About the Role
Join Zurich, a Forbes 2024 ‘World’s Best Employer’ and Fortune’s ‘World’s Most Admired Companies’ for 2025, as a Project Actuary. This role supports the actuarial and financial integration of ClearView Wealth and Zurich, ensuring a smooth transition across reporting, capital management, modelling, data, and regulatory requirements. Contribute to becoming Australia's leading digital insurer in a values-driven, growing global organization committed to making a tangible difference and fostering a sustainable future.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support actuarial work associated with the statutory merger, including the integration of actuarial processes, models, and data.
- Align actuarial methodologies across businesses, working closely with stakeholders to achieve consistent approaches and outcomes.
- Develop and implement new actuarial and reporting processes to meet statutory, regulatory, capital, and Group reporting requirements.
- Support financial reporting activities, including IFRS 17 reporting, results analysis, and delivering insights to support decision-making.
- Assist with purchase price allocation and related reporting, liaising with local, Group, and external stakeholders.
- Review and align capital frameworks, methodologies, and requirements.
- Contribute to planning and forecasting processes, providing actuarial input and supporting Group submissions.
- Partner with data, administration, claims, and finance teams to ensure data integrity and improve understanding of profit and loss drivers.
- Build and enhance data pipelines connecting new data sources with actuarial data warehouses.
- Support experience investigations and assumption-setting exercises.
- Assess actuarial impacts of administration system changes and support related testing activities.
- Drive process improvements and automation initiatives to reduce reporting timelines and improve efficiency.
Requirements
- In-depth knowledge in applying local statutory/regulatory guidelines and rules in the Australian life insurance industry.
- Deep understanding of actuarial processes and techniques in a life insurance context.
- Business acumen - understanding of business concepts, tools, and processes.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- The ability to investigate, analyse, and implement solutions.
Skills
- Actuarial integration
- Reporting
- Capital management
- Modelling
- Data management
- Regulatory requirements
- IFRS 17 reporting
- Purchase price allocation
- Capital frameworks
- Planning and forecasting
- Data integrity
- Data pipelines
- Experience investigations
- Assumption-setting
- Process improvements
- Automation
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Project Actuary
Benefits
- 5 weeks of annual leave (Z leave)
- 15 days of personal/carer’s leave
- Family Care (parental leave)
- Hybrid working arrangement (3 days in office, 2 days remote)
- AUD$500 wellbeing payment per year
- AUD$295 new starter e-voucher for work-from-home setup
- Award-winning training programs
- Global mobility opportunities
- Volunteer opportunities
- State-of-the-art Green Star rated offices
- A tree planted for every new employee
About the Company
- Zurich is a leader in the insurance industry and a Forbes 2024 ‘World’s Best Employer’ and Fortune’s ‘World’s Most Admired Companies’ for 2025.
- The company is on a journey towards a brighter future, focused on employee wellbeing, community, customers, and the planet.
- Zurich is committed to becoming Australia's leading digital insurer.
- It is a values-driven global organization experiencing real growth and transformation.
- Zurich has state-of-the-art Green Star rated offices.
- Recognized with employer of choice awards/memberships including WGEA, Family Inclusive Workplace, Gold AWEI Employer, and Pride in Diversity.
Equal Opportunity
- Zurich is an equal opportunity employer.
- Committed to ensuring a fair and accessible recruitment process for all candidates.
- Encourages candidates requiring special accommodations to notify them at the time of application.
