Senior Actuarial Analyst Jobs in USA with Visa Sponsorship
Senior Actuarial Analyst roles are among the most reliably sponsored positions in the U.S. financial services industry. Employers regularly file H-1B visa and E-3 visa petitions for qualified candidates, and the SOC code for actuaries carries strong specialty occupation standing with USCIS. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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At Gallagher Benefit Services, you’re a trusted partner to organizations navigating some of their most important people decisions. We help clients build better workplaces, where people feel supported, empowered, and inspired to thrive. Whether it’s shaping benefit strategies, designing wellbeing programs, or advising on workforce challenges, the work you do here creates meaningful change for businesses and the people who power them. We’re a community of bold explorers, trusted experts, and compassionate partners; working side by side to solve problems, and shape the future of work. Here, curiosity is encouraged, collaboration is second nature, and your ideas have room to grow. If you’re looking for a place where your contribution matters and where you can help build a better world of work; think of Gallagher.
Overview
The GBS Divisional Sr. Financial & Actuarial Consultant is a key leadership role within the Health and Benefits division, responsible for providing support and oversight to Financial and Actuarial Consulting (FAC) managers and consultants. This role includes delivering actuarial and underwriting guidance, assisting client teams, and ensuring the effective use of tools, templates, and training resources. The consultant will also manage capacity, track deliverables, and outline career growth opportunities for team members. In addition to internal responsibilities, the role involves participating in client or prospect meetings to represent the Financial and Actuarial Consulting team, mentoring team members, and driving the adoption of best practices across regions. The ideal candidate will serve as a trusted resource for branch office staff, ensuring the delivery of high-quality services and measurable ROI for clients.
HOW YOU'LL MAKE AN IMPACT
In this role, you’ll lead and manage a team of financial and actuarial professionals, ensuring the delivery of high-quality services to clients and internal teams. You’ll provide resources, tools and training to the team for underwriting analysis, developing financial projections, calculation of reserves, plan design modeling and overall financial analysis of US employer benefit plans. You’ll act as a mentor and coach, supporting the professional growth of analysts and consultants. By developing structured training programs and resources, you’ll enhance technical skills and client-facing capabilities across the team. You’ll also oversee the management of tools, templates, and workflows, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and alignment with industry best practices. Additionally, you’ll represent the Financial and Actuarial Consulting team in client or prospect meetings, as needed, building trust and credibility through actionable insights, and build relationships with Area Presidents and Regional Presidents to ensure FAC is represented within leadership.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Conducting team meetings, distributing communications, and driving collaboration across branches within the region.
- Leading training programs for staff and client teams to ensure consistent adoption of best practices.
- Acting as a liaison between the Financial and Actuarial Consulting teams and Gallagher’s Center of Excellence.
- Assisting in the sales prospecting as needed.
- Maintain deep understanding of Gallagher’s proprietary tools and templates used for financial and actuarial calculations, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in their application.
- Review and enhance client deliverables, ensuring they are visually appealing, easy to understand, and aligned with Gallagher’s standards.
- Provide guidance and support to FAC managers in tracking team capacity and workload distribution.
- Act as a flexible resource to provide overflow support to regions facing high workloads or complex client projects.
- Serve as a go-to resource for branch office staff, providing expertise on actuarial and financial consulting topics.
- Take ownership of escalated service issues, working closely with internal teams and clients to resolve them effectively.
ABOUT YOU
Required:
- Bachelor's degree and 7 years experience with Broker or Carrier side with focus on Health and Benefits.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications and Microsoft Office.
- High degree of understanding of employee benefits funding mechanisms.
- Must be familiar with carrier reporting systems.
- Be able to effectively articulate the format, content, and logic of all underwriting tools and client reports.
Preferred:
- Expertise in financial and actuarial consulting, with a strong understanding of underwriting principles.
- Proven ability to mentor and develop team members, fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.
- Proficiency in using tools like Power Bi dashboards, AMP reporting, and Gallagher’s proprietary templates.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues in simple terms to clients and stakeholders.
- Effective negotiation skills.
- Knowledgeable in using various analytical approaches to problem solving.
- Advanced knowledge of underwriting principles and of the employee benefits field.
Behaviors:
- A strategic mindset, with the ability to identify opportunities for innovation and process improvement.
- Commitment to compliance, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
- A passion for building relationships and delivering measurable ROI for clients.
- Must have strong interpersonal skills; excellent communication skills (both orally and in writing) and ability to build meaningful professional relationships in order to be successful with required client facing activity.
