Senior Risk Actuary

North Co Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 126,000 - 154,000; Full time

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Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Senior Actuary to work with a London Market insurer. This role offers up to £140,000, plus bonuses and benefits, and promotes hybrid working. Candidates should have strong risk management experience in an insurance environment, engaging with senior stakeholders on complex risk issues. Responsibilities include providing risk challenge, delivering analysis for board-level decision-making, and supporting governance frameworks. Ideal candidates are qualified actuaries or have equivalent technical risk experience.

Qualifications

• Experience within an insurance environment with a focus on quantitative risk oversight.
• Ability to engage with senior stakeholders both technical and non-technical.
• Exposure to solvency, capital, and enterprise risk frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Provide independent risk challenge across insurance activities.
• Deliver risk analysis and reporting for decision-making.
• Act as a trusted advisor on technical and commercial risk issues.
• Contribute to risk governance frameworks and control structures.

Skills

Risk management experience

Strong communication skills

Structured approach to risk management

Commercial awareness

Education

Qualified actuary or equivalent experience

Job description

North Co Recruitment are working with a London Market insurer to appoint a senior actuary into a second-line risk function, focused on quantitative risk oversight across the business. This is a high-impact role providing independent risk challenge, strategic insight and governance input across core underwriting, pricing, capital and financial risk activities.

What you’ll do

• Provide independent risk challenge to first-line functions across insurance activities.
• Deliver risk analysis, insight and reporting to support executive and board-level decision making.
• Lead deep-dive reviews into material risk areas and emerging risk themes.
• Contribute to enterprise risk processes, stress testing and solvency assessments.
• Support the evolution of risk governance frameworks and control structures.
• Work closely with senior stakeholders across actuarial, underwriting, finance and capital functions.
• Act as a trusted risk advisor on complex technical and commercial risk issues.

What we’re looking for

• Strong risk management experience within an insurance environment.
• Background in insurance and financial risk, with exposure to solvency, capital and enterprise risk frameworks.
• Experience providing independent challenge and oversight to first-line functions.
• Qualified actuary preferred, or equivalent depth of technical risk experience.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage senior technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Structured, pragmatic and commercially aware approach to risk management.
• Interest in complex risk environments within specialty insurance / London Market contexts.

Salary: Up to £140,000, plus bonus & benefits.

Location: London, Hybrid working.

Please note, the client is unable to offer sponsorship for this opportunity.

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