Senior Actuarial Associate; Hybrid

Job Overview

At Prudential, we believe talent is key to achieving our vision. When you join Prudential, you’ll unlock a motivating and impactful career while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world's leading financial services institutions!

The Senior Actuarial Associate will act as a point of contact for actuarial and general transaction activities in support of Prudential’s International Reinsurance (IR) efforts, the international component of Prudential’s rapidly growing Pension Risk Transfer business. This individual will be actively engaged in live non‑U.S. reinsurance transactions, supporting the transaction lead and aiding the business team’s preparation for discussions with market intermediaries and counter parties on certain live transaction opportunities focusing on benefits, data, and liability modeling.

The successful candidate will support the team’s efforts to achieve aggressive business growth while maintaining an appropriately controlled operating environment.

The current employee work arrangement for this position is hybrid and requires your on‑site presence on a recurring basis as determined by business. Your manager will provide additional details regarding the specific number of days you are expected to be on‑site.

• Provide an analysis and concise summary of pension plan provisions and proposed benefit structure as part of the presales process, identifying any new or unusual risks as well as specific benefit and transaction features that present pricing, onboarding or implementation challenges.
• Review client Request for Quotations (RFQ) documents alongside the transaction lead and ensure that the Business, Underwriting, Pricing and Administration teams interpret these documents correctly and consistently.
• Analyze raw data files and run the transaction data query process for purposes of constructing a reinsurance transaction benefits model.
• Work with counter party actuaries to reconcile pension benefit and cash flow modeling.
• Work with the Pricing Team to independently replicate pension and annuity cash flows using the best estimate assumptions along with all reserving and capital scenarios to validate the liabilities used in our pricing models.
• Review reinsurance term sheets and draft/review legal document language relating to the benefit characteristics that underlie our premiums and fees.
• Actively engage as a member of the transaction team from initial evaluation and quotation, through the onboarding process.
• Participate in general business transaction support activities.

• Bachelor’s degree in actuarial science or a related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of actuarial or related work experience, preferably in retirement and/or insurance.
• Several exams passed and a desire to pursue ASA/FSA designations.
• Strong technical skills (Microsoft Excel, SQL and PowerPoint) and ability to understand complex quantitative concepts and models.
• Good communication skills, particularly in presenting technical results to senior executives and non‑technical audiences.
• Ability to work independently with excellent project management skills and the ability to juggle multiple urgent priorities.
• Creative problem‑solver, particularly in areas with very little clarity or precedence.
• Highly motivated and able to thrive in a fast‑paced, results‑oriented environment with high quality standards.
• Fast learner with ability to collaborate with multiple teams on complex transactions.

• Experience with the pension industry (highly preferred but not required).

Prudential welcomes all applicants, even if you don’t meet every requirement. If your skills align with the role, we encourage you to apply.

Prudential is required by state‑specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $99,700.00 to $. Specific pricing may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.
• Med…