Associate Actuary / Actuary - Property & Casualty
Protective Life · Birmingham
OtherActuarialRemoteFull Time
Protective Life is hiring a Associate Actuary / Actuary - Property & Casualty in Birmingham, Alabama (remote, full-time). Posted 22 September 2026. Apply directly on Protective Life's own careers site — no account needed.
The work we do has an impact on millions of lives, and you can be a part of it.
We help protect our customers against life’s uncertainties. Regardless of where you work within the company, you’ll be helping provide protection and peace of mind when our customers need it most.
Protective is seeking an experienced Property & Casualty (P&C) actuarial professional to join our Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) team. This role will serve as a trusted risk advisor to Protective’s growing P&C businesses, including the Asset Protection Division (APD) and the Excess and Surplus (E&S) line of business. They will provide independent actuarial and enterprise risk management perspectives on material business decisions.
The successful candidate will apply deep P&C insurance knowledge, actuarial judgment, and capital management expertise to help leadership understand the risk and capital implications of business growth, acquisitions, and other strategic initiatives. This individual will evaluate risk across underwriting, pricing, claims, reinsurance, catastrophe exposure, and capital, translating complex analyses into clear insights and practical recommendations.
This is an opportunity to help shape the risk framework for a growing P&C platform, influence enterprise decisions, and support the continued integration and development of P&C operations within Protective. The role is well suited for an experienced actuary who has worked within an insurance carrier’s ERM function and can operate as an independent, credible advisor to business and senior leaders.
Dependent on credentialling and experience, the internal title for this role will be either Associate Actuary, P&C or Actuary, P&C. Our posted range encompasses the listed salary for both levels.
Key Responsibilities
• Serve as the primary ERM partner supporting Protective’s P&C businesses, including the Asset Protection Division and the Excess and Surplus line of business.
• Provide constructive, independent challenge of business assumptions, actuarial analyses, risk assessments, and management decisions.
• Provide independent actuarial and ERM advice on business growth, risk-taking activities, acquisitions, strategic initiatives, and emerging risks.
• Assess insurance risk exposures relative to Protective’s risk appetite, limits, tolerances, and capital framework.
• Develop and enhance P&C risk metrics, key risk indicators, dashboards, limits, monitoring processes, and escalation procedures.
• Analyze profitability, underwriting performance, adverse loss development, earnings volatility, catastrophe exposure, concentration risk, and potential capital impacts,
• Perform and evaluate stress testing, scenario analysis, and capital assessments to identify potential downside exposures.
• Monitor reinsurance programs, risk-transfer strategies, collateral arrangements, and counterparty credit exposures.
• Monitor catastrophe exposures, geographic concentrations, and risk-accumulation trends across the P&C platform.
• Participate in Own Risk and Solvency Assessment activities, regulatory reporting, annual risk assessments, and emerging-risk reviews
• Translate actuarial and capital analyses into clear recommendations for business leaders, senior management, ERM committees, and Board-level discussions.
• Evaluate the risk and capital implications of potential P&C acquisitions, new programs, portfolio changes, and market expansion opportunities.
• Support the integration of acquired businesses and their risk management practices into Protective’s enterprise risk framework.
• Promote a strong risk culture through education, communication, collaboration, and constructive challenge.
• Provide constructive, independent challenge of business assumptions, actuarial analyses, risk assessments, and management decisions.
• Provide independent actuarial and ERM advice on business growth, risk-taking activities, acquisitions, strategic initiatives, and emerging risks.
• Assess insurance risk exposures relative to Protective’s risk appetite, limits, tolerances, and capital framework.
• Develop and enhance P&C risk metrics, key risk indicators, dashboards, limits, monitoring processes, and escalation procedures.
• Analyze profitability, underwriting performance, adverse loss development, earnings volatility, catastrophe exposure, concentration risk, and potential capital impacts,
• Perform and evaluate stress testing, scenario analysis, and capital assessments to identify potential downside exposures.
• Monitor reinsurance programs, risk-transfer strategies, collateral arrangements, and counterparty credit exposures.
• Monitor catastrophe exposures, geographic concentrations, and risk-accumulation trends across the P&C platform.
