Actuarial Industrial Placement
Application Deadline: 29 November 2026
Department: Performance Management, MI & Data Analytics
Employment Type: Fixed Term - Full Time
Location: UK - London
Description
Ready to take what you have learned at university and apply it to real business decisions?
CFC is a specialist insurance provider, a pioneer in emerging risk and a market leader in cyber. Our global insurance platform combines technology and data science to deliver smarter, faster underwriting and help protect businesses from today’s most critical risks.
Our Actuarial Industrial Placement is an immersive opportunity for you to gain real-world experience within a corporate actuarial environment. You will join our Pricing and Analytics team, part of the wider Performance Management function, and help deliver data-led solutions that support the growth and profitability of the business.
This is not a placement where you will spend a year watching from the sidelines. The work you contribute to will have a genuine impact across CFC, giving you the chance to see how actuarial thinking shapes pricing, portfolio strategy and commercial decision-making.
About the role
From day one, you will work alongside experienced actuarial, pricing pricing/reserving actuaries and insurance professionals on real projects and challenges.
You will have the opportunity to:
- Support the development and maintenance of pricing frameworks and methodologies across CFC’s insurance products
- Help test, implement, document and maintain pricing tools
- Maintain exposure data that is used to support analysis of CFC's portfolio risk concentrations
- Assist in undertaking of reserving reviews across CFC portfolio
- Work with underwriting, claims and technology teams to understand emerging risks and claims trends
- Carry out detailed analysis of pricing structures, assumptions and performance
- Explore new data and rating factors that could improve risk selection and long-term profitability
- Monitor key performance indicators to help identify strategic opportunities and support portfolio decisions
- Assist with pricing analysis for portfolio transfers and other commercial decisions
- Contribute to the development of new insurance products
- Collaborate with teams across reserving, management information, cyber modelling and capacity management
You will also gain exposure to teams across the wider business, including Proactive Cybersecurity, Incident Response, Software Development and Claims.
This is your chance to build real technical knowledge, commercial awareness and professional network while discovering where an actuarial career could take you.
About you
We are looking for curious, analytical students who enjoy solving problems and want their work to make an impact.
This placement will be a great fit if you:
- Are studying Actuarial Science or a closely related degree with the option of an industrial placement year in 2027
- Have strong analytical and numerical skills
- Enjoy working with data and turning analysis into clear insights
- Have excellent attention to detail
- Can communicate your ideas clearly, both verbally and in writing
- Are organised, proactive and comfortable working to deadlines
- Enjoy collaborating with different people and teams
- Have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Have experience with Python and/or SQL, although this would be beneficial rather than essential
- Are eligible to work in the UK and able to be based in our London office.
At CFC, we are passionate about thinking differently, challenging convention and building the insurance company of the future. If you want an industrial placement where you can learn quickly, contribute meaningfully and see the real-world impact of your work, we would love to hear from you.
Come join us.
Core Values
Love what you do:
We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.
Challenge everything:
We’re never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to makes things better.
Have fun, be good:
Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.
