2021. Manulife Financial Corporation trades as MFC on the TSX, NYSE, and PSE, and under 945 on the SEHK. Manulife can be found at .

One of the largest life insurers in the United States, John Hancock supports more than 10 million Americans with a broad range of financial products, including , , , , and . Additional information about John Hancock may be found at .

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