• Participate in Own Risk and Solvency Assessment activities, regulatory reporting, annual risk assessments, and emerging-risk reviews
• Translate actuarial and capital analyses into clear recommendations for business leaders, senior management, ERM committees, and Board-level discussions.
• Evaluate the risk and capital implications of potential P&C acquisitions, new programs, portfolio changes, and market expansion opportunities.
• Support the integration of acquired businesses and their risk management practices into Protective’s enterprise risk framework.
• Promote a strong risk culture through education, communication, collaboration, and constructive challenge.
Core Competencies (Skills, knowledge and abilities)
- Deep knowledge of P&C insurance risks, products, underwriting, pricing, claims, reserving, reinsurance, and capital management.
- Strong understanding of enterprise risk management principles and their application within an insurance carrier.
- Ability to evaluate business decisions from actuarial, enterprise risk, and capital management perspectives.
- Strong actuarial judgment, quantitative analysis, and structured problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to evaluate complex financial and risk information, identify material implications, and develop actionable recommendations.
- Strategic thinking and business acumen, including the ability to balance growth, profitability, capital, and risk considerations.
- Ability to provide objective, independent challenge while maintaining strong and productive business partnerships.
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex actuarial and risk concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to establish credibility and influence business and senior leaders across organizational boundaries.
- Sound judgment and effective decision-making in complex, changing, or ambiguous situations.
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and contribute with limited direction.
- Intellectual curiosity and a commitment to continuous learning, process improvement, and emerging risk awareness.
- Ability to use artificial intelligence tools responsibly to enhance learning, analysis, and business processes.
Required Qualifications
- Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society (ACAS) designation.
- At least seven years of experience in Property & Casualty insurance, actuarial risk management, actuarial consulting, or a related P&C actuarial field.
- Direct P&C actuarial experience and a strong understanding of P&C insurance products and operations.
- Demonstrated knowledge of underwriting, claims, reinsurance, insurance risk, and capital management.
- Experience performing or evaluating complex actuarial, financial, capital, or enterprise risk analyses.
- Demonstrated ability to translate technical analyses into clear business insights and recommendations.
- Experience communicating with and influencing leaders and stakeholders across multiple functions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS) designation.
- Warranty, asset protection, specialty insurance, or related P&C product experience.
- Enterprise risk management experience within a P&C insurance carrier.
- Experience advising business leaders from both actuarial and enterprise risk management perspectives.
- Experience evaluating capital requirements, capital adequacy, or risk-based capital implications for P&C businesses.
- Experience supporting acquisitions, actuarial due diligence, business integrations, or organizational transformation initiatives.
- Familiarity with Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA) requirements, insurance regulatory reporting, and risk governance frameworks.
- Experience developing or evaluating stress tests, scenario analyses, or capital models.
- Working knowledge of catastrophe modeling platforms and catastrophe-risk management practices.
- Experience developing risk appetite measures, key risk indicators, dashboards, risk limits, or senior-management risk reporting.
- Experience providing independent oversight or challenge within a second-line risk function.
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Employee Benefits:
We aim to protect the wellbeing of our employees and their families with a broad benefits offering. In addition to offering comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance, we support emotional wellbeing through mental health benefits and an employee assistance program. Work/life balance is important and Protective offers a variety of paid time away benefits (e.g., paid time off, paid parental leave, short-term disability, and a cultural observance day). The financial health of our employees is just as important as physical and emotional health. Some of the financial wellbeing benefits include contributions to healthcare accounts, a pension plan, and a 401(k) plan with Company matching. All employees are encouraged to protect their overall wellbeing by engaging in ProHealth Rewards, Protective’s platform to improve wellbeing while earning cash rewards.
Eligibility for certain benefits may vary by position in accordance with the terms of the Company’s benefit plans.
Accommodations for Applicants with a Disability:
If you require an accommodation to complete the application and recruitment process due to a disability, please email eric.hess@protective.com. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application and recruitment process.
Please note that the above email is solely for individuals with disabilities requesting an accommodation. General employment questions should not be sent through this process.
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