Key responsibilities

• Support the ongoing development and use of the approved Solvency II internal model, including model code maintenance, parameterisation, and performance testing
• Produce and review model inputs and outputs, ensuring appropriateness for the entity’s risk profile and exposure
• Support the Risk and Actuarial functions in producing internal model-based risk metrics including stress testing for ORSA and ceded reinsurance assessment
• Engage with the Central Bank of Ireland and the wider regulatory college on the ongoing use and development of the capital model
• Prepare written reports and quantitative output to support model communication and validation
• Ensure governance processes are appropriately followed and data quality standards are maintained

Requirements

• Nearly or newly qualified actuary with experience in a P&C insurance environment
• Knowledge and/or experience of Solvency II, with a good working understanding of capital modelling concepts
• Highly numerate and analytical with a strong academic record
• Excellent Excel skills; VBA experience is preferred, and knowledge of R, Python or ReMetrica is a strong advantage
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to a range of audiences

Interested?

If you’d like to discuss this opportunity in confidence, please contact Kate Henebry:

📧 kate.henebry@raretec.ie📞 085 127 9934

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This is an excellent opportunity to join a collaborative team, gain broad actuarial experience, and work towards full actuarial qualification with the support of a well-established international insurance business.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare quarterly best estimate reserve estimates using established actuarial techniques, with accompanying narrative reporting
• Support Solvency II analysis including Technical Provisions, SCR calculations, ORSA, and QRT reporting to the Central Bank of Ireland
• Assist the IFRS 17 reporting team and contribute to year-end actuarial certification and audit engagement
• Provide actuarial support across internal projects, including granular claims trend analysis and engagement with relevant stakeholders
• Assist with upgrades to reserving software and contribute to the preparation of board and risk management reporting

Requirements

• Degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field
• 2–5 years of experience in a non-life actuarial role
• Strong academic performance and a genuine interest in the non-life insurance sector
• Intermediate or advanced Excel skills; experience with VBA, R, or SQL is an advantage
• Strong attention to detail, effective communication skills, and a collaborative, can-do approach

Salary

The salary for this role is circa €50,000–€60,000, depending on experience.

Interested?

If you’d like to discuss this opportunity in confidence, please contact Kate Henebry:

📧 kate.henebry@raretec.ie📞 085 127 9934

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This is a high-impact opportunity within an established actuarial function, offering responsibility for a significant international liability portfolio and the opportunity to partner closely with senior stakeholders across underwriting, finance, pricing, and broader actuarial teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead reserving oversight and valuation analysis for a complex international liability portfolio
• Review and challenge reserving methodologies, assumptions, and financial impacts, presenting insights to senior leadership
• Partner with underwriting, finance, and pricing teams to support portfolio performance, profitability, and strategic decision-making
• Support business planning, governance, and legal entity reserving requirements
• Drive continuous improvement across reserving processes, reporting, and actuarial analysis while mentoring team members

Requirements

• Qualified Actuary with significant post-qualified experience within non-life insurance
• Strong reserving experience, ideally across complex international or specialty lines
• Proven leadership experience with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders
• Strong commercial mindset with the ability to translate technical actuarial analysis into business insight
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills

Interested?

If you’d like to discuss this opportunity in confidence, please contact:

Grace Caraher

grace.caraher@raretec.ie | +353 1 592 7864

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These full-time hybrid roles are based in Dublin city centre and offer excellent exposure across a range of actuarial disciplines including pricing, financial reporting, risk, operations, and transformation projects. This is a strong opportunity to join a collaborative team and gain experience working on high-impact initiatives within a well-established insurance business.

Key Responsibilities

• Support pricing, valuation, financial reporting, and actuarial modelling activities
• Deliver analysis and insights to support commercial and strategic decision-making
• Contribute to regulatory, business change, and growth-focused projects
• Provide actuarial support to stakeholders across the wider business
• Analyse trends and support the development of innovative insurance solutions

Requirements

• Qualified or Part-Qualified Actuary (or equivalent relevant qualification)
• Experience within life insurance, health insurance, pensions, or broader insurance markets
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Commercial mindset with a collaborative, delivery-focused approach

Interested?

If you’d like to discuss these opportunities in confidence, please contact:

Kate Henebry

📧 kate.henebry@raretec.ie

📞 085 127 9934

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This is a highly visible role with strong cross-functional exposure, offering the opportunity to influence strategic decision-making, support commercial growth, and work alongside senior stakeholders across actuarial, finance, risk, and investments.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and optimise strategic asset allocation across in-force and new business portfolios
• Support balance sheet optimisation, stress testing, and scenario analysis
• Assess investment performance, asset risks, and ALM exposures
• Partner with senior stakeholders across Actuarial, Finance, Risk, Investments, and Commercial teams
• Support the development of innovative investment and hedging strategies
• Enhance asset strategy tools, reporting, methodologies, and governance frameworks
• Monitor market, regulatory, and competitor developments to identify opportunities and risks

Requirements

• Qualified Actuary or similarly relevant professional qualification
• 8+ years’ experience across ALM, investments, capital management, actuarial reporting, or balance sheet optimisation
• Strong understanding of investment risk, asset classes, and ALM principles
• Experience with modelling and analytics tools such as Excel, Python, R, SQL, Prophet, or Power BI
• Strong commercial mindset with excellent stakeholder management skills
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment

Interested?

