Hybrid Life Insurance Principal

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About the role

  • Senior Actuary producing independent expert witness reports for insurance and reinsurance disputes. Collaborating with clients and legal teams while supervising actuarial staff in a hybrid environment.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare independent expert reports, affidavits, and exhibits that clearly document assumptions, methodology, and results for use in litigation, arbitration, and regulatory matters
  • Provide expert witness and deposition testimony; explain technical findings to judges, arbitrators, juries, and attorneys
  • Perform and oversee actuarial analyses relevant to disputes, including deterministic and stochastic cashflow modeling, sensitivity analyses, and experience studies
  • Independently review and validate opposing-party valuations, reserving methods, model implementations, and assumption choices
  • Ensure reproducibility and maintain complete audit trails and documentation of models and analyses used in expert opinions
  • Collaborate closely with outside counsel and internal subject-matter experts to align technical work with legal strategy and discovery requirements
  • Advise clients on settlement drivers, regulatory exposures, capital impacts, and reinsurance/retrocession implications
  • Mentor and supervise actuarial staff contributing to expert engagements; maintain high standards of quality control and peer review
  • Keep abreast of actuarial standards of practice, relevant legal precedents, and regulatory developments affecting insurance/reinsurance disputes

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, or a related quantitative field
  • ASA or FSA (or equivalent) required
  • Minimum 10+ years of actuarial experience in life insurance, annuities, or reinsurance with strong background in liability valuation, reserving, and pricing
  • Prior experience in senior in-house actuarial roles (e.g., Chief Actuary, SVP) and/or consulting preferred
  • Demonstrated experience with variable annuities, equity guarantees, or other complex life/annuity products is highly desirable
  • Proficiency in reserving, valuation frameworks (statutory, GAAP/IFRS), experience studies, and stochastic modeling
  • Strong model development, validation, and documentation skills; familiarity with actuarial platforms (e.g., Prophet, GGY) is advantageous
  • Ability to produce reproducible analyses and maintain full audit trails suitable for legal scrutiny
  • Experience preparing expert reports and working with outside counsel; prior deposition/testimony experience highly desirable
  • Comfort translating complex technical material into clear, defensible findings for legal audiences
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to present to non-technical audiences (judges, juries, executives)
  • Track record of mentoring staff, leading technical teams, and delivering high-quality work under tight deadlines
  • Demonstrated independence, integrity, and adherence to actuarial standards of practice and ethical guidelines required for expert testimony

Benefits

  • health and welfare benefits
  • tuition assistance
  • 401K savings and other retirement programs
  • employee assistance programs

Job title

Life Insurance Principal

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$185,000 - $270,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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