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About the Role

This role sits within the Valuation Group of the Integrated Reporting Department, responsible for delivering high-quality actuarial valuation results for capital and embedded value reporting. The team supports annual business planning and quarterly forecasting, with a focus on economic assumptions setting, variance analysis, and ensuring alignment between valuation outputs and pricing profitability metrics. This role offers a unique opportunity to gain end-to-end exposure across IFRS, capital and embedded value reporting, providing a holistic view of financial performance. The position combines technical actuarial work with business impact, including direct contribution to key financial metrics and close interaction with senior stakeholders across actuarial, finance, and investment functions.

Responsibilities

Lead economic assumption setting and maintain portfolio rate models in alignment with Group governance frameworks
Review pricing profitability for new products and provide actuarial opinions to senior stakeholders
Perform reconciliation between pricing and valuation models to ensure consistency of profitability metrics
Analyze economic variances and provide insights to support the management of financial volatility
Contribute to business planning, forecasting, and scenario analysis under changing economic conditions
Contribute to Group-wide transformation initiatives to enhance automation, modeling efficiency, and reporting transparency
Collaborate with actuarial, pricing, and investment teams to ensure consistency between pricing, valuation and reporting outputs

Requirements

6–10 years of actuarial experience, preferably with a focus on actuarial valuation or asset-liability management (ALM)
Fellowship or progress toward fellowship in a recognized international actuarial professional body
Strong technical expertise in actuarial concepts, particularly in Economic capital, and embedded value (TEV or MCEV) frameworks.
Hands-on experience with actuarial modeling tools (e.g. Prophet), advanced Excel skills, and end-to-end valuation processes
Business-level proficiency in spoken and written English
Strong team player with the ability to work effectively in a diverse, cross-functional environment
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with accountants and finance teams to reach alignment in economic assumptions and asset valuation
Self-motivated with a proactive approach to problem-solving and the application of actuarial knowledge
Ability to articulate and translate actuarial analysis and business insights for non-technical stakeholders
Exposure to pricing, finance, investment, or project management disciplines is an added score

Skills

Actuarial valuation
Asset-liability management (ALM)
Economic capital
Embedded value (TEV or MCEV) frameworks
Actuarial modeling tools (e.g. Prophet)
Advanced Excel skills
End-to-end valuation processes
English proficiency
Interpersonal skills
Communication skills
Problem-solving
Japanese language proficiency (advantageous)

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time

Experience Level

6-10 years

Education Level

Fellowship or progress toward fellowship in a recognized international actuarial professional body

Salary/Compensations

7.2 million JPY -
Variable bonus

Benefits

Special consecutive paid leave
Retirement age 65 (re-employment system up to 70)
Retirement benefit system (defined benefit corporate pension, defined contribution corporate pension)
Health insurance, Welfare pension insurance, Employment insurance, Workers' accident insurance
Welfare service (Benefit One)
Company housing system
Commuting allowance (full amount)
Training system (new employee training, e-learning, external training cost support, actuary development system, school/correspondence course cost support/discount system, etc.)

About the Company

FWD Group is a pan-Asian life and health insurance business serving approximately 40 million customers across 10 markets.
The company's customer-led and tech-enabled approach aims to deliver innovative propositions, easy-to-understand products, and a simpler insurance experience.
Established in 2013, FWD operates in some of the fastest-growing insurance markets globally with a vision to change the way people feel about insurance.
FWD Group is listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the stock code 1828.