If you’d like to discuss this opportunity in confidence, please contact:

Grace Caraher 📧 grace.caraher@raretec.ie | 📞 01 592 7864

Alternatively, contact the Raretec team on 01 531 1400

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This role is ideal for a part-qualified or nearly qualified actuary looking to further develop their experience within the P&C market while working closely with global actuarial teams and senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Support quarterly reserving reviews and related reporting processes
• Assist with Solvency II technical provisions and regulatory reporting requirements
• Contribute to IFRS 17 analysis and actuarial modelling activities
• Support planning, forecasting, and reinsurance renewal processes
• Perform actuarial analysis and profitability studies across international portfolios
• Assist with research, methodology development, and enhancement of actuarial processes and controls

Candidate Profile

• Part-qualified or nearly qualified actuary
• 3+ years’ experience within the P&C actuarial market
• Experience across reserving, capital, or regulatory reporting environments
• Exposure to Solvency II and/or IFRS 17 concepts would be advantageous
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in Excel and actuarial/programming tools

Salary

The salary for this role is circa €60,000–€80,000, depending on experience.

For more information or to apply, please contact:

Kate Henebry

📧 kate.henebry@raretec.ie | 📞 +353 (0)1 531 1400

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This is a senior leadership role within a newly established ALM & Balance Sheet Management function, offering the opportunity to shape enterprise-wide balance sheet strategy, capital efficiency, and commercial decision-making across a complex global portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and embedding of a best-in-class balance sheet optimisation capability
• Drive enterprise-wide ALM and balance sheet strategy across capital, liquidity, earnings and investments
• Develop and enhance optimisation analytics, modelling capabilities and reporting frameworks
• Partner with senior stakeholders across Investments, Finance, Risk and Actuarial
• Represent the function at executive committees and key strategic forums

Requirements

• Qualified Actuary with 10+ years post qualification experience
• Strong experience across ALM, investment risk, capital management or balance sheet optimisation
• Exposure to reinsurance or complex insurance environments
• Experience with modelling and analytics tools such as Python, SQL, Prophet, R or Power BI
• Strong commercial mindset with excellent stakeholder management and leadership skills

Interested?

If you’d like to discuss this opportunity in confidence, please contact:

Grace Caraher 📧 grace.caraher@raretec.ie | 📞 01 592 7864

Alternatively, contact the Raretec team on 01 531 1400

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This is an opportunity to work within a highly regarded investment function, supporting a large and sophisticated asset base and engaging directly with Defined Contribution pension schemes across the Irish market. The role offers strong exposure to investment strategy, client engagement and business development within a collaborative and fast-paced environment.

The role

• Produce and enhance high-quality investment reports and client materials
• Support client relationship management and distribution activities, including RFPs and thought leadership content
• Build and maintain relationships with corporate pension schemes, trustees and consultants
• Monitor market trends across Irish and international DC markets
• Communicate investment views, including asset allocation and macroeconomic insights
• Ensure strong adherence to regulatory, governance and compliance standards

About you

• 5+ years’ experience in a similar investment or consulting role
• Strong knowledge of the Irish pensions and investment market
• Professional qualifications such as CFA, AIIPM, CFP or actuarial exams preferred
• Proven experience in client relationship management with an investment focus
• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex investment topics clearly
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented and commercially aware

Interested?

For more information or a confidential discussion, please contact Grace Caraher at grace.caraher@raretec.ie or call 01 592 7864.

Alternatively, contact the Raretec team on 01 531 1400.

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This role will play a key part in supporting the delivery of actuarial reporting requirements, including Solvency II calculations and analysis, while working closely with stakeholders across Actuarial, Finance, and Group functions.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Producing and analysing Own Funds and Solvency Capital Requirement movements through Analysis of Change
• Calculating and reviewing new business metrics, stress testing, scenario analysis and sensitivities
• Supporting the delivery of Solvency II reporting and related actuarial analysis
• Contributing to the development and testing of actuarial models, including Prophet and related data or IT systems
• Assisting with experience investigations and assumption setting, including assessing impacts on Best Estimate Liabilities

Candidate Profile

Suitable candidates will typically demonstrate:

• Qualified or nearly qualified actuary with relevant industry experience
• Strong understanding of Solvency II reporting and actuarial reporting processes
• Experience reviewing and interpreting actuarial reporting results
• Ability to prepare management-level reports and present findings to senior stakeholders
• Knowledge of life and pensions products, particularly unit-linked, with-profits or protection business
• Experience with Prophet modelling and strong analytical skills (Python advantageous)

Salary

The salary for this role is circa €70,000–€100,000, depending on experience.

