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Senior Business Actuary – Life Insurance
AthoraBelgiumfull_timeVerifiedPosted 23 Sept 2025
About the role
<p></p><p></p><p>Within the Insurance division, whose mission is to ensure the profitability, development and sale of our products and services and to steer our life insurance portfolio, the Business Change & Monitoring Department steers the Life Insurance business through numerical analyses, provides technical support by carrying out the necessary technical and actuarial studies and analyses business projects with an IT impact.</p><p>Our team of ten are waiting for you to join them!</p><p></p><p><span><b>Your responsibilities</b></span></p><p></p><p>As Senior Business Actuary specialized in life insurance, you will be responsible for carrying out recurring actuarial activities as well as specific projects.</p><p>This includes business inputs for financial closings, portfolio monitoring, policy calculations, pricing offers support and legal declarations.</p><p>Your responsibilities therefore include:</p><ul><li><p><b>Prepare financial, reinsurance, regulatory, and business reports</b> related to closing activities.</p></li><li><p><b>Ensure data readiness for closings</b>, including:</p><ul><li><p>Managing and validating reserves and policy calculations.</p></li><li><p>Identifying and fixing data quality issues.</p></li><li><p>Providing technical support to managers through calculations.</p></li></ul></li><li><p><b>Provide business assumptions</b> for Solvency and IFRS reporting.</p></li><li><p><b>Monitor the Life Insurance portfolio</b>, by:</p><ul><li><p>Conducting technical analysis of portfolio trends.</p></li><li><p>Contributing to budget and target setting as part of the strategic planning process.</p></li></ul></li><li><p><b>Improve processes</b> through automation, simplification, and standardization.</p></li><li><p><b>Support Life Insurance operations</b>, including:</p><ul><li><p>Performing and reviewing calculations (premiums, reserves, capital) for individual and group policies.</p></li><li><p>Building and maintaining calculation tools (Excel, SAS, etc.).</p></li><li><p>Creating and updating models for budgeting, projections, reinsurance, and provisioning.</p></li><li><p>Assisting with pricing and evaluating commercial offers.</p></li></ul></li><li><p><b>Participate in cross-functional projects</b> across the organization.</p></li><li><p>Etc.</p></li></ul><p></p><p><span><b>Your profile</b></span></p><ul><li><p>You have a <b>master’s degree, preferably in mathematics, actuarial sciences</b> or economics.</p></li><li><p>You have <b>at least 3 years’ experience in a similar position</b>, ideally in l<b>ife insurance, reinsurance</b> or bank investment products.</p></li><li><p>You are a <b>Dutch or French speaker </b>with a good command of the other national language and can work effectively in English.</p></li><li><p>You have an analytical mind coupled with the necessary capacity for abstraction to understand results/figures and formulate <span>recommendations. </span></p></li><li><p>You are able to present your analyses effectively, simply and clearly to all the interested parties, including Senior Management.</p></li><li><p>You have <b>Excel (VBA) </b>at your fingertips and are comfortable with Powerpoint.</p></li><li><p>You have a good command of at least <b>one database query language (SAS, SQL</b>); knowledge of Power BI or PowerQuery is a plus.</p></li><li><p>You are flexible and able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.</p></li><li><p>You are autonomous and take initiatives.</p></li><li><p>You have a critical mind and are always looking to improve on what already exists.</p></li><li><p>You naturally have a team spirit.</p></li></ul><p></p><p><span><b>Good reasons to join us</b></span></p><ul><li><p>A permanent employment contract.</p></li><li><p>A company on a human scale within a dynamic group where you can rapidly have an impact.</p></li><li><p>Accessible management close to staff and a pleasant working environment.</p></li><li><p>Many opportunities for development, thanks in particular to our Athora Academy.</p></li><li><p>Balance between professional life and private life with generous holidays (at least 39 days a year), flexible working hours and up to 3 days’ teleworking a week. </p></li><li><p>An attractive salary package plus various fringe benefits.</p></li><li><p>Modern, bright offices conducive to collaboration.</p></li><li><p>A central location in the Porte de Namur district, accessible by train and public transport and with parking facilities available if needed. </p></li><li><p>Last but not least… a sunny terrace, afterworks between colleagues, teambuildings, an annual staff day and many other events to discover… 😉</p></li></ul><p></p><p>If you are looking for a friendly organisation with a human face and attach value to cooperation and helping one another, you have come to the right address.</p><p></p><p>#LI-Hybrid</p><p></p><p></p><p>Apply By:</p>23-09-2025
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