Job Demand: High
Average weekly wage: $1,769
Where you could work:
Banks - NAB, ANZ, Commonwealth Banks, Wespac
Insurance Companies - Suncorp
Superannuation Companies - Sunsuper
Actuaries do the following tasks:
- Defining, analysing and solving complex financial and business problems relating to areas such as insurance premiums, annuities, superannuation funds, pensions and dividends
- Examining financial projections for general insurance companies, finance companies, government and other organisations
- Designing new types of policies, assessing risks and analysing investments in life insurance, superannuation funds, health insurance, friendly societies, financial markets and other areas
- Formulating mathematical models to simulate processes applying models to experimental observations, and adjusting and recasting the models using numerical analysis methods to develop algorithms and perform computations
- Evaluating and describing the reliability and utility of source information
- Analysing and interpreting data, and producing relevant statistics to describe trends and patterns