Actuarial Senior Manager

The Actuarial Senior Manager is responsible for leading large-scale actuarial and advisory engagements for life insurance and reinsurance clients. The role focuses on delivering high-impact projects across actuarial audit support, finance transformation, systems implementation, M&A due diligence, and strategic advisory. This position combines deep actuarial expertise with leadership responsibility, client stewardship, and practice growth contributions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex actuarial audit and advisory engagements, ensuring high standards of quality, governance, and timely execution
• Provide expert actuarial advice on capital optimisation, enterprise risk management, regulatory change, and life insurance product strategy
• Oversee large-scale finance transformation initiatives, including actuarial process automation, data architecture design, and operating model optimisation
• Act as a senior client lead for actuarial engagements, managing scope, delivery outcomes, and long-term client relationships
• Review and challenge actuarial models, methodologies, and assumptions related to valuation, reserving, and capital frameworks
• Lead, mentor, and develop actuarial professionals, strengthening technical capability, leadership depth, and succession planning
• Drive business development initiatives through proposal leadership, market offerings, and actuarial thought leadership development
• Manage multidisciplinary teams across audit, tax, deals, and consulting to deliver integrated, cross-service solutions
• Track emerging accounting, regulatory, and industry developments and assess their implications for clients and internal capabilities

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative discipline
• Fellowship in a recognised actuarial body such as SOA, IFoA, or equivalent preferred
• Minimum of 10 years of actuarial experience within life insurance, reinsurance, or consulting environments
• Advanced knowledge of life insurance products, reserving methodologies, capital frameworks, and regulatory requirements
• Extensive experience using actuarial software and tools such as Prophet, Pathwise, Excel, R, Python, or SAS
• Demonstrated experience leading complex engagements and managing multiple project teams concurrently
• Strong commercial awareness with experience identifying and developing advisory opportunities