Senior Life Actuarial Associate: Client‑Facing & Impactful

PwC South Africa; Dublin; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

PwC Ireland is seeking an accomplished actuary to join our life insurance practice. You will work with leading clients, applying analytical skills to solvency and financial reporting challenges, and contribute to building client relationships.

The role offers exposure to a wide range of projects, mentoring junior staff, and opportunities to develop professionally in a supportive, inclusive environment with strong training from senior staff.

Qualifications

• Qualified actuary with 3+ years of relevant experience in the life insurance or reinsurance market.
• Solvency II and/or financial reporting experience are key.
• Experience of the Irish life (re)insurance market is an advantage.
• An ability to communicate our analysis and insights to clients in plain English.
• An ability to develop and mentor junior staff, including technical training and performance management.
• A desire to build out our propositions so that we meet a client need and develop a viable, commercial, professional service.

Responsibilities

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self‑awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behaviour to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm’s code of ethics and business conduct.

Skills

Actuarial modelling

Analytical thinking

Communication

Project management

Mentoring juniors

Tools

MS Excel

Word

Actuarial modelling

Job description

PwC Ireland is seeking an accomplished actuary to join our life insurance practice. You will work with leading clients, applying analytical skills to solvency and financial reporting challenges, and contribute to building client relationships.

The role offers exposure to a wide range of projects, mentoring junior staff, and opportunities to develop professionally in a supportive, inclusive environment with strong training from senior staff.