AVP Actuary
Our client is seeking an experienced, hands-on Actuary to join a small, highly visible actuarial team within a growing insurance organization owned by a large U.S. parent company. This is a high-impact role for an actuary who enjoys broad responsibility, autonomy, and real ownership of work. This hire will play a critical role in leading key actuarial workstreams, and serving as a trusted point of contact internally and externally (including reinsurers). The ideal candidate is someone who can step in immediately, operate independently, and-over time-serve as a potential successor to the current chief actuary.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and execute experience studies across multiple life and annuity lines
- Support pricing, reserving support, and actuarial reporting
- Work closely with reinsurers, including responding to actuarial questions and explaining assumptions and results clearly
- Develop, maintain, and enhance actuarial models and analyses using modern tools and programming languages
- Perform actuarial analyses related to reinsurance structures and profitability
- Partner with stakeholders across the business in a small-team, high-responsibility setting
- Contribute to process improvements and act as a true "jack of all trades" within the actuarial function
- Provide mentorship and guidance to junior or rotational team members as needed
Required Qualifications
- ASA or FSA designation required (career ASA is acceptable)
- 6+ years of actuarial experience, specifically working within the life and annuity insurance industry
- Strong experience with experience studies
- Working knowledge of reinsurance concepts and structures
- Experience using GGY AXIS (strongly preferred) or at least one of the following: Python, R, SQL
- Comfortable working independently in a small actuarial team
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain actuarial work to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience interacting directly with reinsurers and external actuarial counterparts
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