Actuarial System Specialist

Company Description

• Help protect over 5 million Australians, making a real difference in their lives during their most challenging times. 
• Be part of a team that invests in your growth, offering exclusive industry accreditation and a variety of learning experiences. 
•  Work with experienced and skilled colleagues who support and inspire one another to achieve collective success 

For over 150 years, we've never stopped finding better ways to protect Australians. As one of the nation’s leading life insurers, we’re driven by ambition and a sense of purpose. Our responsibility to our customers, partners, and the broader community is at the heart of everything we do.  

At TAL, we’re empowered to experiment, innovate, and create better products and services. Backed by Daiichi Life, one of the world’s largest insurers, we deliver financial security to millions of Australians through our care and expertise. Bring your curious mind and ambition to shape our industry and help us become the progressive, digitally enabled, leading insurer we aim to be.  

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Actuarial Systems team, a critical function supporting TAL’s actuarial and finance operations. The role is responsible for delivering system enhancements, development initiatives, and ongoing improvements that underpin key actuarial and financial processes, including liability and capital valuations, embedded value reporting, and business planning.

Working closely with stakeholders across Finance and Actuarial teams, the position plays an important role in ensuring systems remain robust, efficient, and fit for purpose, while driving continuous improvement and supporting evolving business needs. This role offers the opportunity to combine technical expertise with business impact, contributing to the delivery of critical insights that help inform strategic decision-making across the organisation.

In this role you will:

• Support the Actuarial System team in the design, build, test and implementation of Actuarial projection models (using the prophet enterprise platform)
• Analyse and specify data requirements (variable names, formats, attributes) for prophet model inputs and outputs
• Modify DCS processes to maintain system integration points in line with model changes
• Contribute to the build and implementation of data flow process interacting with the IDR (Insurance Data Repository for Prophet model inputs and outputs) to meet IFRS reporting requirements

Qualifications

• Qualified Actuary (or nearly qualified)
• 7+ years life insurance experience
• Deep knowledge and experience with Prophet (programming language and software operation)
• Strong technical skills in programming and data analysis, and strong SQL skills and Excel skills

Desirable:

• Experience in designing or managing databases
• Commercial acumen
• Experience with Atlassian software workflow and documentation tools – JIRA and Confluence

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 from 2014 to 2025 and 2023 to 2026 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 with disability/ies, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTQ+ 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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