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Kuvare is on a mission to serve hardworking consumers overwhelmed by the complexities of retirement and is built from the ground up to do so. Our unified financial hub protects the retirement of everyday Americans and the distributors, carriers and investors that serve them. We create life insurance and annuity products that protect consumers’ retirements, and are simplified for distributor partners and financial professionals to sell and service.
Kuvare family of companies:
Retail Annuity and Life Insurance Solutions:
- United Life Insurance Company
- Guaranty Income Life Insurance Company
- Lincoln Benefit Life
Institutional Insurance:
- Kuvare Life Re
Bespoke Insurance Solutions:
- Ignite Partners
About the role
The VP and Actuary, ALM leads the enterprise asset-liability management function, setting strategy, governance, and priorities to optimize the ALM position, liquidity profile, and risk-adjusted performance of the company and its affiliates. The role advises senior management on balance-sheet risks, strategic trade-offs, and recommended actions.
Serves as the senior ALM advisor and strategic partner to Actuarial, Finance, Investments (KSI), Risk, Legal, Operations, Tax, and key external parties, aligning stakeholders on balance-sheet strategy, risk priorities, and execution.
What you'll do
The VP and Actuary, ALM is accountable for leading the ALM function and delivering the following strategic, governance, and execution outcomes:
Leads ALM discussions with executive management and relevant governance committees, presenting risk assessments, strategic alternatives, recommendations, and decisions requiring escalation or approval.- Monitors regulatory, accounting, rating agency, and market developments affecting ALM and translates emerging requirements and trends into timely strategic recommendations and implementation priorities.
- Leads partnership with the Investment team to develop investment and reinvestment strategies that align asset deployment with liability characteristics, risk appetite, capital objectives, and enterprise planning needs, including the business plan, embedded value, cash flow testing, and stress testing.
- Directs the development of optimization capabilities and evaluates alternative strategies, recommending actions that improve hedging effectiveness, ALM efficiency, capital utilization, and risk-adjusted performance.
- Sets the strategic direction and governance for asset modeling in AXIS, ensuring quarterly model builds support actuarial projections, enterprise decision-making, and the needs of the company and its affiliates.
- Sponsors the development and continuous improvement of scalable analytics, tools, and reporting that deepen insight into ALM performance and support timely executive decisions.
- Establishes and maintains the ALM governance framework, including methodology and change memoranda, management and board-level materials, decision records, and recommendations on emerging balance-sheet issues.
- Owns governance and controls for ALM systems and models, including AXIS, ensuring appropriate change management, data quality, documentation, validation, and operational resilience.
- Oversees investment compliance reporting to third parties, including reinsurers, and ensures reporting is accurate, timely, and supported by effective controls and escalation protocols.
- Measure, monitor, and report on ALM and hedge positions and results to ensure processes remain robust, effective, and compliant with approved guidelines, limits, and policies; develop and oversee remediation plans as needed.
- Leads the review and challenge of investment data for monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting. Ensures data accuracy, identifies underlying drivers and emerging trends, challenges assumptions, and communicates implications and recommended actions to senior management.
- Oversees investment-related assumptions and cash flow reliance statements provided to the Appointed Actuary, ensuring they are supportable, well documented, and aligned with enterprise ALM strategy.
- Provides leadership and direction to the ALM team by setting clear priorities, defining accountabilities, and aligning resources with enterprise objectives. Builds organizational capability through coaching, feedback, performance management, succession planning, and targeted development of actuarial and analytical talent. Establishes effective delegation and decision rights while remaining accountable for the quality, timeliness, and impact of the team’s work.
Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, or related fields
- FSA, MAAA, with equivalent experience preferred
- 10+ years of progressive life insurance experience, including significant leadership responsibility in ALM and related actuarial disciplines such as product management, valuation, modeling, financial reporting, and systems. Experience advising senior management and translating complex balance-sheet risks into strategic recommendations is strongly preferred.
Skills/Competencies
Deep understanding and current knowledge of ALM techniques, liquidity risk, hedging, capital management strategies, model governance, and enterprise balance-sheet decision-making.- Strategic and critical thinker with sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to make well-reasoned decisions amid complexity and uncertainty.
- Exceptional executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex actuarial, investment, and risk topics into clear insights, recommendations, and decisions for senior management and other stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence senior stakeholders, resolve competing priorities, and build alignment around enterprise decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team, including setting expectations, managing performance, providing actionable feedback, and building succession depth.
