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Actuarial Manager roles sit at the intersection of statistical expertise and leadership, making them strong candidates for OPT sponsorship. Most require Fellowship or Associateship credentials alongside a quantitative degree. Your 12-month OPT window, or 24-month STEM extension, gives you meaningful time to demonstrate value and secure H-1B visa sponsorship from an insurance carrier, consulting firm, or financial institution.
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Location
Whippany, New Jersey
Working Schedule
Full-Time
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Travel Required
10%
Relocation Assistance Available
No
Grade
11C
Posted Date
06-Aug-2026
Job ID
19580
Description and Requirements
The Team You Will Join
Join our Global Risk Management Group, where you’ll play a key role in safeguarding the company, ensuring we deliver on our commitments to customers and stakeholders, and driving responsible growth. As part of our team, you’ll identify, monitor, and mitigate both financial and non-financial risks across the organization. Leverage your expertise as the second line of defense to advise our business on effective risk management strategies. This means challenging ideas, implementing robust controls, and enforcing guardrails to foster responsible business growth. Join us in advancing MetLife’s legacy of trust through exemplary risk management practices.
The Opportunity
As part of the Market Risk team within the Global Risk Management, the Senior Actuarial Associate will support the development, maintenance, and enhancement of certain market risk models, analytics, and reports, used to assess MetLife’s risk profile for ALM management across economic and accounting perspectives.
Key models and reporting processes supported by this role include:
- Replicating Portfolio model (e.g. liability proxy model)
- Value-at-risk model
- Business plan risk review
- Risk exposure report under accounting (GAAP, Statutory) and Economic views.
Additionally, this role will provide analytic support for other strategic initiatives for market risk management.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and enhance market risk models, reporting frameworks, and analytics.
- Produce risk reports and communicate key insights to Market Risk leadership.
- Improve reporting and modeling processes through AI, Power Automate, and other automation tools.
- Support business plan reviews and risk assessments for strategic initiatives.
- Assist with Market Risk governance activities, including working groups and committee operations.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, finance, or a related field.
- ASA designation (or near-ASA) with 4+ years of relevant actuarial experience.
- Advanced Excel modeling and quantitative analysis skills.
- Programming experience with Python, VBA, R, C++, or similar tools.
- Strong analytical, mathematical, and organizational capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of insurance and financial concepts, including insurance products, valuation, ALM, derivatives, investment assets, statistics, optimization, and AI/ML.
- Understanding of insurance accounting and reporting frameworks, including US GAAP, IFRS, statutory accounting, and solvency reporting.
- Experience driving process improvement through automation, with the ability to streamline workflows and enhance operational efficiency.
Location Expectation: This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.
The expected salary range for this position is $97,400 - $129,800. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.
Benefits We Offer
Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more! For more information regarding MetLife’s U.S. benefits, please click here.
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible. Join us!
MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law (“protected characteristics”). If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at accommodations@metlife.com. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application process.
MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
This posting is for a current vacancy and is anticipated to remain open for at least 90 days from the listed posting date.
General Information
Location
Whippany, New Jersey
Working Schedule
Full-Time
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Travel Required
10%
Relocation Assistance Available
No
Grade
11C
Posted Date
06-Aug-2026
Job ID
19580
Description and Requirements
The Team You Will Join
Join our Global Risk Management Group, where you’ll play a key role in safeguarding the company, ensuring we deliver on our commitments to customers and stakeholders, and driving responsible growth. As part of our team, you’ll identify, monitor, and mitigate both financial and non-financial risks across the organization. Leverage your expertise as the second line of defense to advise our business on effective risk management strategies. This means challenging ideas, implementing robust controls, and enforcing guardrails to foster responsible business growth. Join us in advancing MetLife’s legacy of trust through exemplary risk management practices.
The Opportunity
As part of the Market Risk team within the Global Risk Management, the Senior Actuarial Associate will support the development, maintenance, and enhancement of certain market risk models, analytics, and reports, used to assess MetLife’s risk profile for ALM management across economic and accounting perspectives.
Key models and reporting processes supported by this role include:
- Replicating Portfolio model (e.g. liability proxy model)
- Value-at-risk model
- Business plan risk review
- Risk exposure report under accounting (GAAP, Statutory) and Economic views.
Additionally, this role will provide analytic support for other strategic initiatives for market risk management.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and enhance market risk models, reporting frameworks, and analytics.
- Produce risk reports and communicate key insights to Market Risk leadership.
- Improve reporting and modeling processes through AI, Power Automate, and other automation tools.
- Support business plan reviews and risk assessments for strategic initiatives.
- Assist with Market Risk governance activities, including working groups and committee operations.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, finance, or a related field.
- ASA designation (or near-ASA) with 4+ years of relevant actuarial experience.
- Advanced Excel modeling and quantitative analysis skills.
- Programming experience with Python, VBA, R, C++, or similar tools.
