Senior IFRS 17 Actuary
- Challenge
- A role it had struggled to fill for months.
- Approach
- We mapped the small pool of qualified specialists and matched on capability and long term goals.
Still leading the function, more than three years on.
Specialist talent. Lasting impact. Since 2014.
Specialist talent
for financial services
We help insurers, reinsurers, banks, consultancies and capability centres hire the specialist talent that is hardest to find, across actuarial, risk, analytics, audit and the leadership above them.
Founder-led replies within one business day · a short, no-obligation conversation before any CVs
Trusted by leading insurers, reinsurers, consultancies and financial services organisations.
Since 2014
specialist BFSI search
80%
screening ratio, candidates we submit get interviewed
85%
joining ratio, offers that become joiners
<15
fees returned since 2014
Measured across every mandate we have run since 2014, and backed by a 90 day replacement guarantee on retained work.
The industries we serve
We know your industry, beyond recruitment
Every part of financial services hires differently. A reinsurer building a catastrophe team, a global capability centre scaling its actuarial bench, a consultancy staffing a client engagement, each faces a different talent market. We work across all of them, and we know what each one needs.
Our specialisms sit at the centre of every industry we serve.
- InsuranceLife, general and health insurers hiring across the full specialist spectrum.
- ReinsuranceTreaty, catastrophe and specialty talent for reinsurers and their partners.
- GCCsBuilding and scaling specialist functions inside global capability centres.
- ConsultingSpecialist talent for the consultancies that serve financial services.
- Pensions and InvestmentsActuarial and analytics talent for pensions, investment and wealth firms.
- InsurTechTalent at the meeting point of insurance and technology.
- FinTechSpecialist hires for financial technology firms building regulated products.
- BankingRisk, analytics and audit specialists for banks, a practice we are actively building.
We started by solving one of the hardest hiring challenges in financial services: actuarial talent. Since 2014, our clients have trusted us to build the functions around it, risk and financial advisory, audit, analytics, data, AI, and the leadership above them. Actuarial is our foundation. It is not our limit.
Specialities
Deep in the specialities that are hardest to hire
These functions are one connected ecosystem. The firm that understands your actuarial team usually understands your risk, analytics and audit functions just as well, which is why our clients start with one speciality and stay for several.
Actuarial
Pricing, reserving, capital, IFRS 17 implementation and actuarial leadership.
Risk and Financial Advisory
Enterprise, quantitative and model risk, and financial and transaction advisory.
Analytics
Insurance analytics, data science, and AI and model governance.
Audit
Internal audit, insurance specific audit, and model validation.
We also recruit across data engineering and cloud, IT, catastrophe modelling, leadership hiring, management consulting, underwriting and claims.
How we work with you
Four ways to engage us
Different hiring problems call for different engagements. Whether you need one critical hire handled discreetly, a flow of specialist roles, an embedded hiring partner, or a whole function built from scratch, there is a model that fits.
Retained Search
For critical, senior and confidential hires, handled as a dedicated, in depth search.
Contingency
For active specialist roles, where you pay on results.
RPO
An embedded hiring partner for sustained, ongoing recruitment at scale.
Capability Build
To stand up a whole function from scratch, such as a GCC, an IFRS 17 team or a new analytics unit.
We advise before we recruit, what to hire, in what order, and at what cost.
Corridors
Specialist talent, across borders
Financial services talent moves internationally, and so do we. From our base in India, we place specialists across a growing set of corridors, and we understand both sides of each move: what the employer needs, and what the candidate is weighing.
India
Our home and deepest market, and the delivery hub for everything we do.
UAE
Actuarial, risk and analytics teams for insurers and consultancies.
Asia Pacific
Actuarial, risk and analytics talent for insurers and financial services firms across the region.
Bermuda
BuildingActuarial, reinsurance and risk talent for the world’s reinsurance hub.
USA
Insurance, analytics and leadership talent for the US market. Selective.
Market intelligence
The BFSI Talent Pulse
Monthly intelligence on hiring demand, scarce skills, emerging roles and the international talent corridors. It is the same market read we use to advise our clients, published every month, and free to follow.
