Actuary 2 - Enterprise Risk Management
Posted Sep 9, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Where are you in the CAS or SOA exam process, and how do you balance exams with project work?
What they are checking: Whether they are making steady progress toward credentials while still delivering on their day job.
Tell me about a model you built. What tools did you use, and how did you check it was right?
What they are checking: Whether they validate their own work carefully rather than trusting output because the code ran.
Tell me about a time your analysis changed a management decision.
What they are checking: Whether they can influence action with their models, which is what this role is really measured on.
What would you do
A risk owner disagrees with how you rated their risk. How do you handle that conversation?
What they are checking: Whether they can defend an assessment with evidence while staying open to facts the risk owner knows better.
How would you explain a 1-in-200-year loss estimate to senior managers who are not actuaries?
What they are checking: Whether they can make tail risk meaningful to decision makers without false precision or jargon.
About the work
This role covers property and casualty, life and health, and a bank. How would you compare risk across businesses that are so different?
What they are checking: Whether they can find a common risk language, such as capital or earnings at risk, across very different businesses.
Walk me through how you would model the impact of a severe convective storm season on the property and casualty companies.
What they are checking: Whether they can think through catastrophe exposure, reinsurance and capital effects in a connected way.
How do you decide which assumptions in a risk model need the most scrutiny?
What they are checking: Whether they use sensitivity testing and judgment to focus on the assumptions that actually drive the result.
What is the difference between risk appetite and risk tolerance, and how would you use them in reporting?
What they are checking: Whether they understand the enterprise risk framework well enough to turn it into useful limits and reports.
Interest rates move sharply. Which parts of the enterprise would you look at first, and why?
What they are checking: Whether they see how rate changes hit life liabilities, bank balance sheets and investment portfolios differently.
How do you use programming or visualization tools to make your work faster or clearer?
What they are checking: Whether they go beyond spreadsheets to make models repeatable and results easy for others to read.
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