- Must demonstrate ability to effectively manage and mentor individuals as well as a team.
- Must be amiable when encountering difficult situations with clients, vendors, co-workers and direct reports.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
At Gallagher, we believe supporting our colleagues goes far beyond the role itself. For more information, visit our Benefits page.
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive benefits programs designed to support your well-being
- Career development opportunities and ongoing learning
- A collaborative, people-first culture with accessible leadership
- The opportunity to do meaningful work with global reach and local impact
At Gallagher, we are dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to join our Talent Community to stay connected to additional career opportunities. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles. Gallagher is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled)
INTRODUCTION
At Gallagher Benefit Services, you’re a trusted partner to organizations navigating some of their most important people decisions. We help clients build better workplaces, where people feel supported, empowered, and inspired to thrive. Whether it’s shaping benefit strategies, designing wellbeing programs, or advising on workforce challenges, the work you do here creates meaningful change for businesses and the people who power them. We’re a community of bold explorers, trusted experts, and compassionate partners; working side by side to solve problems, and shape the future of work. Here, curiosity is encouraged, collaboration is second nature, and your ideas have room to grow. If you’re looking for a place where your contribution matters and where you can help build a better world of work; think of Gallagher.
Overview
The GBS Divisional Sr. Financial & Actuarial Consultant is a key leadership role within the Health and Benefits division, responsible for providing support and oversight to Financial and Actuarial Consulting (FAC) managers and consultants. This role includes delivering actuarial and underwriting guidance, assisting client teams, and ensuring the effective use of tools, templates, and training resources. The consultant will also manage capacity, track deliverables, and outline career growth opportunities for team members. In addition to internal responsibilities, the role involves participating in client or prospect meetings to represent the Financial and Actuarial Consulting team, mentoring team members, and driving the adoption of best practices across regions. The ideal candidate will serve as a trusted resource for branch office staff, ensuring the delivery of high-quality services and measurable ROI for clients.
HOW YOU'LL MAKE AN IMPACT
In this role, you’ll lead and manage a team of financial and actuarial professionals, ensuring the delivery of high-quality services to clients and internal teams. You’ll provide resources, tools and training to the team for underwriting analysis, developing financial projections, calculation of reserves, plan design modeling and overall financial analysis of US employer benefit plans. You’ll act as a mentor and coach, supporting the professional growth of analysts and consultants. By developing structured training programs and resources, you’ll enhance technical skills and client-facing capabilities across the team. You’ll also oversee the management of tools, templates, and workflows, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and alignment with industry best practices. Additionally, you’ll represent the Financial and Actuarial Consulting team in client or prospect meetings, as needed, building trust and credibility through actionable insights, and build relationships with Area Presidents and Regional Presidents to ensure FAC is represented within leadership.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Conducting team meetings, distributing communications, and driving collaboration across branches within the region.
- Leading training programs for staff and client teams to ensure consistent adoption of best practices.
- Acting as a liaison between the Financial and Actuarial Consulting teams and Gallagher’s Center of Excellence.
- Assisting in the sales prospecting as needed.
- Maintain deep understanding of Gallagher’s proprietary tools and templates used for financial and actuarial calculations, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in their application.
- Review and enhance client deliverables, ensuring they are visually appealing, easy to understand, and aligned with Gallagher’s standards.
- Provide guidance and support to FAC managers in tracking team capacity and workload distribution.
- Act as a flexible resource to provide overflow support to regions facing high workloads or complex client projects.
- Serve as a go-to resource for branch office staff, providing expertise on actuarial and financial consulting topics.
- Take ownership of escalated service issues, working closely with internal teams and clients to resolve them effectively.
ABOUT YOU
Required:
- Bachelor's degree and 7 years experience with Broker or Carrier side with focus on Health and Benefits.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows applications and Microsoft Office.
- High degree of understanding of employee benefits funding mechanisms.
- Must be familiar with carrier reporting systems.
- Be able to effectively articulate the format, content, and logic of all underwriting tools and client reports.
Preferred:
- Expertise in financial and actuarial consulting, with a strong understanding of underwriting principles.
- Proven ability to mentor and develop team members, fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.
- Proficiency in using tools like Power Bi dashboards, AMP reporting, and Gallagher’s proprietary templates.
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to explain complex issues in simple terms to clients and stakeholders.
- Effective negotiation skills.
- Knowledgeable in using various analytical approaches to problem solving.
- Advanced knowledge of underwriting principles and of the employee benefits field.
