Our client, a leading international commercial lines and reinsurance insurer, is seeking to appoint a Reserving Second Opinion Actuary to join its Risk Management function. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced P&C actuary to step into a highly visible role providing independent oversight and challenge across complex global insurance and reinsurance portfolios.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform independent reserving and technical valuation analyses across assigned lines of business, including selection and challenge of assumptions and methodologies.
- Provide an independent second-opinion on technical reserves and profitability to senior management, including half-year and full-year reserve assessments.
- Identify areas of uncertainty within reserve estimates and assess their potential financial and risk impacts.
- Act as a subject matter expert on reserving matters, supporting profitability reviews, deep-dive analyses, and business planning activity.
- Present and clearly explain reserving conclusions to actuarial, underwriting, and risk stakeholders.
- Support regulatory and internal initiatives (including IFRS 17) and ensure reserving processes meet governance and policy standards.
Required Experience & Qualifications
- Qualified actuary with at least 2 years’ post-qualification experience or equivalent.
- Strong P&C actuarial reserving experience, particularly within commercial and corporate long-tail business.
- Solid technical modelling capability, with advanced Excel skills and experience using SQL, VBA, and ideally Python.
- Proven ability to review, challenge, and validate actuarial assumptions and methodologies.
- Experience working across insurance and reinsurance portfolios; reinsurance exposure is a strong advantage.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to present technical conclusions clearly to senior stakeholders.
Apply or Enquire
For further information or a confidential discussion, please contact:
Grace Caraher
📧 grace.caraher@raretec.ie | 📞 01 592 7864
Alternatively, contact the Raretec main line on 01 531 1400.