Reserving Actuary
🧰 Who We Are
Wakam is a B2B2C insurer building white-label and embedded insurance solutions via our Play&Plug® technology platform for 80+ partners. We deliver most products through APIs and operate fully in the cloud.
Active in 32 countries, Wakam is a European leader in digital and embedded insurance—and a mission-driven company dedicated to enabling transparent and impactful insurance.
🚀 About the Team
You will join a young and dynamic team of 4 actuarial analysts. This team is at the heart of the company's steering process and strategic challenges related to our commitments to our policyholders.
🎯 Your Mission
As Reserving Actuary, you will be a technical reference and project leader for cross-functional initiatives. Your scope includes:
- Be the reserving point person on transversal Wakam SA projects.
- Lead projects within the Reserving team; set approach, timelines, deliverables.
- Mentor and upskill juniors, providing technical oversight and coaching.
- Perform reserving analyses and estimate ultimate losses across Wakam SA (France, Europe & Branch).
- Contribute to forecast and budget on loss activity and trends.
- Prepare, analyze and review Best Estimate calculations for the economic balance sheet and Solvency II reporting.
- Validate data quality used in calculations and drive remediation where needed.
- Run deep-dive actuarial analyses to enhance robustness of provisions.
- Monitor technical KPIs monthly (frequency, severity, IBNR run-off cadence, etc.).
- Continuously improve reserving processes, controls and tools.
🧠 What You Bring
- Master’s degree (Bac+5) in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics or Econometrics.
- 3+ years’ experience in Non-Life (P&C) reserving (minimum).
- Strong command of SAS, R and SQL (or equivalent analytical stack).
- Professional English fluency; French is a plus.
- A rigorous, structured approach and the ability to communicate complex results clearly.
✨ Who You Are
- Analytical and synthesis-minded, with sharp business judgment.
- A team player who can also work autonomously and own outcomes.
- Methodical, detail-oriented, and pedagogical when presenting results.
- Proactive, improvement-oriented, and comfortable challenging the status quo constructively.
✨ AI
At Wakam, AI and automation are transforming the insurance experience. We’re looking for curious, open-minded teammates ready to adopt AI tools to:
- Streamline day-to-day workflows,
- Automate repetitive tasks,
- Enrich data analysis and decision-making.
You don’t need to be a technical expert—what matters most is your adaptability and eagerness to learn. We’ll support your upskilling so you can help build the transparent, high-impact insurance of tomorrow.
🌟 Why Join Wakam?
- 🌍 European scope: contribute across 32 markets with real visibility.
- 🚀 Impact at pace: own a critical lever of performance and influence decisions.
- 💡 Modern toolkit: work with advanced analytics and automation to raise the bar.
- 📊 Seat at the table: turn reserving insight into action for portfolio steering.
- 🏡 Flexibility: remote-friendly, outcome-driven culture.
🏆 Hiring Process
- Screening interview with our Talent Acquisition Partner
- Interview with our Head of Reserving
- Culture fit interview
- Final interview with our People Partner
Ready to shape the future of reserving with us? Apply now! 🙌
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