Senior Advisor - Actuarial

Join a high-impact actuarial team shaping the future of group insurance pricing across Canada. As a Senior Advisor - Actuarial, you will play a key role in developing and evolving the pricing foundations that support group insurance across the Canadian market, with a strong focus outside Quebec. Based in Toronto, you will work closely with a Québec-based team in a collaborative and bilingual environment, contributing your expertise to drive profitability, strengthen pricing strategies, and support business growth. This is an opportunity for a technically strong actuary with experience in a carrier environment who is looking to broaden their impact beyond individual pricing decisions and influence the frameworks, assumptions, and models that underpin portfolio-level performance. You will engage with a wide range of stakeholders and bring a strategic lens to actuarial work, directly informing business decisions in a competitive and evolving market. We are looking for someone who combines strong analytical depth with business acumen, thrives in cross-functional environments, and is comfortable influencing decisions at multiple levels of the organization. More specifically, you will be responsible to:

• Develop, adjust, and mantain pricing assumptions used to set premiums for group insurance, taking into account market dynamics outside Québec
• Analyze portfolio profitability and the risk-return balance
• Develop and enhancing actuarial models and analytical tools
• Identify issues, business opportunities, and optimization levers
• Support strategic decision-making through rigorous, action-oriented analysis
• Act as a technical expert and strategic partner to multiple stakeholders (pricing, sales, finance, product management)
• Serve as an advisor to internal teams and decision-makers
• Influence strategic directions through your analysis and market knowledge
• Contribute to the development of best practices and knowledge sharing within the team
• Work on strategic initiatives requiring a strong understanding of business and the Canadian market

What we offer*

• Competitive salary and annual bonus
• 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
• Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement
• Group insurance including telemedicine
• Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment

* Benefits apply based on eligibility criteria.

#LI-Hybrid, #ONAC10*

What you bring to the table

• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics or Statistics
• A minimum of seven years of relevant experience, primarily with an insurer outside Québec
• Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered
• Advanced experience in group insurance actuarial work, ideally with an insurance company
• Intermediate proficiency of French due to the nature of the duties or work tools or because the position involves interactions with french-speaking partners, members and/or clients
• Advanced proficiency of English due to the nature of the duties or work tools or because the position involves interactions with English-speaking partners, members and/or clients
• Advanced technical expertise in pricing and actuarial modeling
• Advanced knowledge of group insurance markets outside Québec 
• Advanced knowledge with modeling tools (advanced Excel, SQL, Python, or equivalent)

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