Actuarial Specialist

SUMMARY:
If you’re an Actuary who’s itching for something bigger than crunching numbers in the same old silo, this one’s worth your time. Think: real impact, real visibility, and a chance to help build something from the ground up, not just slot into an existing machine.

POSITION INFO:
Our client is a fast-growing professional services firm shaking things up in the actuarial space. They’re building a brand-new actuarial offering, and they want someone sharp to join the founding team. So if you’re looking for a role where you’ll actually see the value of your work, where your ideas matter, and where you’ll get exposure across blue-chip portfolios, this is your lane.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver actuarial audit support across insurance, retirement funds, and medical schemes
• Review and draft reports for technical provisions, IAS 19 and IFRS 17 liabilities
• Support IFRS 17 engagements, including transition, modelling, audits, and policy impact analysis
• Contribute to actuarial modelling and valuation work (liabilities, reinsurance, due diligence, capital optimization, and dashboards)
• Assist clients with enhancing actuarial and risk management processes, including model reviews

• Nearly qualified or qualified Actuary
• Experience within an audit support or consultancy environment
• Exposure across insurance (life & non-life), retirement funds, and/or medical schemes
• Knowledge of IFRS 17, SAM, reserving, ORSA and reinsurance will be a strong advantage
• Experience working under relevant audit standards (ISA 540, IAS 19, IFRS 13, and QIS 3)
• Strong report writing and business communication skills
• Confident engaging with senior stakeholders
• Solid understanding of modelling tools - Prophet, SQL, Python, SAS, Power BI or MATLAB (advantageous, not essential)
• Able to manage multiple moving parts and still deliver accurately
• Proactive, curious, organized, and comfortable taking the lead where needed

• Actuarial
• Product Development
• Pricing
• Valuations
• Credit Risk
• Market Risk