Manager - General Insurance Actuarial Consulting

About the role

EY is hiring a Manager for its General Insurance Actuarial Consulting practice in Sydney. As an experienced Manager, you will provide strategic actuarial consulting to clients across the general insurance sector, focusing on long-tail injury schemes such as workers compensation and motor accident/CTP insurance. You will manage high-profile projects, deliver insights that help organisations navigate uncertainty, and help grow the next generation of actuarial talent.

Key responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with clients in the public and private sectors
• Keep up with industry developments, regulatory change and emerging trends, and contribute to thought leadership
• Develop and implement actuarial models and methodologies, and analyse and interpret data
• Coach and develop junior team members
• Shape continuous improvement of processes, tools and analytical approaches
• Work on projects ranging from business transformation, capital and risk management, pricing and product innovation to liability valuation and appointed actuary work
• Collaborate with colleagues across the Financial Services practice, including strategy, transactions, tax, technology and risk

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance or a related field
• Completed or progressing towards a professional actuarial qualification (e.g. FIAA)
• 7+ years of professional actuarial experience, including workers compensation, motor accident injury insurance or similar
• In-depth understanding of long-tail, bodily injury lines of business and general insurance
• Experience in product development and pricing, claims and reserving, underwriting and reinsurance, capital and risk management, asset and liability valuation, IFRS 17, regulatory and prudential frameworks, advanced analytics and portfolio strategy is advantageous

Required skills

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to explain complex information to non-specialists
• Strong quantitative abilities and analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency with actuarial software and review of technical work in Excel, SAS, R and Python
• Project management, business development and mentoring of junior staff
• Adaptability in a dynamic, technology-driven environment

What we offer

• Career development with future-focused skills
• Flexible work arrangements
• A benefits package including a yearly wellness incentive, an extra 8 weeks of flex leave per year and family-friendly policies such as up to 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave
• A competitive salary open to negotiation depending on skills and experience