Senior Actuary, FSA – Enterprise Finance & Actuarial Projects

Pacific Life

Senior Actuary leading finance and actuarial projects for Pacific Life. Collaborating with teams to ensure timely completion of enterprise-wide projects with a focus on efficiency and stakeholder management.

Posted 5/8/2026full-timeNewport Beach • California, New York, North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $167,670 - $204,930 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

OraclePythonSQLTableau

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Leading and managing complex finance and actuarial projects, ensuring timely and accurate completion.
Providing support across enterprise finance and actuarial transformation efforts leading to efficiencies.
Driving consistent enterprise-level implementation of new actuarial reporting requirements and methodologies under external or internal reporting bases.
Support implementing model development projects, conversions and large-scale changes.
Ensuring appropriate stakeholder management through presentations to senior management, summarizing findings and providing actionable recommendations.
Communicating complex actuarial concepts and results to non-actuarial stakeholders in an understandable manner.
Implementing required new regulatory changes involving actuarial responsibilities.
Providing resource backfill support across Enterprise Finance and Actuarial.
Training and mentoring junior actuarial staff, fostering their professional development and ensuring high-quality work.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's in actuarial science, Computer Science, Finance, Mathematics, or related field or equivalent work experience
6+ years’ actuarial experience, 4-year degree or equivalent experience, and FSA designation.
Working knowledge of various reporting frameworks including regulatory and management reporting; economic value / economic capital, risk-neutral and real-world liabilities, best estimate, and padded assumption setting, etc.
Ability to work independently and manage long-term projects
Detail-oriented with excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
Knowledge of model development platforms and data processes.
Software/Programming experience using Python, R, Visual Basic and SQL
Experience using BI tools (Power BI and/or Tableau)
Work comfortably with databases (Snowflake, Oracle), preferably Snowflake

Benefits

Comp & perks

Your wellbeing is important to Pacific Life, and we’re committed to providing you with flexible benefits that you can tailor to meet your needs.
Prioritization of your health and well-being including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents
Generous paid time off options including: Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off
Paid Parental Leave as well as an Adoption Assistance Program
Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation

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Hard Skills & Tools

actuarial experiencemodel developmentreporting frameworksPythonRVisual BasicSQLPower BITableaudata processes

Soft Skills

stakeholder managementcommunicationinterpersonal skillsorganizational skillsanalytical skillsproblem-solvingdecision-makingdetail-orientedindependent workmentoring

Certifications

FSA designation