Behaviors:
- A strategic mindset, with the ability to identify opportunities for innovation and process improvement.
- Commitment to compliance, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
- A passion for building relationships and delivering measurable ROI for clients.
- Must have strong interpersonal skills; excellent communication skills (both orally and in writing) and ability to build meaningful professional relationships in order to be successful with required client facing activity.
- Must demonstrate ability to effectively manage and mentor individuals as well as a team.
- Must be amiable when encountering difficult situations with clients, vendors, co-workers and direct reports.
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
At Gallagher, we believe supporting our colleagues goes far beyond the role itself. For more information, visit our Benefits page.
- Competitive compensation
- Comprehensive benefits programs designed to support your well-being
- Career development opportunities and ongoing learning
- A collaborative, people-first culture with accessible leadership
- The opportunity to do meaningful work with global reach and local impact
At Gallagher, we are dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to join our Talent Community to stay connected to additional career opportunities. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles. Gallagher is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled)
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Senior Actuarial Analyst
Target insurance carriers and large consulting firms first
Firms like large insurance carriers, Big Four consulting practices, and pension advisory groups file H-1B and E-3 petitions for actuarial roles consistently. Their HR teams understand sponsorship workflows and rarely treat it as a dealbreaker for credentialed candidates.
Lead with your exam progress, not your visa status
Hiring managers for actuarial roles screen on exam count before almost anything else. Candidates with three or more passed exams attract serious attention. Sponsorship conversations go smoother when the employer already sees you as a strong technical hire worth pursuing.
Understand how your degree field affects the specialty occupation case
USCIS expects a direct connection between your degree field and actuarial work. Degrees in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, or economics support a clean petition. A computer science degree can work but may require additional documentation explaining the connection.
Australian citizens should prioritize the E-3 over H-1B
The E-3 visa has no lottery, processes in weeks rather than months, and the 10,500 annual cap has never been filled. For Australian actuarial analysts, it is a materially faster and more predictable path to starting work than waiting on H-1B selection.
Fellowship candidates have stronger negotiating leverage on sponsorship
Employers are significantly more willing to absorb legal and filing costs for candidates on a Fellow track. If you are close to fellowship in the CAS or SOA, make that timeline explicit in conversations. It reframes sponsorship as a retention investment, not an administrative burden.
Use Migrate Mate to find roles explicitly open to visa sponsorship
Most job listings do not flag sponsorship availability clearly. Migrate Mate filters for employers actively willing to sponsor, saving you from applying to roles where sponsorship was never an option. Browse Senior Actuarial Analyst openings directly on the platform.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Senior Actuarial Analyst a qualifying specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. The actuarial analyst role consistently qualifies as a specialty occupation under H-1B visa standards. USCIS recognizes that the position normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, or a closely related field. The SOC code for actuaries has a long track record of approved petitions, and RFE rates for this title are lower than many other financial roles.
Which visa types do employers typically use to sponsor actuarial analysts?
The H-1B is the most common path for candidates from most countries, though it requires surviving the annual lottery held each April. Australian citizens can use the E-3 visa instead, which has no lottery and can be processed at a U.S. consulate in weeks. Candidates already in the U.S. on OPT or STEM OPT extension can work while their H-1B petition is pending under cap-gap protection.
Do I need a specific degree to get sponsored as a Senior Actuarial Analyst?
Your degree needs to connect clearly to actuarial work. Actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, economics, and finance degrees all support a straightforward specialty occupation argument. A degree in a less directly related field is not automatically disqualifying, but your employer's immigration attorney will need to document why the role requires that specific body of knowledge. Exam progress through the SOA or CAS strengthens the overall petition regardless of degree field.
How competitive is the job market for sponsored actuarial analysts?
Demand for actuarial analysts with exam credits consistently outpaces supply in the U.S. market. Employers in health insurance, property and casualty, life insurance, and pension consulting regularly sponsor candidates because qualified actuarial talent is genuinely scarce. Candidates who have passed three or more actuarial exams are in a strong position to find employers willing to handle visa paperwork. Browse current sponsored openings on Migrate Mate to see which firms are actively hiring.
Can I switch employers mid-visa on an H-1B as an actuarial analyst?
Yes. H-1B portability allows you to change employers once your new employer files an H-1B transfer petition, and you can start working immediately upon filing rather than waiting for approval. Your new employer must file before your current status expires. The transfer petition follows the same specialty occupation requirements, so the actuarial role and your degree credentials need to hold up under the same USCIS standards as the original petition.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Senior Actuarial Analyst jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.