- Strong analytical, mathematical, and organizational capabilities.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of insurance and financial concepts, including insurance products, valuation, ALM, derivatives, investment assets, statistics, optimization, and AI/ML.
- Understanding of insurance accounting and reporting frameworks, including US GAAP, IFRS, statutory accounting, and solvency reporting.
- Experience driving process improvement through automation, with the ability to streamline workflows and enhance operational efficiency.
Location Expectation: This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum of 3 days per week in office.
The expected salary range for this position is $97,400 - $129,800. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms.
Benefits We Offer
Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more! For more information regarding MetLife’s U.S. benefits, please click here.
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World’s 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world’s leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
As part of our New Frontier strategy, MetLife is building an AI-enabled, people-centered future. We’re looking for people who bring curiosity, adaptability, and a growth mindset as we use AI to enhance how we serve customers, support communities, and evolve the way work gets done. At MetLife, AI is a responsible partner that supports human judgment, creativity, and continuous improvement while helping us build trust, inclusion, and long-term value.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we’re inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it’s #AllTogetherPossible. Join us!
MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law (“protected characteristics”). If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at accommodations@metlife.com. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application process.
MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace.
This posting is for a current vacancy and is anticipated to remain open for at least 90 days from the listed posting date.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding OPT Sponsorship as an Actuarial Manager
Lead with your actuarial credentials
ACAS, FCAS, ASA, or FSA designations signal to employers that you're exam-progression serious. Hiring managers at sponsoring firms prioritize candidates mid-exam track because credentialing timelines align naturally with multi-year H-1B visa sponsorship commitments.
Target insurance carriers and large consulting firms first
Insurers like major P&C carriers and life companies have established OPT and H-1B pipelines. Large actuarial consulting practices sponsor regularly. Smaller boutiques rarely have the legal infrastructure, so focus your energy where sponsorship history already exists.
Frame your OPT timeline around exam milestones
Connecting your remaining exam schedule to the employer's credentialing needs reframes OPT as an asset. A candidate who passes two exams during OPT and transitions to H-1B status is a compelling investment, not an immigration risk.
Emphasize your STEM OPT eligibility explicitly
Actuarial science, statistics, and mathematics degrees qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension, giving employers a 36-month window before H-1B sponsorship is urgent. State this clearly in applications. Many hiring managers underestimate how much time they actually have.
Demonstrate leadership experience beyond technical output
Actuarial Manager roles require supervising analysts and communicating results to non-technical stakeholders. Highlight team lead experience, mentorship, or cross-functional project ownership. Employers sponsoring at the manager level expect this beyond exam progress and technical modeling skills.
Prepare for the specialty occupation conversation
Actuarial Manager positions qualify as specialty occupations for H-1B purposes given the degree and credentialing requirements. Understanding this strengthens your conversations with recruiters unfamiliar with sponsorship, helping them engage their legal teams with confidence rather than hesitation.
Actuarial Manager OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Can F-1 OPT students work as Actuarial Managers in the United States?
Yes. F-1 students authorized for OPT can work as Actuarial Managers, provided the role relates to their degree field. Actuarial science, statistics, mathematics, and related quantitative degrees all support this connection. If your degree qualifies for STEM OPT, you may be eligible for a 24-month extension beyond the initial 12 months, giving you up to 36 months of work authorization.
Does an Actuarial Manager role qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
It depends on your underlying degree, not the job title. If you hold a degree in actuarial science, statistics, mathematics, or a related STEM field listed on the STEM Designated Degree Program List, your degree qualifies for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. The Actuarial Manager role itself is not evaluated for STEM eligibility. Confirm your degree classification with your DSO before applying for the extension.
Which types of employers are most likely to sponsor Actuarial Managers for H-1B visas?
Property and casualty insurers, life and health carriers, reinsurance companies, and large actuarial consulting practices have the most established H-1B sponsorship pipelines for actuarial roles. Employers who already credential and develop actuaries internally are accustomed to the multi-year investment sponsorship requires. You can browse Actuarial Manager openings at OPT-friendly employers directly on Migrate Mate.
What actuarial credentials strengthen an OPT student's sponsorship case?
Progress toward ASA or FSA (Society of Actuaries) or ACAS or FCAS (Casualty Actuarial Society) designations significantly strengthens your candidacy. Employers sponsoring at the manager level are making a long-term credential investment. Candidates with three or more exams passed and a clear path to Fellowship are viewed as lower-risk sponsorship hires than those early in the exam sequence.
Does an Actuarial Manager position qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. Actuarial Manager roles require at minimum a bachelor's degree in actuarial science, mathematics, or a related quantitative field, alongside professional credentialing progress. USCIS consistently recognizes actuarial positions as specialty occupations. This means your employer can file an H-1B petition on your behalf, and the role's requirements naturally satisfy the specialty occupation standard without unusual documentation burdens.