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
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.
85%
of offers made become joiners
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, in India, the UAE, the USA and across international corridors.
Trusted by leading insurers, reinsurers, consultancies and financial services organisations.
11+
years of 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.
GIFT City
Specialist functions for firms establishing in India’s international financial services centre.
Bermuda
BuildingActuarial, reinsurance and risk talent for the world’s reinsurance hub.
UK
Pensions and actuarial talent for UK firms. Selective and senior.
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 do?
EliteRecruitments is a specialist BFSI and actuarial recruitment firm founded in 2014. We help insurers, reinsurers, banks, consultancies and global capability centres hire the specialist talent that is hardest to find, across actuarial, risk and financial advisory, analytics, audit, AI and leadership.
Which industries and roles does EliteRecruitments specialise in?
We recruit across insurance, reinsurance, global capability centres, consulting, pensions and investments, InsurTech, FinTech and banking. Our deepest expertise is in actuarial hiring, with strong practices in risk and financial advisory, analytics and audit, and the leadership roles above them.
Where does EliteRecruitments operate?
We are based in India and are active in India, the UAE and the USA, while building a growing set of international corridors including GIFT City, Bermuda and the UK. We place specialists both for local teams and for cross border moves.
What makes EliteRecruitments different from a generalist recruiter?
We are specialist only, so we understand the functions we hire for rather than just matching keywords. Candidates are deeply screened before any CV reaches you, which is why our joining rate is high, and fewer than fifteen fees have been returned since 2014. You also work directly with our founder and senior practice leaders, not a rotating account desk.
Does EliteRecruitments help build GCC teams in India?
Yes. Building and scaling specialist functions inside global capability centres is a core part of our work. Through Capability Build Recruitment we help design and staff entire functions, such as actuarial, risk or analytics teams, deciding what to hire, in what order and at what cost before the search begins.
How does EliteRecruitments engage with clients?
Through four models: Retained Search for critical and senior hires, Contingency for active specialist roles, RPO as an embedded hiring partner, and Capability Build Recruitment to stand up a whole function from scratch.
Who leads EliteRecruitments?
EliteRecruitments was founded in 2014 by Shagun Gupta, who leads the firm alongside named practice heads across actuarial, risk and financial advisory, analytics and audit. Clients work directly with senior leaders throughout the search.
How can I get in touch or find a role?
Employers can start a conversation through our contact page or by emailing info@eliterecruitments.com. Candidates can browse roles or register their interest confidentially, and we treat every approach discreetly.
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.