Senior Actuarial Analyst (Life Pricing)

About The Role Team –Pricing - Life Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality London Office. Full time, 37.5 hours per week. We are happy to discuss flexible working!

Top 3 skills needed for this role

Life insurance pricing experience

Strong actuarial modelling & analysis

Stakeholder communication & influence

What this role is all about: Our Actuaries sit at the heart of our mission - making people healthier and enhancing lives. As trusted analytical experts, they turn complex data into clear insights that shape our products, pricing and long-term financial strength. From assessing and managing risk to designing innovative, fair and sustainable life insurance solutions, their work helps ensure we can deliver great value to our members - today and in the future. As a Senior Actuarial Analyst in Life Pricing, you’ll play a key role in shaping our long-term life insurance propositions. You’ll gain hands-on exposure to end-to-end pricing, continue to develop your technical actuarial and data science capabilities, and contribute directly to strategic decision-making, growth and financial stability at Vitality.

Key Actions

Manage, define and analyse data, including developing and maintaining robust processes

Build, enhance and maintain pricing models, documenting key assumptions and methodologies

Identify and assess key risks and assumptions, recommending appropriate solutions

Validate results using business and external market insight

Monitor performance, explain results clearly and identify opportunities for improvement

Understand stakeholder needs and tailor analysis accordingly

Work independently with senior stakeholders, addressing challenges and unforeseen issues

Produce and present clear, insightful analysis and presentations

Act as a subject-matter resource for less experienced colleagues

Communicate progress clearly and manage stakeholder expectations

Support and, where required, co-ordinate the work of Actuarial Analysts

Share information appropriately and listen to others’ perspectives

What do you need to thrive?

Associate member of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (or equivalent), or working towards this

Experience within financial services, ideally in health or life insurance

Working knowledge of SQL, with experience writing and editing queries to extract and analyse data (e.g. SQL Server Management Studio)

Exposure to Python/R and data processing libraries

Familiarity with visualisation and dashboarding tools such as Power BI

Experience leveraging AI tools and agents to improve efficiency, generate insights and automate workflow

Strong MS Office skills, particularly Excel, with working knowledge of Word and PowerPoint

So, what’s in it for you?

Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance

A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary

Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits

Life Assurance – Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities! If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:

Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been

Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self

Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work

Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths

Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be

Give you the space to try, fail and learn

Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support

Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits

Be there for you when you need us

Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.