Actuarial Consultant - Advanced Analytics
Date: Sep 18, 2025
Location: Hybrid - Canada, CA
Company: Wawanesa Insurance
Job ID: 9467
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: $95,000 - $140,000. Candidates with salary expectations outside of the range are still encouraged to apply.
About Us
At Wawanesa, we’re proud to 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, ON; Kitchener, ON; Thunder Bay, ON; Ottawa, ON; Montreal, 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 3,600 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. 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.
Job Overview
Wawanesa is hiring multiple Actuaries to join our Advanced Analytics team - a collaborative group of specialists in actuarial science, data science, and engineering. This is a unique opportunity to apply your actuarial skills in a modern, data-driven environment. You’ll work closely with teams across the organization including pricing, reserving, claims, and underwriting to solve diverse business problems using advanced techniques such as machine learning and large language models. This team builds and deploys predictive models that support decision-making across the enterprise, helping Wawanesa deliver smarter, faster, and more impactful solutions.
These roles are open to candidates at multiple levels of actuarial development including: Senior Actuarial Analyst, Actuarial Consultant, and Senior Actuarial Consultant.
Job Responsibilities
- Collaborate with various stakeholders throughout the organization to design, develop, and assess experiments aimed at uncovering meaningful and actionable insights to solve challenging business problems
- Execute and document each stage of the analytical process including sourcing and validating data, performing data cleaning and transformation, selecting appropriate modeling techniques, and interpreting results in the context of business objectives.
- Communicate insights and findings clearly to a broad range of stakeholders, both technical and non-technical, by tailoring messaging to suit the audience and support informed decision-making.
- Improve upon and ensure adherence to established practices, processes and guidelines
- Keep up to date on current statistical and mathematical models and methodologies, including those relating to predictive modelling and machine learning with an eye for applying this knowledge to business processes
- Contribute to educational initiatives aimed at the development of overall inter- and intra-departmental knowledge
- Mentor other actuarial analysts and contribute to a culture of continual learning and improvementPerform other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- University degree in Actuarial Mathematics, Statistics, Mathematics or other related field of study
- Pursuing ACAS or FCAS designation
- Minimum of 3 years prior work experience in insurance or related field
- Detail oriented with analytical and problem-solving skills and an ability to recognize and identify issues and take proper action to resolve them
- Strong creativity skills, with the ability to develop solutions to a variety of problems
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner with style fitting for the audience and message
- Strong planning and organizing skills, with the ability to develop and implement plans by prioritizing
- Proven ability to collaborate and mentor a multi-disciplinary team
- Proficiency with analytical tools and processes used within the department considered an asset. For example: SQL, Python, cloud platforms (AWS), version control, coding standards etc.
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Diversity Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
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