Actuarial Placement Student

Actuarial Undergraduate Placement Scheme

Location: London, Salford Quays (Manchester) & Staines

Hybrid working options available

Duration: 1 Year Rotation

Salary: £25,000 - £27,500 per year (dependent on location) + Fantastic Benefits

Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week

Start Date: September 2026

We’re known as a leading healthcare group, with 60 million customers worldwide. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers. Our purpose is to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives and make a better world.

Gain a deep and valuable insight into the actuarial world after your second year at university with our 12-month undergraduate industrial placement.

During the placement, you’ll complete a rotation in one of our actuarial functions, which may include:

• Pricing
• Reserving
• Regulatory Reporting
• Claims Analytics
• Group Actuarial

No two days are the same during the 12-month placement. You’ll face a mix of challenges, mutual support, and accelerated skills development through our development programme. You’ll also shadow senior colleagues to gain valuable insight and enhance your network.

At the end of a successful placement, there is the potential to be fast-tracked for a place on our graduate scheme.

What we’re looking for:

Do you want to make a difference to people’s lives? Bupa does, and not only for its customers but for all its employees. If you share our ambition and are passionate about people and putting customers first, then Bupa is the perfect place to start your actuarial career.

Qualifications and Training:

• Must have the right to work in the UK
• Current undergraduate student in your penultimate year of your degree
• Numerical based degree, such as Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or Economics
• Be on track to achieve at least a 2.1 in your degree
• Have achieved an ABB at A-Level or equivalent, with a minimum grade in A-Level in Maths (or equivalent)

Skills and Knowledge:

• Curious and inquisitive, challenging the status quo
• Flexible and adaptable, tenacious and resilient
• An interest in developing deep analysis of large data sets using tools such as AI and coding
• Effective self-organisation and ability to plan ahead
• Positive, can-do attitude, proactive and take the initiative
• Good problem-solving and analytical skills
• Team player, able to work collaboratively with others
• Strong self-awareness with a drive for personal development
• Able to take a commercial approach
• Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills

What else we offer you:

We specialise in wellbeing. Looking after our colleagues and their wellbeing is our priority. Alongside an attractive starting salary, you’ll have access to a range of benefits, including discounted gym memberships and support for your physical and mental wellbeing.

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. Our customers are our focus, and our people are driven by the purpose of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa” and champion diversity. We especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. We’re committed to ensuring fair treatment during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments as needed.

We’ll review your application, and if successful, you’ll complete some online ability tests as part of the application process. If you succeed at this stage, we’ll invite you to a video interview where you can share more about yourself. The final stage will be an assessment day, likely to take place virtually.

Time Type: Full time

Job Area: Actuarial

Locations: Angel Court, London; Bupa Place, Staines - Willow House