Senior Actuarial Analyst | Actuarial Systems

AIA Hong Kong; Auckland; On-site; NZD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider is seeking a technically driven actuary or senior actuarial analyst in Auckland, New Zealand. This role emphasizes Prophet model coding, data analysis, and project management within a dynamic actuarial team. Candidates should have strong leadership skills, experience in actuarial roles, and a quantitative background. AIA offers competitive benefits, inclusive workplace culture, and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Opportunities for internal mobility

Competitive employee benefits including insurances

Membership to AIA Vitality health programme

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills and proven ability to engage and influence non-actuarial stakeholders.
• Detailed knowledge across at least one aspect of actuarial work.
• Proven strong technical skills including software skills and analytical skills.
• Strong financial services industry experience ideally in life or health insurance.
• Strong understanding of NZ life insurance legislative and statutory requirements.
• At least four years experience in actuarial roles.

Responsibilities

• Lead and provide support to projects and business-as-usual tasks across actuarial work.
• Mentor actuarial analysts.
• Extract, reconcile, manipulate and analyse data to develop insights.
• Produce and present insights to stakeholders.
• Build and maintain relationships across various teams.

Job description

Overview

BELIEVE IN BETTER
Do you believe in leading the way to a better, healthier, more sustainable future? At AIA we’ve started an exciting movement to create a healthier, more sustainable future for everyone. It's finding new ways to not only better people's lives, but to better the communities and environments we live in. As the largest listed company on the HKSE, we’ve been proudly making a difference for people and communities across Asia for over a century. And we build on this every day with our ambition to engage one billion people to live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives by 2030. Our leaders play a vital part in guiding teams to thrive and to help more people live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives, build healthier societies and cultivate healthier environments that better everyone.

If you sound like that leader, read on.

The opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for a technically driven actuary or senior actuarial analyst to make a meaningful impact within a high-performing, project-oriented actuarial team. The role centres around the Prophet model, with a strong emphasis on Prophet coding and technical delivery, supporting both model enhancements and complex actuarial projects. You’ll work closely with internal stakeholders to define requirements, develop implementation plans, and influence delivery outcomes.

The team operates in a dynamic environment, managing a wide range of change requests and competing priorities, which requires adaptability, strong problem-solving skills, and strategic prioritisation. Team members rotate across projects and remain closely connected, offering exposure to diverse workstreams and fostering a collaborative culture. In addition to Prophet, you’ll gain hands-on experience with Python and SQL coding, advanced Excel tools, and contribute to building innovative solutions within the VBI framework. Your technical expertise and insights will directly shape business outcomes and support strategic decision-making, making this a highly rewarding role for someone seeking both challenge and influence.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and provide support to projects (including management of scope, timelines, deliverables, project team and stakeholders) and to business-as-usual tasks across all aspects of actuarial work including:

  • experience investigations

  • valuations

  • financial and regulatory reporting

  • investments

  • reinsurance

  • finance

  • solvency and capital management

  • risk management

  • system changes and conversions

  • other broad business initiatives (as required)

• Mentor actuarial analysts

• Extract, reconcile, manipulate and analyse data and develop insights and results for actuaries, other finance colleagues, and external reinsurance partners

• Review work completed by actuarial analysts

• Produce, document and present value-add insights and results to internal and external stakeholders

• Communicate and present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Assist in preparation of actuarial reports

• Engage with teams across AIA and contribute to the broader business

• Build and maintain effective relationships across Financial and Actuarial, Product, Customer and Risk, as well as with external reinsurance partners

• Proactively take ownership of emerging issues and challenges

• Apply software skills including AIA systems, SQL, MS Office package, Prophet Suite, SAS, Python and R

• Maintain existing tools, models, systems, processes, methodologies and documentation and proactively contribute to their improvement and development

• Understand and adhere to AIA’s risk management framework and the relevant policies

Ideally, you’ll bring

• Strong leadership skills and proven ability to engage and influence non-actuarial stakeholders and business partners

• Detailed knowledge and understanding of theory and practice across at least one aspect of actuarial work

• Proven strong technical skills including software skills (including AIA systems, SQL, MS Office package, Prophet Suite, SAS, Python and R) and analytical skills

• Strong financial services industry experience (ideally life or health insurance)

• Strong understanding of NZ life insurance legislative and statutory requirements

• Strong understanding of AIA’s commercial environment (including products, markets and competitors)

• At least four years experience in actuarial roles

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification with quantitative background (e.g. mathematics, statistics or engineering)

• Passed Part 1 and Part 2 actuarial exams, or their equivalent

• Comply with continuing professional development requirements and professional standards of the relevant actuarial body

Why choose AIA?

At AIA, we believe in empowering every one of our people to find their 'better'. We do this by offering:

• Opportunities to grow within the business through internal mobility

• Competitive employee benefits that include insurances, an Employee Share Purchase Scheme and an extra day of leave each quarter to recharge

• Membership to AIA Vitality, our health and wellbeing programme that provides tools and rewards to thrive

• A supportive and inclusive workplace

• Flexible working arrangements

If you believe you can help guide us towards a better tomorrow, apply now!

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