Trainee Pricing Actuary – General Insurance

We're looking for a motivated and analytical Trainee Actuary to join our Personal Lines Pricing & Trading team in Dublin. This role offers a unique opportunity to develop your actuarial career through exposure to pricing, forecasting, and trading performance activities. You'll support the Trading & Performance Manager and collaborate with colleagues across Pricing, Underwriting, and Finance. Your insights will help shape business decisions and drive performance across our Personal Lines portfolio.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Monitoring trading performance, analysing trends in risk mix, volumes, and profitability.
• Using findings to deliver actionable insights and recommendations to stakeholders across the business, including tailoring market rates to maximise performance.
• Supporting quarterly valuation mix inputs through data preparation, validation, and analysis to inform actuarial models
• Assisting with quarterly forecasting by running and refining trading models, ensuring assumptions and outputs are aligned with business plans.
• Contributing to ad-hoc pricing and trading projects, supporting initiatives to improve performance and profitability.
• Developing skills in industry-standard tools (e.g. SQL, Python, Radar where appropriate).

Skills & Experience:

• Previous experience in General Insurance Pricing, ideally in Motor or Home.
• Part-qualified actuary (IFoA or equivalent) and progressing with exams.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Curious mindset with ability to explain the story behind the numbers.
• Experience with SQL is desirable; familiarity with Radar or Emblem is beneficial.
• Strong communication skills to present findings and influence stakeholders.

What will you get for this role?

• A competitive market leading salary depending on skills, experience, and qualifications
• Generous pension (employee contribution matching of up to 14% if you contribute 8%)
• Annual performance related bonus and pay review
• Holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays, and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days
• Generous Health & dental insurance contributions after six months
• Aviva Matching Share Plan and Save As You Earn scheme and Approved Profit Share Scheme
• Cycle to Work benefit scheme
• TaxSaver Travel Scheme
• Family friendly parent’s (matching paternity and maternity leave) and carer’s leave.
• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products plus discounts for Friends and Family
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Volunteering days
• Professional qualification support and transparent career progression plans

Aviva is for Everyone

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We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

We prefer all applications to be submitted online, however if you require an alternative method of applying, please contact Saidhbh.goonan1@aviva.com