Actuarial System Analyst

Company Description

• Enjoy work-life balance with flexible working options
• Thrive in a workplace where we tackle challenges together
• Work alongside diverse, passionate colleagues and leaders

Why join us?

Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we’ve been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Dai-ichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services.

Together with our Partners, we’re helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities.

Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance.

So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer.

Job Description

Join TAL’s Finance business unit as an Actuarial System Analyst. The Actuarial System team has the responsibility of maintaining, developing, and enhancing our Actuarial Systems in support of liability and capital valuations, embedded value, and business planning.

As an Actuarial System Analyst, your primary responsibilities include developing and enhancing Prophet models to align with defined requirements, integrating up-to-date regulatory interpretations and recommendations from external advisors, optimising model point files, and standardising key modelling methodologies across various models.

This is a 6-month fixed term contract, working flexibly from our Sydney office.

In this role you will:

• Prepare Model design documents based on project/user requirements
• Perform technical review of design documents against project/user requirements and TAL prophet coding standards
• Prepare development environment and perform Prophet coding
• Provide end user support during UAT (explaining and demonstrating new functionality)
• Analyse and specify data requirements for prophet model inputs
• Modify data flow processes (primarily DCS or SQL) to maintain system integration points in line with model changes
• Contribute to the design and build of a results database for prophet model output which meets Actuarial end user reporting requirements

Qualifications

• Tertiary degree in a financial discipline (preferably Actuarial)
• Knowledge and experience with Prophet (programming language and software operation)
• Strong technical skills in programming and data analysis
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills

Additional Information

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be: 

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index 
• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change 
• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.
• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals living with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community. 
• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you.

You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.  

As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks. 

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Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.

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