Director/Managing Director, Hedging Strategy
Kuvare Holdingsa day ago
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Summary
Kuvare Holdings is seeking a Director/Managing Director, Hedging Strategy to join their team in Des Plaines, IL. The role involves designing, implementing, and overseeing the company's hedging framework for its insurance investment portfolio.
About the Role
As the Director/MD, Hedging Strategy, you will be responsible for managing interest rate risk and supporting capital efficiency across the organization. Your tasks will include evolving the hedging framework, designing and implementing hedging strategies using derivatives, overseeing day-to-day hedging activities, and performing risk management analytics. You will also present hedge strategies to senior management and act as a subject-matter expert on derivatives and interest rate hedging.
About You
Required:
- 10-15+ years of direct experience with hedging and derivatives, ideally at an insurance company or within a closely related asset-liability management environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g. finance, mathematics, economics, or engineering).
- Deep hands-on experience with a wide range of derivative instruments including forwards, futures, and swaps.
- Experience negotiating and executing derivatives legal documents.
- Strong ability to communicate complex, technical concepts and hedging strategies to a wide range of stakeholders.
- Experience with U.S. statutory accounting, GAAP, insurance regulations, and actuarial functions.
Preferred:
- Advanced degree (e.g. MBA) and/or professional certifications such as CFA or FRM.
- Broad understanding of life and annuity products.
Kuvare Holdings
Kuvare is on a mission to serve hardworking consumers overwhelmed by the complexities of retirement and is built from the ground up to do so. Our unified financial hub protects the retirement of everyday Americans and the distributors, carriers and investors that serve them. We create life insurance and annuity products that protect consumers’ retirements, and are simplified for distributor partners and financial professionals to sell and service. Kuvare family of companies: Retail Annuity and Life Insurance Solutions: - United Life Insurance Company - Guaranty Income Life Insurance Company - Lincoln Benefit Life Institutional Insurance: - Kuvare Life Re Bespoke Insurance Solutions: - Ignite Partners
Des Plaines, IL