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About the Role
The Actuarial Expert leverages strong technical actuarial skills and business acumen to drive critical growth and profitability projects in Wawanesa's critical Alberta Auto product segment. This includes delivering increasingly sophisticated pricing plans, advanced analytics, and insights. We are looking for someone who will drive strong business recommendations, working closely with partner functions from product design and business development to advanced analytics and claims.
Responsibilities
- High degree of mastery over accessing, selecting, and interpreting data.
- Works independently.
- Mastery over multiple types of analytical tools.
- Evaluates procedures and processes, and recommend alternatives or improvements.
- Subject matter expert on valuable analytical methods.
- Strong ability to innovate on complex projects.
- Automates routine tasks to focus on high-leverage work items.
- Able to design and implement robust processes that make work easier for themselves and their peers.
- Develops creative approaches to solve complex issues and assesses impacts of solution options.
- A leader in the actuarial community, potentially including teaching, volunteering, or authoring papers to advance actuarial knowledge, and brings that knowledge and experience to Wawanesa's actuarial community.
- Regularly shares expertise with other actuaries at Wawanesa, contributes to training materials, and facilitates learning opportunities for others.
- Keeps up with professional development opportunities.
- Has a strong network inside and outside of Wawanesa, leveraging rapport with stakeholders to keep people up to date on key projects.
- Leads large-scale, complex, and high-impact projects and initiatives across diverse project teams with minimal oversight, including implementation, training, and documentation.
- Actively contributes to the mentorship, training, and development of actuarial analysts and managers.
- Creates coaching opportunities with analysts and managers to improve their technical abilities.
- Performs thoughtful and relevant peer-review at a high level.
- Uses expertise to raise the skill level of people around them.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or other related discipline.
- More than ten years of actuarial experience is an asset.
- FCAS designation required.
- Advanced communicator, whose communications are trusted.
- Leaves behind useful and functional documentation on projects.
- Strong negotiator and storyteller, using graphs and data to supplement arguments.
- Persuasive with conclusions from their work, often presenting to Director + level.
- Fully proficient with Excel, SQL, R, Python, or other specialized programs.
- Leverages the right program(s) for the job.
- Excellent problem solver, integrating knowledge from actuarial science, math, statistics, and general business to solve advanced problems, potentially offering recommendations for Wawanesa's highest-priority problems.
- Others can trust that the Actuarial Expert has attended to the right details for accuracy, reasonability, and consistency in their conclusions.
- Ability to prioritize and complete multiple concurrent assignments, both individually and as a leader of a group, in a timely manner while proactively keeping leader informed of progress.
- Develops effective and accurate timelines for project planning.
- Ability to work efficiently and co-operatively in a team environment.
- Ability to respectfully challenge the status quo.
- Ability to draw out insights from other team members, leveraging the experience of the full team.
- Ensures team members are applying current industry and professional standards to requirements and decisions.
- Analyzes impact on team's work when changes are made to relevant standards and recommends appropriate actions.
Skills
- Actuarial Science
- Pricing
- Advanced Analytics
- Data Interpretation
- Analytical Tools
- Process Improvement
- Innovation
- Automation
- Problem Solving
- Mentorship
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Storytelling
- Excel
- SQL
- R
- Python
Location
- Winnipeg, MB
- Wawanesa, MB
- Vancouver, BC
- Calgary, AB
- Edmonton, AB
- Lethbridge, AB
- Toronto (North York), ON
- Kitchener, ON
- Ottawa, ON
- Montreal, QC
- Quebec City, QC
- Moncton, NB
- Dartmouth, NS
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
- Part-time
Experience Level
- More than ten years of actuarial experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or other related discipline
- FCAS designation
Salary/Compensations
- $135,000 - $170,000
Benefits
- Annual bonus plan
- Leave of absence top-up programs
- Generous vacation time
- Personal days
- Premium free benefits
- Pension plan
About the Company
- Founded in 1896, The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company is one of Canada’s largest mutual insurers, 100% owned by its members, with more than $4.1 billion in annual revenue and $12.5 billion in assets.
- Headquartered in Winnipeg, Wawanesa is the parent company of Wawanesa Life, which provides life insurance solutions throughout Canada, and Western Financial Group, a leading national distributor of personal and business insurance.
- In March of 2026, Wawanesa entered into an agreement to acquire Everest Insurance Company of Canada to strengthen its commercial insurance capabilities and advance its long-term growth strategy.
- Wawanesa proudly serves more than 1.8 million members and is home to more than 3,000 employees across Canada.
- The company actively gives back to organizations that strengthen communities, donating more than $4 million annually to charitable organizations, including more than $2 million each year in support of people on the front lines of climate change.
- We are currently looking for dedicated, driven, and enthusiastic individuals who thrive in an environment that welcomes change and are looking for an opportunity for diverse experience and advancement on a growing team.
Equal Opportunity
- At Wawanesa, we are committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) and believe that our strength lies in the diversity of our people – this is supported by having a representative workforce.
- We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, including racialized persons, women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, gender-diverse and neurodiverse individuals, and anyone who can contribute to the further diversification of thought and ideas.
- We aim to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all candidates. If you require accommodations during any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out in confidence to jobs@wawanesa.com.
- All Wawanesa job applicants are subject to Wawanesa's Privacy Policy.
- Please note that the recruitment process for this position may involve the use of AI tools to screen, assess, or select applicants. All final decisions are taken or reviewed by human recruiters and human hiring leaders in compliance with all applicable legislation.