Senior M&A Actuary [UK based]

Compre Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Private healthcare

Pension

Life assurance

Income protection

Cycle to work

Season ticket loan

Learning support

Job summary

Compre is seeking a Senior M&A Actuary to drive actuarial due diligence across acquisitions, assessing reserving, capital, pricing and deal structure. You will manage multiple transactions and engage with cedants and external advisers, ensuring smooth transitions into the wider business.

Based in London with a hybrid two-day-in-office setup, the role supports our global M&A activity across Lloyd’s, Europe and North America. A dynamic, growth-focused environment awaits the successful candidate.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ post-qual non-life insurance or reinsurance actuarial experience.
• Strong transaction due diligence and/or risk-based pricing expertise.
• Broad reserving knowledge, including liability lines.
• The commercial judgement to turn actuarial analysis into clear deal recommendations.
• Confident communication, relationship management and leadership skills.
• The ability to take ownership and deliver across competing priorities.
• Capital experience, including BSCR or Solvency II SCR, would be advantageous.
• Contributing positively to our culture and values.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with Underwriting, Finance, Risk & Compliance and Actuarial teams, you’ll lead actuarial due diligence across acquisitions—assessing reserving, capital, pricing, valuation and deal structure.
• You’ll manage multiple transactions, engage with cedants and external advisers, and oversee the transition of successful deals into the wider business.

Skills

Post-qual experience

Transaction due diligence

Pricing expertise

Reserving knowledge

Commercial judgement

Communication & leadership

Capital experience

Culture fit & collaboration

Job description

Senior M&A Actuary [UK based]

Department: Actuarial

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK (London)

Description

Senior M&A Actuary

London or Bermuda

Hybrid, two days in office

Permanent

We are a fast-growing global reinsurance speciality company servicing the insurance markets of Lloyd’s, Europe and North America.

We’re looking for a commercially minded qualified actuary to support our global M&A activity and help deliver Compre’s growth ambitions.

Responsibilities

Working closely with Underwriting, Finance, Risk & Compliance and Actuarial teams, you’ll lead actuarial due diligence across acquisitions—assessing reserving, capital, pricing, valuation and deal structure. You’ll manage multiple transactions, engage with cedants and external advisers, and oversee the transition of successful deals into the wider business.

Candidate requirements

• Right to work in the location you’re applying to
• 5+ years’ post-qual non-life insurance or reinsurance actuarial experience
• Strong transaction due diligence and/or risk-based pricing expertise
• Broad reserving knowledge, including liability lines
• The commercial judgement to turn actuarial analysis into clear deal recommendations
• Confident communication, relationship management and leadership skills
• The ability to take ownership and deliver across competing priorities
• Capital experience, including BSCR or Solvency II SCR, would be advantageous.
• Contributing positively to our culture and values.

If you combine technical actuarial expertise with curiosity, commercial instinct and a collaborative approach, we’d like to hear from you.

Benefits

Compre is a global speciality reinsurance company that offers capital and liability solutions to its clients, providing them with the certainty they need on their portfolios. We are known for being trusted partners to the market and for having a team of experts who collaborate and maintain discipline in underwriting, ensuring a differentiated client experience.

As an ambitious business, we are focused on building depth, breadth, and diversity in the talent across our business to be future-ready. Our clients' needs evolve as the market changes, which is why we continuously invest in areas such as data and technology. This way, we can serve current and future clients' needs with scalable and new technology, delivered by our growing agile Data and Technology team.

• Our values are what make us stand out. We value each other, empower and hold ourselves accountable, are authentic, collaborative and inclusive, and continuously strive for progress and innovation.

Why join us?

At Compre, we offer a range of benefits and team engagement events and provide a supportive environment for learning and growth. We are intent upon building a great business, and over the last few years, we have expanded our markets across Europe, Lloyd's, and North America. Our team is based in Bermuda, Finland, Germany, Malta, UK and the US.

To keep our globally dispersed team connected, we have various employee resource groups, including Wellbeing, DEI, COMMS and Engagement.

We invest in our people and offer learning and development opportunities for leaders and employees to build confidence and grow their skill sets. We value teamwork, authenticity, and innovation, and provide a space for these behaviours to bloom at Compre.

Make an impact in a collaborative environment with some of the best talent in the industry, while enjoying:

• Competitive salary & annual bonus
• A health & wellbeing subsidy (£20 per month) (from Day 1)
• A generous pension (eligible after probationary period)
• Private healthcare from BUPA and a Healthcare Cash Plan from Medicash (from Day 1)
• Life assurance (from Day 1)
• Income protection (from Day 1)
• 25 days annual leave (from Day 1)
• Cycle to work scheme (from Day 1)
• Season ticket loan (interest free) (eligible after probationary period)
• Electric vehicle scheme (eligible after probationary period)
• EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) (from Day 1)
• Learning/study support and reimbursement for professional memberships
• Hybrid working
• Employee socials and recognition programme