What do you do in Assurance and Acturial? Whats the difference?

Assurance is similar to audit

Ah okay! And actuarial?

In the sense that you're giving clients assurance of what their financial statements say. Actuarial is to do with risk management. In actuarial there are 3 departments: Life insurance, general and pension. It's entirely based around insurance

Ah! Alright that makes sense!

Whereas assuarance is more like checking different companies financial statements etc. I recommend actuarial!

How do you find the actuarial programme at EY? And what does a day in the role of an actuarial consultant looks like?

It's pretty good. You get 42 study days a year. You get your exams and study material paid for. I spend a lot of time on excel

That sounds fantastic - did you come from the same background? Or did you study something else?

Although there are all sorts of opportunities to code and do all that kind of stuff. I did economics and econometrics

Great! I come from a hospitality and tourism background - so my only worry is how I would adjust to that change!

Do you have a maths A level?

When you start out on the actuarial program - they do give you training right?