Interested?

Contact the Raretec team

Kate Henebry – kate.henebry@raretec.ie | 0851279934

Alternatively, contact the Raretec office on (01) 531 1400

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This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced actuary to take on a leadership role within a high-performing team, delivering a wide range of advisory services to (re)insurance clients across the Irish market.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver a broad range of actuarial advisory projects, including reserving, capital modelling, risk management, and financial/regulatory reporting (including Solvency II and IFRS 17)
• Support multidisciplinary engagements such as M&A, due diligence, ESG, and enterprise risk management initiatives
• Contribute to actuarial function activities, including reserving reviews and Head of Actuarial Function support
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, ensuring high-quality service delivery
• Manage, mentor, and develop junior team members, while supporting recruitment and business development activities

Requirements

• Qualified actuary (IFoA, Society of Actuaries or equivalent) with strong Non-Life (re)insurance experience
• Good understanding of the Irish (re)insurance market, with the ability to apply actuarial knowledge commercially
• Proven experience managing teams, projects, and senior stakeholders
• Experience in risk management and/or financial reporting, particularly Solvency II and/or IFRS 17
• Consulting or audit experience and/or an established market network would be advantageous

Interested?

Candidates interested in this role at Manager level should contact:

Kate Henebry | 📧 kate.henebry@raretec.ie | 📞 085 127 9934

Candidates interested at Senior Manager level should contact:

Grace Caraher | 📧 grace.caraher@raretec.ie | 📞 01 592 7864

Alternatively, please contact the main Raretec line on 01 531 1400.

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This role provides excellent exposure to diverse actuarial assignments and the chance to build strong technical and client-facing capabilities while working alongside experienced professionals.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to projects relating to IFRS17 implementation, Appointed Actuary work, actuarial valuation, pricing and product development
• Work on actuarial modelling assignments and the design of valuation and Asset Liability Management (ALM) frameworks
• Support Merger & Acquisition (M&A) projects and due diligence reviews
• Perform evaluations in areas relating to financial risk, product distribution and capital management
• Utilise advanced financial modelling approaches and systems
• Contribute to wider actuarial and financial services initiatives as required

Required Knowledge & Experience

• Experience within a life actuarial team or an actuarial consulting firm
• Qualified with either the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (UK), the Society of Actuaries (US) or the Institute of Actuaries of Australia
• Good knowledge of Prophet software
• Experience in Data & Analytics, Gen AI/Machine Learning, and Open Source coding
• Knowledge of IFRS17 and/or Solvency II reporting frameworks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Required Knowledge & Experience

• Experience within a life actuarial team or an actuarial consulting firm
• Qualified with either the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (UK), the Society of Actuaries (US) or the Institute of Actuaries of Australia
• Good knowledge of Prophet software
• Experience in Data & Analytics, Gen AI/Machine Learning, and Open Source coding
• Knowledge of IFRS17 and/or Solvency II reporting frameworks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Interested?

For more information or a confidential discussion, please contact:

📩 Kate Henebry – kate.henebry@raretec.ie | 📞 085 127 9934

Alternatively, you can contact the Raretec main line on 01 531 1400

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The team provides a broad range of actuarial consulting and assurance services across the non-life insurance sector, working on both local and international engagements. This role offers excellent exposure to diverse projects and the opportunity to work in a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the successful delivery of actuarial and multidisciplinary projects
• Take responsibility for client relationships and the performance of internal project teams
• Drive the production of high-quality client deliverables with a strong emphasis on collaboration
• Assist with the management, mentoring and development of junior actuarial colleagues
• Contribute to research and development initiatives to support technical excellence
• Adopt an account management mindset, identifying and responding to client needs
• Lead client interactions and build a strong external market profile

Required Knowledge & Experience

• Qualified actuary with at least 5 years post-qualification experience, ideally including reserving or related non-life actuarial experience
• Excellent technical and analytical skills
• Experience with non-life actuarial software such as RESQ, WinRes or Arius
• Strong awareness of and interest in the key challenges facing the non-life insurance industry
• Experience in at least two of the following areas: IFRS17, Solvency II, financial reporting, audit, capital or actuarial consulting

Salary

The salary for this role is circa €110,000–€130,000, depending on experience, with an additional bonus and benefits package.

Interested?

For more information or a confidential discussion, please contact:

📩 Grace Caraher – grace.caraher@raretec.ie | 📞 01 592 7864

Alternatively, you can contact the Raretec main line on 01 531 1400

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