Description

YOUR NEXT CO-OP PLACEMENT

Work term: Spring 2027

Work term length: 4-month

From classroom to co-op to career, every step of your journey has an impact on your future. That’s why it makes sense to choose a co-op placement with a company that offers truly rewarding work and real-life experience. At Definity®, your contributions, creativity, and energy will be put to good use, and you’ll get to be involved with initiatives that support our strategic goals and use your skills in a supportive team environment.

If you’re looking for a company that takes care of its people — full time, part time, and co-ops alike — and has a track record of doing big things, get ready to love it here.

What can you expect in this role?

Reporting to an Actuarial Manager, you will play a key role in contributing to projects in personal or commercial pricing, reserving, financial planning and economic capital modelling using state of the art models and cutting-edge approaches. You will develop deep knowledge of actuarial operations and the insurance business, including predictive modelling, underwriting, claims handling, product development, reserving, estimation of policy liabilities, planning and/or forecasting

What you’ll be doing

- Develop and apply your experience with spreadsheets, databases, and statistical software to prepare and analyze data for profitability analysis and other diverse applications
- Learn to interpret and use results of new and innovative modelling techniques and analytics to drive business decisions
- Learn to produce various data exhibits and analysis to measure, track and monitor company and industry performance
- Learn to communicate actuarial concepts both verbally and in writing
- Respond to requests of internal and external stakeholders with support from more senior staff

What you bring





- Currently enrolled in a university degree program in Actuarial Sciences, Mathematics, Statistics or other relevant discipline and still actively enrolled until at least April 2025
- Must have successfully completed at least 1 exam of the Casualty Actuarial Society and/or of an international actuarial organization equivalently recognized by the Casualty Actuarial Society
- Must possess strong programming skills, including knowledge of SAS, R and/or SQL , and effective use of Microsoft applications (Excel,VBA, etc.);
- Knowledge of Emblem, Radar and/or ResQ is an asset
- Must have excellent problem solving, communication and organization skills

Did you know?

- We care about our co-ops: Definity’s co-op students are considered the best pipeline of talent for our full-time, permanent positions.
- We care about students: Definity distributes $85,000 in scholarships to students across Canada each year.
- We care about our community: Definity donates more than $1 million every year to causes that drive true change in the neighbourhoods in which we live and work.

What can Definity offer you?

- Meaningful work forwarding our purpose of building a better world by helping our clients and communities adapt and thrive in their hardest times of need.
- Culture of accountability, empowerment, and collaboration.
- Opportunities to support personal and professional growth through real-life experience and unique learning opportunities. Our Leadership Essentials program builds knowledge and skills to Team Leaders to Directors
- Opportunity to join our employee groups - focused on women's empowerment, LGBTQ+, anti-racism and cultural equity, and environmental activism
- Determined to create positive change for our environment, our people, and our communities, now and in the future. Check our ESG work!

📌 Actuarial Analyst - Summer 2027 Co-op/Intern (Waterloo)
🏢 Definity
📍 Waterloo