
Actuarial Associate, Insurance Risk Modeling
Des Moines · New York · USD 120,000-130,000 · 4+ years experience · Posted Oct 8, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 4+ years experience
- Location
- Des Moines · New York
- Salary
- USD 120,000-130,000 · Base salary
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship not offered
About the role
- The Actuarial Associate will join the GA Risk modeling team to architect, stress-test, and enhance insurance liability models.
- This role involves owning models end-to-end to influence pricing, valuation, hedging, and balance sheet management decisions.
- The position requires integrating AI into daily workflows and collaborating closely with leadership on institutional transactions and new product launches.
Responsibilities
- Develop and enhance insurance liability models in the liability modeling platform.
- Perform liability stresses under GAAP, Stat, Econ, and Bermuda lenses.
- Onboard institutional transactions onto the Risk platform.
- Support new product launches and maintain risk models with rate changes and new features.
- Run validation and control reviews of actuarial and financial models.
- Critically assess methodologies and assumptions behind models.
- Build quantitative models and analytical tools to challenge existing risk management and pricing practices.
- Communicate findings and implications to Risk leadership and business stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in quantitative disciplines.
- 4+ years of experience in a diversified life and annuity, financial, or actuarial consulting environment.
- 4+ years of experience modeling insurance products with a track record on complex products.
- Clear and compelling communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred qualifications
- Professional designation such as FSA, ASA, or CFA
- Working knowledge of life and annuity products
- Prior hedging or ALM experience
- Strong Python skills
- Experience with MG-ALFA
- Experience with Pathwise
- Experience with PolySystem
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus
Workplace
- Role is based in Des Moines or New York.
Skills
- GAAP
- Market Risk
- MG-ALFA
- Pathwise
- PolySystem
- Python
- ALM
- Hedging