Senior Consultant - Life Actuarial Domain

Job description

Role name and description - Life Actuary (Staff) - US LH (Core)

EY GDS Consulting Global Delivery Services is one of EY's greatest global assets - a network of service delivery centers that provide high-quality services at a competitive cost for all EY's client-serving and enablement teams.

Every day, we combine our subject matter expertise with our technology and automation skills to develop new solutions that deliver greater value for EY. If you have a passion for enabling world-class actuarial services globally to solve the most complex challenges in the financial services industry, come join our dynamic GDS team. We are looking for a Senior Consultant in our Business Consulting Practice for the Life Actuarial domain.

The opportunity:

We are looking for Staff within the Core Life Actuarial team delivering actuarial solutions and working closely with Manager/Senior Manager in EY's global network of insurance sector and risk consulting professionals.

Our clients are large multinationals, conglomerate groups, and domestic insurers within the life insurance sector. The team delivers sustainable benefits to our clients through enhancing business decisions using improved and effective applications of core actuarial principles and methodologies within applicable standard practice.

Our growing team of professionals come from diverse backgrounds, all committed to being long-term trusted advisors to our clients. This role will offer exposure to diverse fields comprising assets and liabilities within the life actuarial domain.

Your key responsibilities:

• Responsible for delivering high-quality results and generating effective and impactful solutions
• Be responsible for ensuring all engagements are delivered within time
• Deliver engagements in line with our values and commitment to quality, consistently driving projects to completion and ensuring that work is of high standard

We are looking for individuals who have a proactive attitude and are seeking the opportunity for personal and professional growth, leveraging and supporting our global network. AI (Artificial Intelligence) literacy will be an added advantage.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Good analytical skills
• Ability to do investigations in models/reporting process and independently solve problems
• Willingness to learn and apply learning actively in project work
• Self-motivation and proactiveness in driving project
• Willingness to travel to meet and work with clients
• Strong regulatory skills - US Stat/US GAAP/Principal Based Reserving (PBR)
• Strong product knowledge - Universal Life (UL), ULSG, Indexed UL, Variable UL, Fixed Index Annuities (FIA), Variable Annuities (VA)
• Strong technical skills on reserving for short-tail and long-tail business as well
• Strong system skills - proficiency with SQL, Python, VBA, Alteryx, Power BI
• AI literacy - good knowledge of GenAI, Agentic AI would be an added advantage

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Work experience - preferably 2-3 years in the same domain

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Preferred actuarial degree
• Strong academic background with a bachelor's degree, ideally business, actuarial, or finance related, supplemented ideally with a professional qualification
• Overseas exposure (especially US market experience)
• Understanding of US Life/Annuity products

What we look for:

• Good communication skills
• English fluent in speaking
• Good English writing skills
• Experience of supporting teams with high-quality timely delivery, actively building industry relationships, and promoting a collaborative culture when working with colleagues