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, where you will play a key role in delivering critical project work that supports liability and capital valuations, embedded value reporting, and business planning. This position offers the opportunity to work on complex actuarial systems initiatives that directly support strategic decision-making across the business.
In this role you will:
- Be responsible for developing and enhancing Prophet models to meet evolving business and regulatory requirements, including implementing changes driven by new regulatory interpretations and recommendations from external advisory groups.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of existing modelling processes by refining Prophet models
- Enhance model point files using tools such as DCS and SQL
- Perform system testing activities (code compares, unit testing, regression testing, documentation)
- Provide end user support during UAT (explaining and demonstrating new functionality)
- Drive greater consistency across modelling methodologies through the harmonisation of key processes and assumptions.
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
- Understanding of risk products and the life insurance industry
- +3 years working experience, preferably in life insurance.
- Strong SQL and Excel skills
- Experience in designing or managing databases
- Working towards actuarial qualification (FIAA or equivalent)
- 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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