Job ID: 9963
Employment Type: Existing Role
Working Business Language: English. This role is considered a head-office role and will be required to communicate with internal stakeholders across Canada where the primary business language utilized is English.
Salary: At Wawanesa, salary is only one component of a holistic, comprehensive and competitive offering that we provide to our employees. In addition to salary, full-time and part-time permanent employees are eligible for an annual bonus plan, leave of absence top-up programs and provided with generous vacation time, personal days, premium free benefits and pension plan.
The salary offered for this role is determined with consideration to various factors, including but not limited to: your work location, local labour market conditions, external market salary data, internal pay equity and the knowledge, skills, experience and anticipated proficiency in the role. The salary offered is estimated to be within the following range: $80,000 - $130,000. Candidates with salary expectations outside of the range are still encouraged to apply.
About Us
At Wawanesa, we offer a hybrid work environment that offers flexibility to our employees in balancing in-office (2 days per week OR 15 hours per week in a Wawanesa office) and remote work. You may work from any of the following locations: 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.
The Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company (“Wawanesa Mutual”), founded in 1896, is one of Canada’s largest mutual insurers, with over $3.5 billion in annual revenue and assets of $10 billion (CAD). Wawanesa Mutual, with its National Headquarters in Winnipeg, is the parent company of Wawanesa Life, which provides life insurance products and services throughout Canada, and Western Financial Group, which distributes personal and business insurance across Canada. Wawanesa proudly serves more than 1.7 million members in Canada, and we are home to more than 3,300 employees distributed across the Canadian regions and communities where we operate. We give back to organizations that strengthen communities, donating more than $3.5 million annually to charitable organizations, including over $2 million annually in support of people on the front lines of climate change. We are also proud to be recognized as one of Manitoba’s Top Employers. To learn more visit wawanesa.com.
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.
Wawanesa is looking for an exceptional candidate to take on the role of Actuarial Consultant or Senior Actuarial Analyst in our Commercial Lines Pricing Excellence team. As a member of Commercial Pricing Excellence, you will play a key role in building the data, modelling, and reporting foundations that will underpin improvements to pricing sophistication and portfolio management across all Commercial Pricing. You will be responsible for applying your technical expertise and business acumen to design flexible and extensible solutions to a variety of business problems and collaborating with other product pricing teams to deliver strategic priorities.
Note: We are open to hiring at multiple levels Senior Actuarial Analyst, Actuarial Consultant, or Senior Actuarial Consultant level.
- Researches, extracts, and manipulates complex data from relevant sources, and assesses data quality.
- Supports the business and overall team by performing analyses/reviews and completing ad-hoc requests/special projects in a timely manner with some support from peers and leaders.
- Evaluates procedures and processes, and suggests potential alternatives or improvements.
- Evaluates existing processes to find areas for increased efficiency.
- Identifies opportunities for automation of routine tasks.
- Suggests new approaches to problem solving and assess impacts of solution options with some support from leaders.
- Maintains knowledge of current industry news and trends, and considers their impact on Wawanesa.
- Encouraged to represent Wawanesa at external events that may include universities, actuarial clubs, industry organizations, and charitable causes.
- Commits to professional development and continuous experiential learning to build cross-functional knowledge, technical skills, and mastery in competencies.
- Provides regular project updates to stakeholders.
- Builds trust with teams around the actuarial function. Knows when to ask for the expertise of others.
- Actively contributes to the mentorship, training and development of actuarial analysts.
- Reviews analysis of peers and provides thoughtful feedback on reasonableness, completeness and accuracy.
- Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or other related discipline.
- More than two years of actuarial experience.
- Working towards ACAS designation; 4 CAS exams an asset.
- Advanced knowledge of actuarial science, mathematics, probability, statistics, principles of finance and business, and strong ability to apply this knowledge to problems in insurance.
- Ability to proactively identify issues and initiate actions.
- Strong attention to detail when performing analysis with minimal technical errors.
- Strong oral and written communication skills, demonstrating the ability to convey complex business and actuarial terminology and insights that are meaningful to and well received by the intended audience.
- Intermediate to advanced proficiency with Python, SQL, R, and/or other related software/programming languages.
- Experience with machine learning techniques an asset.
- Experience working with AWS tools such as S3, Athena, Redshift and Glue, or equivalent tools in a different cloud environment an asset.
- Experience in Commercial Pricing an asset.
Diversity Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
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 [email protected].
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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.
