Independent talent for insurance
Pre-vetted independent specialists in actuarial, IFRS 17, pricing, underwriting, claims, risk and digital. Each one has delivered inside an insurer, ready to deploy on your reporting, transformation and regulatory programmes in days.
Built by insurers. For insurers.
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Built for the realities of insurance
Insurance is changing on every front at once. IFRS 17 has to be sustained long after go-live, the actuarial market is stretched thin, and core systems, claims, pricing and underwriting all need modernising at the same time. The skills that deliver this work are scarce, expensive to hire permanently, and rarely sitting idle. Outsized connects insurers and reinsurers with independent specialists who have built and run these functions themselves. We were founded by people who have sat in your seat, so we know what good looks like, and what does not.
The insurance expertise clients ask us for most
Finance & Actuarial
Pricing, reserving, capital and valuations, IFRS 17 position papers and product coding, and modelling in Prophet and similar tools, across life, short-term, health and reinsurance. Specialists who run the numbers, not just advise on them.
Risk, Compliance & Regulation
Prudential and market conduct, ORSA, regulatory reporting and control frameworks. People who have led remediation programmes and built enterprise risk frameworks under real regulatory scrutiny, and understand the operational reality of meeting it.
Delivery & Change
Complex programmes need people who have run them before. Our delivery specialists have stood up PMOs and run multi-workstream change for IFRS 17, core system migrations and claims transformation. They bring structure without bureaucracy and know how to land change that sticks.
Digital & Technology
Core modernisations stall. Data programmes lose direction. Cloud projects overrun. Our digital and technology specialists have led these programmes inside major insurers and know how to keep them moving, across policy administration, cloud, data platforms and API integration.
Product & Innovation
Our product specialists have built and shipped across insurance, payments and microfinance platforms. They know what it takes to move from concept to live product in a highly regulated environment, and they have done it inside insurers before.
Strategy & Growth
Our strategy specialists have sat in the seat, leading market entry, redesigning operating models and building growth strategies from the inside. They bring real execution experience, not just frameworks, and can own the outcome from strategy through to implementation.
How insurers use Outsized
IFRS 17 compliance for AVBOB, delivered ahead of the deadline
AVBOB, a leading insurer with over a century in funeral insurance, faced a demanding IFRS 17 compliance deadline with the actuarial market at capacity. They needed a rare specialist combining IFRS 17, actuarial valuations and Prophet, ready to deliver at speed.
Challenge:
AVBOB needed a rare skill set: IFRS 17, actuarial valuations and Prophet, with a fixed deadline approaching and qualified actuaries in short supply. Getting it wrong would put regulatory approval and reputation at risk.
Solution:
Outsized quickly presented three specialist firms, each evaluated on IFRS 17 depth, Prophet skills, location and budget. AVBOB selected the right partner and onboarded with minimal delay.
Impact:
AVBOB achieved IFRS 17 compliance ahead of the deadline. The specialists integrated seamlessly, timelines accelerated, and every reporting requirement was met without disruption.
Read more here.
We couldn’t afford to get this wrong. Our contact at Outsized understood exactly what we needed, and saved us time while ensuring the right fit in skills, location and budget.
– Colin van Son, Chief Risk Officer, AVBOB
Built by insurers, for clients who expect more.
Most talent partners have never worked a day in insurance. Outsized was founded by people who have. With access to 60,000+ independent professionals globally, we deliver depth, coverage and uncompromising quality. We are not a job board. We are not a longlisting service. We are your curated talent partner.
Johann van Niekerk
EMEA Lead
Qualified actuary with 15 years in insurance and reinsurance at Metropolitan Life and RGA. Founded RGA Ventures and built Outsized’s South African operation from the ground up.
Experience from:
Niclas Thelander
Founder & CMO
Career built across European financial services at SEB, KPMG, and Atradius, followed by private equity at LeapFrog Investments and co-founding a European insurance MGA.
Experience from:
Azeem Zainulbhai
EMEA Co-Lead
Investment banking and private equity background at Merrill Lynch and Bank of America, followed by CFO and Chief of Staff roles at fintech and marketplace scale-ups.
Experience from:
Build agile financial services teams powered by top independent talent
In financial services, agility, innovation, and compliance must go hand-in-hand. Outsized enables clients to scale delivery capacity through specialised independent professionals who understand FS environments – from transformation and risk to digital, data, product, and innovation.
Talent-on-Demand
Quickly close capability and capacity gaps for your core functions and project teams. Onboard talent in days, not weeks or months. Access our platform of top independent consultants, skilled contractors, and seasoned experts with deep execution experience.
Outsized Teams
Outsized Teams deliver complete project outcomes through agile, hand-picked teams of proven consultants and experts. Each team is built to your brief and mobilised fast – with lower overheads, transparent pricing, and hands-on management from your Outsized Capability Lead.
Bench by Outsized
Bench gives always-on access to curated and continuously updated and maintained talent pools of top-tier independents across high-priority skill areas. Outsized guarantees quality, depth and availability of talent, so you can immediately deploy skills as and when you need them.
Contract-to-Hire
Speed up and de-risk hiring for both you and the talent. With our Contract-to-Hire model, employers and talent get to know each other during a ‘try before you buy’ period – ensuring a great match for both sides. Escape lengthy, broken recruitment processes and confirm suitability through on-the-job performance.
Meet some of our insurance specialists
Motlatsi Rasephali
Actuary
Qualified actuary with 10+ years in life insurance, specialising in SAM calculations, IFRS 17, Prophet modelling, embedded value, and actuarial pricing for major insurers.
Hester Mostert
Operations & Compliance Specialist
Financial services operations specialist with 10 years across compliance, portfolio management, and client services, delivering regulatory uplift and process improvement for FS firms.
Mfanafuthi Khumalo
Test Analyst
Senior QA Test Analyst with 19 years’ experience in UAT, Salesforce, CRM, and system integration testing across banking, consulting and technology programmes.
Read about our insurance work
Navigating IFRS 17 compliance for AVBOB
How Outsized helped AVBOB, who were facing a demanding IFRS 17 compliance deadline with South Africa’s actuarial talent market at capacity.
Actuarial graduate talent pool for Old Mutual
How Outsized helped Old Mutual in quickly hiring junior actuarial grads through Bench
Data and Analytics specialists for South African retail bank
How Outsized helped a large SA bank scale up with the help of skilled independent talent.
Let’s talk about your insurance talent needs
Insurers are operating in one of the most demanding capability environments anywhere. Regulatory deadlines are fixed. Actuarial and specialist talent is structurally scarce. The organisations that maintain delivery momentum build structured access to senior independent expertise before they need it urgently. Outsized gives insurers and reinsurers access to pre-vetted independent talent that is fast to deploy and genuinely experienced in delivery. Whether you need a single specialist this week, a team built for a complex programme, or an always-on talent bench, we move quickly without compromising on quality. Tell us what you are working on and we will come back to you straight away.