Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
The Senior Longevity Actuary role at Barnett Waddingham focuses on supporting clients primarily with longevity and life insurance risk work. You will deliver projects across a diverse range of areas including longevity risk management, pricing and structuring of risk transfer solutions, experience analysis, assumption setting, and broader actuarial and strategic support for insurers and reinsurers. A key part of the role is building strong client relationships and supporting the winning of new engagements while delivering high quality work across multiple assignments.

Typical responsibilities include providing high quality longevity and demographic support to insurance and reinsurance clients in the UK and globally, either on a consulting basis or through secondment, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget. You will support the development of longevity propositions and identify further consultancy opportunities with new and existing clients. Collaboration across the business, particularly with risk transfer teams and longevity specialists, is essential to deliver cross-practice projects. Additionally, you will promote insurance offerings through speaking engagements and contributing to written materials such as articles.

Barnett Waddingham is part of Howden, a global insurance group with a people-first culture and employee ownership at its heart. The company values entrepreneurial spirit, inclusivity, and a collaborative international team of 23,000 employees across 56 countries. This role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment with a strong culture focused on career progression, work/life balance, and sustainability.

Experience
- Proven experience in longevity or other demographic risk, either in-house at an insurer or reinsurer, or within a consulting environment
- Confident project lead with strong appreciation for audit trails and controls
- Track record of planning and delivering projects on schedule and within budget
- Excellent consulting skills and flexibility to work in a changing environment
- Ability to manage multiple and sometimes conflicting demands
- Experience mentoring and coaching junior colleagues

About you
- Strong personal values including commitment to professional and ethical behaviour
- A strong team player able to quickly build rapport and establish effective working relationships
- Ability to develop and maintain a strong network of contacts within the life insurance industry
- Commercial awareness and ability to generate new propositions and deliver practical solutions to clients
- Willingness and ability to travel as required

Qualifications
While no specific qualifications are listed, candidates are expected to have relevant actuarial credentials and a strong technical background in longevity or demographic risk. Candidates who do not meet every requirement but demonstrate potential and willingness to develop with support are encouraged to apply.