Consultant, Business Consulting Risk

About the Role

The role involves executing projects in the Actuarial space within the General Insurance – Global Market - Business Consulting Risk domain. The team advises clients on areas including Reserving, Pricing, M&A Support, Capital requirements and Solvency Framework, IFRS Reporting, Business Planning, Reinsurance Structure and Optimization, and Regulatory Compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute projects in the Actuarial space.
• Play a proactive role within a multi-disciplinary EY team supporting client engagements.
• Support engagements across Reserving, Product development and pricing, Statutory reporting, Solvency assessment, IFRS17 implementation, and Business planning.
• Build appropriate Excel models for projects, incorporating client product features and relevant regulations.
• Lend support on strands of research and Specialisms work (e.g., Solvency II updates, IFRS17) to provide key insights.
• Develop cutting-edge proposals for winning new clients and engagements.
• Work closely with the team to develop consistent standards and best practice.
• Share knowledge effectively by submitting to the knowledge database.
• Contribute to wider opportunities within EY and raise its profile externally (e.g., writing articles for The Actuary).
• Develop and maintain deep technical knowledge in Excel modelling skills.
• Present internally and externally on areas of technical specialist knowledge.
• Develop reports and presentations for the client.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Proven ability to balance priorities and manage competing demands to agreed deadlines and quality.
• Ability to give/receive constructive feedback.
• Self-motivated, uses own initiative, and is outcome-focused.
• Deals constructively with uncertainty and ambiguity.
• Broad consulting and project management skills.
• Excel (deep technical knowledge in modelling skills)
• R, Python, SAS, SQL (working knowledge)

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience of 6 months + into General Insurance (Actuarial domain).
• Cleared minimum of 4 actuarial exams.
• Good working knowledge of the relevant actuarial concepts and methodologies.
• Knowledge of the latest accounting standard (IFRS17).
• Confidence in speaking and expressing views through a variety of platforms like publications (internal/external), seminars etc.
• Strong communication, documentation, facilitation, relationship-building, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Highly flexible, adaptable, and creative.
• Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work in a collaborative manner to provide services across multiple client departments.
• Practical approach to solving issues and complex problems.
• Ability to deliver insightful and practical solutions.
• Agile, curious, mindful, and able to sustain positive energy.