Senior Actuary

Liberty General Insurance Berhad; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 250,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Liberty General Insurance Berhad is seeking a senior actuary to lead the APAC Actuarial Solutions team within the Liberty International Insurance APAC (LII APAC). You will shape strategy and drive data-driven actuarial and data science capabilities across diverse markets.

The role requires deep actuarial expertise, leadership experience, and the ability to translate complex data into actionable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Senior actuary with leadership experience in insurance.
• Strong data engineering and analytics background.
• Familiarity with IFRS17 and risk-based capital concepts.
• Ability to design scalable actuarial solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the ADSS solutions roadmap for LII APAC.
• Drive scalable solutions for accurate data insights.
• Champion customer-centric data products and analytics.
• Collaborate with global teams to align actuarial approaches.
• Mentor and develop actuarial talent across markets.
• Ensure regulatory compliance and quality standards.
• Partner with data science, pricing, and reserving as needed.

Skills

Actuarial leadership

Data engineering

IFRS17 knowledge

Risk management

Regulatory knowledge

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Programming (Python/Java)

NoSQL databases

ETL pipelines

Tools

Python

Java

ETL tools

SQL databases

Job description

The role will lead the Liberty International Insurance APAC (LII APAC) Actuarial Solutions team. The role interprets and influences the organisational and business unit strategic vision to prioritise, design, develop and continuously improve solutions that enable critical Actuarial and Data Science (ADSS) capabilities.

Role Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance strategic vision and roadmaps for ADSS solutions that enable LII APAC business unit, driving continuous improvement in processes and delivery.
• Lead the creation of efficient, scalable solutions that accelerate speed to market while ensuring accuracy and compliance with relevant technical standards.
• Champion customer-centric priorities, ensuring internal and external stakeholders benefit from actionable, high quality data insights.
• Influence the strategic direction of actuarial initiatives across diverse APAC markets, products, and perspectives.
• Support efforts to build ADSS capabilities, partnering with ADSS peers across GRS to define, champion, and execute continuous improvement efforts, tailoring to meet the unique needs of the business.
• Collaborate with peers to ensure consistency of relevant actuarial approaches and assumptions, adherence to best practices.
• Develop and nurture key technical actuarial talent and drive improvement in the overall technical ADSS capability of the business.
• Support or lead the provision of other ADSS capabilities as needed including but not limited to Pricing, Legal Entity, Data Science and US GAAP Reserving.
• Adherence to all relevant regulatory requirements forms part of your role.
• Advanced numerical and analytical skills
• Advanced attention to detail and accuracy skills
• Advanced prioritization and time management skills
• Proven relationship building, verbal/written communications and presentation skills
• Strong ability to drive for results and focus on outcomes
• Strong ability to show initiative and be proactive
• Strong ability to form quality opinions and make sound decisions based on logical reasoning
• Experienced people leader

Role Experience and Skills

• 10+ years' experience in the insurance industry
• Strong actuarial and data engineering expertise, with hands-on experience in actuarial solution design, development and execution. Experience in IFRS17, Risk Based Capital, Reserving is desirable but not a requirement.
• Strategic mindset and demonstrated relationship building ability
• Good knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements, insurance lines and markets
• Good knowledge of insurance operations and ability to engage with multi-functional teams
• Proven track record of delivery with a focus on enablement through building efficient, high quality and repeatable processes and systems.
• Understanding of how to work effectively in global and matrix organizations
• Experience in coding for data management, data warehousing, or other data environments e.g. working in NoSQL implementation, ETL, Java, scripting languages (Python, Perl, Shell), and the Hadoop stack is desirable.