- Self-starter and strong entrepreneurial spirit
- Demonstrated ability to deliver results under pressure in a tight timeframe
Physical Demands
- Normal office working environment
- Occasional evening and weekend hours to meet deadlines
- Occasional travel is required
- Ability to sit for extended periods of time
- Ability to type / perform data entry
- Ability to read from a computer screen and paper reports
- Express ideas and otherwise communicate with the spoken word
Kuvare is on a mission to serve hardworking consumers overwhelmed by the complexities of retirement and is built from the ground up to do so. Our unified financial hub protects the retirement of everyday Americans and the distributors, carriers and investors that serve them. We create life insurance and annuity products that protect consumers’ retirements, and are simplified for distributor partners and financial professionals to sell and service.
Kuvare family of companies:
Retail Annuity and Life Insurance Solutions:
- United Life Insurance Company
- Guaranty Income Life Insurance Company
- Lincoln Benefit Life
Institutional Insurance:
- Kuvare Life Re
Bespoke Insurance Solutions:
- Ignite Partners
About the role
The VP and Actuary, ALM leads the enterprise asset-liability management function, setting strategy, governance, and priorities to optimize the ALM position, liquidity profile, and risk-adjusted performance of the company and its affiliates. The role advises senior management on balance-sheet risks, strategic trade-offs, and recommended actions.
Serves as the senior ALM advisor and strategic partner to Actuarial, Finance, Investments (KSI), Risk, Legal, Operations, Tax, and key external parties, aligning stakeholders on balance-sheet strategy, risk priorities, and execution.
What you'll do
The VP and Actuary, ALM is accountable for leading the ALM function and delivering the following strategic, governance, and execution outcomes:
Leads ALM discussions with executive management and relevant governance committees, presenting risk assessments, strategic alternatives, recommendations, and decisions requiring escalation or approval.- Monitors regulatory, accounting, rating agency, and market developments affecting ALM and translates emerging requirements and trends into timely strategic recommendations and implementation priorities.
- Leads partnership with the Investment team to develop investment and reinvestment strategies that align asset deployment with liability characteristics, risk appetite, capital objectives, and enterprise planning needs, including the business plan, embedded value, cash flow testing, and stress testing.
- Directs the development of optimization capabilities and evaluates alternative strategies, recommending actions that improve hedging effectiveness, ALM efficiency, capital utilization, and risk-adjusted performance.
- Sets the strategic direction and governance for asset modeling in AXIS, ensuring quarterly model builds support actuarial projections, enterprise decision-making, and the needs of the company and its affiliates.
- Sponsors the development and continuous improvement of scalable analytics, tools, and reporting that deepen insight into ALM performance and support timely executive decisions.
- Establishes and maintains the ALM governance framework, including methodology and change memoranda, management and board-level materials, decision records, and recommendations on emerging balance-sheet issues.
- Owns governance and controls for ALM systems and models, including AXIS, ensuring appropriate change management, data quality, documentation, validation, and operational resilience.
- Oversees investment compliance reporting to third parties, including reinsurers, and ensures reporting is accurate, timely, and supported by effective controls and escalation protocols.
- Measure, monitor, and report on ALM and hedge positions and results to ensure processes remain robust, effective, and compliant with approved guidelines, limits, and policies; develop and oversee remediation plans as needed.
- Leads the review and challenge of investment data for monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting. Ensures data accuracy, identifies underlying drivers and emerging trends, challenges assumptions, and communicates implications and recommended actions to senior management.
- Oversees investment-related assumptions and cash flow reliance statements provided to the Appointed Actuary, ensuring they are supportable, well documented, and aligned with enterprise ALM strategy.
- Provides leadership and direction to the ALM team by setting clear priorities, defining accountabilities, and aligning resources with enterprise objectives. Builds organizational capability through coaching, feedback, performance management, succession planning, and targeted development of actuarial and analytical talent. Establishes effective delegation and decision rights while remaining accountable for the quality, timeliness, and impact of the team’s work.
Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, or related fields
- FSA, MAAA, with equivalent experience preferred
- 10+ years of progressive life insurance experience, including significant leadership responsibility in ALM and related actuarial disciplines such as product management, valuation, modeling, financial reporting, and systems. Experience advising senior management and translating complex balance-sheet risks into strategic recommendations is strongly preferred.