This month: model risk and AI governance are the fastest rising hires in BFSI capability centres. The experienced actuarial middle remains the scarcest band. The India to GIFT City corridor is heating up as reinsurers expand.
Hiring demand by functionJul 2026
Actuarial
Risk
Analytics
Audit
Technology
Lower demandHigher demand
Intelligence worth reading
All insightsWe partner with leading insurers, reinsurers and consultancies, working with the India teams of these organisations.
Global insurersTop-tier reinsurersBig Four and strategy consultanciesBFSI capability centresRegulated FinTechs
Shagun is well connected in her domain of expertise, takes the time to understand and validate capability fitment to requirements, dogged in her follow up of opportunities and proactive in her updates. What I found interesting was her expecting the same of her team as well.
Shagun has always been a delight to work with. She understands the requirement of the role well and suggests candidates accordingly. She is very professional in her approach and I have been able to hire good candidates through her firm.
The right fit, years later
Read our success storiesHead of Model Risk
- Challenge
- A head of model risk who could satisfy both the business and the regulator.
- Approach
- Our deep search and multi round screening found a candidate aligned on both.
Promoted once, and still in the team.
Recognised by the industry
From our founder
I started EliteRecruitments in 2014 because specialist hiring in financial services was being done by generalists, and it showed. Since then, our clients come to us first for the hardest roles, and they stay because we understand the functions around them just as deeply. If you are building something that needs specialist people, I would like to hear about it.
Shagun Gupta · Founder, EliteRecruitments
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
What does EliteRecruitments specialise in?
EliteRecruitments is a specialist BFSI recruitment firm founded in 2014. It recruits across actuarial, risk and financial advisory, analytics, audit, underwriting, claims, catastrophe modelling, insurance technology and leadership for insurers, reinsurers, banks, consultancies, FinTech and InsurTech firms, pensions organisations and global capability centres.
Which countries does EliteRecruitments recruit in?
India is EliteRecruitments’ home and deepest market. The firm is active in the UAE, works selectively in the United States and supports developing corridors including Bermuda and Asia Pacific. Geographic coverage depends on the mandate; it does not imply a local office or unrestricted candidate mobility in every market.
Why use a specialist financial services recruiter instead of a general agency?
Specialist BFSI roles depend on distinctions that titles and keywords often hide: product, regulation, qualification, technical depth and the candidate’s actual responsibility. EliteRecruitments uses dedicated practices to test those details before submitting a profile, so employers receive a focused shortlist rather than a large unscreened funnel.
Can EliteRecruitments build a complete team or capability centre?
Yes. Through Capability Build Recruitment, EliteRecruitments helps define a team structure, sequence anchor and specialist hires, map the market and recruit the people needed to establish or scale a function. The firm builds the talent capability; it does not provide legal, tax, property or entity-setup services.
How can an employer engage EliteRecruitments?
Employers can use retained search for senior, scarce or confidential appointments; contingency recruitment for suitable active roles; RPO for sustained hiring capacity; or Capability Build Recruitment for a complete team or function. EliteRecruitments recommends the model after understanding the role, urgency, volume and level of search commitment.
How does EliteRecruitments assess candidates?
Assessment is based on evidence of capability rather than keyword matching. The recruiter checks technical scope, sector context, seniority, personal contribution, career motivation and fit with the mandate. For senior searches, this may include deeper market mapping, structured interviews and direct involvement from a practice leader or founder.
Do candidates pay EliteRecruitments?
No. Candidates do not pay EliteRecruitments for access to a vacancy, interview or offer. The hiring organisation engages and pays the firm. Anyone requesting money, banking credentials or unofficial training payments in the EliteRecruitments name should be verified through the contact details published on eliterecruitments.com.
How can I verify that an EliteRecruitments message is genuine?
Check that the sender uses an official EliteRecruitments contact route, that the role and process can be explained clearly and that no payment is requested. Do not send banking information or money to secure a role. If uncertain, contact EliteRecruitments independently through eliterecruitments.com before sharing sensitive documents.
Building something that needs specialist people?
Tell us what you are building. We will tell you honestly what the talent market will let you do, and how to get there.