Actuarial Trainee, Risk – Capital Management at NFU Mutual

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What are the Best and Worst things about your job?

Best

Being in a projects-based team, the workload is generally not too demanding; the work is usually interesting and most of the time involves coming up with new ideas or approaches; the work-life balance (not including exam study) is excellent; hybrid working is very flexible.

Worst

There is a wide variety of work to be done so I sometimes end up working on something I do not find interesting; internal spreadsheet organisation can be a bit of a mess which can make completing tasks more difficult.

What is the annual salary for this role?

Starting salary: £27,000 - £29,000

Current salary: £29,000 - £31,000

What hours do you actually work, on average?

Start: 09:00

Finish: 17:00

What advice would you give to someone applying to this role?

Ensure you have a few different aspects of life experience to highlight - for example, I had worked hospitality jobs throughout university and gained some management experience and I had played for the university football team and spent a season as vice captain. On top of that, they look for people with good academic records and if you didn't study actuarial science, it is probably a good idea to highlight any statistics or financial mathematics you have studied.

Do you have any interview tips?

The interview questions are fairly standard - they did not try to catch me out or put me on the spot with any of them. Because of the work culture, they are really looking for people who are friendly and have good people skills, not just people who can answer the questions well.