Skills/Competencies
Deep understanding and current knowledge of ALM techniques, liquidity risk, hedging, capital management strategies, model governance, and enterprise balance-sheet decision-making.- Strategic and critical thinker with sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to make well-reasoned decisions amid complexity and uncertainty.
- Exceptional executive communication skills, with the ability to translate complex actuarial, investment, and risk topics into clear insights, recommendations, and decisions for senior management and other stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, influence senior stakeholders, resolve competing priorities, and build alignment around enterprise decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team, including setting expectations, managing performance, providing actionable feedback, and building succession depth.
- Self-starter and strong entrepreneurial spirit
- Demonstrated ability to deliver results under pressure in a tight timeframe
Physical Demands
- Normal office working environment
- Occasional evening and weekend hours to meet deadlines
- Occasional travel is required
- Ability to sit for extended periods of time
- Ability to type / perform data entry
- Ability to read from a computer screen and paper reports
- Express ideas and otherwise communicate with the spoken word
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in assistant vice president and actuary jobs.
- Fellowship or associateship in the Casualty Actuarial Society or Society of Actuaries
- Seven or more years of actuarial experience in a relevant line of business
- Advanced proficiency in R, Python, SAS, or actuarial modeling platforms
- Deep knowledge of reserving, pricing, or enterprise risk management methodologies
- Experience communicating actuarial findings to executive and non-technical audiences
- Bachelor's degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, or a related quantitative field
Tips for Your Assistant Vice President and Actuary Job Search
Lead your resume with exam progress
Actuarial hiring managers scan for fellowship status or exam count before anything else. List every passed exam by name and date near the top of your resume, not buried in a credentials section. Gaps in exam progress need a brief explanation.
Distinguish your pricing and reserving depth
AVP-level roles split sharply between pricing-focused and reserving-focused tracks. Tailor your resume to match the posting's emphasis, using the same terminology the job description uses for the specific line of business you're targeting.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists assistant vice president and actuary openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by line of business
Filter openings by line of business before applying. A strong P&C pricing background rarely translates cleanly to a life valuation role, and recruiters notice mismatched applications quickly. Applying to roles that fit your specific technical lane gets you further faster.
Prepare a case study from your own work
AVP actuarial interviews often include a technical exercise or model review. Walk in with a real example of a reserve study, pricing analysis, or risk model you built, anonymized if necessary, and be ready to explain your methodology and the business decision it supported.
Negotiate total compensation, not just base
Actuarial offers at this level routinely include study support, exam bonuses, and profit-sharing alongside base pay. Know the value of those components before you respond to an offer, and ask explicitly about exam reimbursement policy if it isn't listed.
Assistant Vice President and Actuary Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most assistant vice president and actuarys?
RGA, Protective, and USAA are hiring the most assistant vice president and actuarys right now, with openings concentrated in New Jersey, Texas, and Nebraska, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Demand tends to cluster at large carriers, reinsurers, and actuarial consulting practices.
How many assistant vice president and actuary jobs are remote?
About 83% of assistant vice president and actuary openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the profession's shift toward distributed teams. Roles focused on enterprise risk modeling and consulting tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while positions tied to on-site pricing reviews or regulatory filings are more likely to require in-office presence.
How do you become an assistant vice president and actuary?
Reaching an AVP actuarial title typically requires completing your fellowship exams, accumulating substantial experience in a specific line of business, and demonstrating that you can lead projects and mentor junior staff. Building expertise in a focused area, such as P&C reserving or life valuation, and showing measurable impact on business decisions tends to accelerate the path to this level.
Can you get an assistant vice president and actuary role with limited experience?
Breaking directly into an AVP actuarial role with limited experience is uncommon because the title signals both technical mastery and leadership responsibility. The most practical route is to advance through associate and senior actuarial analyst positions, make consistent exam progress, and take on project leadership opportunities early so you have concrete examples of independent work when you apply.
What does the assistant vice president and actuary interview process look like?
The process typically starts with a recruiter screen, followed by a technical interview where you walk through past modeling work or reserving analyses in detail. Later rounds usually involve a case study or take-home exercise, conversations with senior actuaries about methodology and business judgment, and a final round with cross-functional leaders who assess communication skills and strategic thinking.
Where can I find and apply to assistant vice president and actuary jobs?
You can find and apply to assistant vice president and actuary jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that match your line of business and exam status, and apply directly to each listing that fits.
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