Life Insurance Principal

• Prepare independent expert reports, affidavits, and exhibits for litigation, arbitration, and regulatory matters


• Provide expert witness and deposition testimony to judges, arbitrators, juries, and attorneys


• Perform and oversee deterministic and stochastic cashflow modeling, sensitivity analyses, and experience studies


• Review and validate opposing-party valuations, reserving methods, model implementations, and assumptions


• Maintain reproducible models, complete audit trails, and documentation


• Collaborate with outside counsel and internal subject-matter experts on legal strategy and discovery requirements


• Advise clients on settlement drivers, regulatory exposures, capital impacts, and reinsurance/retrocession implications


• Mentor and supervise actuarial staff and maintain quality control and peer review


• Monitor actuarial standards, legal precedents, and regulatory developments affecting disputes

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, or a related quantitative field


• ASA or FSA (or equivalent) required


• Minimum 10+ years of actuarial experience in life insurance, annuities, or reinsurance


• Strong background in liability valuation, reserving, and pricing


• Experience with variable annuities, equity guarantees, or other complex life/annuity products highly desirable


• Proficiency in reserving, statutory and GAAP/IFRS valuation frameworks, experience studies, and stochastic modeling


• Strong model development, validation, and documentation skills


• Familiarity with actuarial platforms such as Prophet and GGY advantageous


• Ability to produce reproducible analyses and maintain full audit trails suitable for legal scrutiny


• Experience preparing expert reports and working with outside counsel


• Ability to translate complex technical material into clear, defensible findings for legal audiences


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills


• Experience presenting to non-technical audiences including judges, juries, and executives


• Track record of mentoring staff, leading technical teams, and delivering high-quality work under tight deadlines


• Demonstrated independence, integrity, and adherence to actuarial standards of practice and ethical guidelines required for expert testimony

Core Competencies

Expertise in actuarial science with a strong focus on liability valuation, reserving, and pricing, complemented by extensive experience in stochastic modeling and regulatory compliance. Proven ability to prepare expert reports and provide testimony while mentoring actuarial staff and maintaining high standards of quality control.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Actuarial Science Expertise


• Expert Report Preparation


• Stochastic Modeling


• Liability Valuation


• Mentoring Actuarial Staff

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Cashflow Modeling


• Sensitivity Analysis


• Experience Studies


• Model Development


• Valuation Frameworks


• Reserving Methods


• Statutory Valuation


• GAAP Valuation


• Documentation Skills


• Expert Testimony

Soft Skills

• Excellent Communication Skills


• Leadership


• Independence


• Integrity


• Collaboration

Certifications & Qualifications

• ASA


• FSA

Industry Keywords

• Life Insurance


• Annuities


• Reinsurance


• Regulatory Compliance


• Legal Strategy

Tools & Technologies

• Prophet


• GGY