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What are the benefits?

Equip yourself to take on more diverse roles within organisations.

What is CERA?

How do I become a CERA?

What a CERA knows about ERM

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CPD requirements for qualified CERAs

Where do CERAs work?

CERAs play more diverse roles at organisations of all kinds—giving them greater exposure to the C-Suite and leadership, and empowering them to become a more highly-valued resource for a company.

Why qualify as a CERA?

Technically strong business focused credential
Global recognition
Consistent with modern, effective methodologies
Applies both qualitative and quantitative insight to ERM
Instils the highest professional standards with an impeccable code of ethics
Equips risk management professionals to empower better business decisions and more profitable business development

What are the benefits for me?

Actuaries are expanding the horizon of activity in the risk management space to meet the growing needs of the wider business world, while simultaneously using the skills of the profession’s growing membership to provide useful, stimulating and well-rewarded employment. CERAs are the risk professionals best qualified to lead an organisation’s enterprise risk management (ERM) programme.

Opening up opportunities for you outside the traditional actuarial work areas
Allowing you to contribute to a broad range of fields, not just including life insurance, general, insurance, banking, asset management, pension funds, healthcare insurance and other financial, services, but also opportunities in risk management within technology, energy, transportation – and others
Increasing your flexibility in career options
Providing a globally recognised and internationally transferable qualification
Improving your skills in assessing and managing the entire risk spectrum of an organisation, including financial, operational, strategic, and emerging
Qualifying you for more strategic risk management positions such as risk analyst, risk manager, Chief Risk Officer

What benefits can CERAs bring to an employer?

CERAs make confident decisions related to complex financial challenges affecting business by applying qualitative and quantitative insights to risk management
CERAs add value to enterprise risk management through their rigorous training, making them the best equipped to provide a 360-degree view of an organisation’s risk profile
As actuaries, CERAs are bound by a code of professional conduct to act with integrity, care and competence
CERAs are trained through a rigorous multi‐year examination process to identify, measure, and manage risks and opportunities within complex enterprises
CERAs are equipped to develop models which reflect the real world and can inform strategic decisions.

How does CERA work?

All CERAs have satisfied the requisite education and training requirements as set out in the Global CERA Treaty.

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Where do CERAs work?

The CERA credential adds value to a career. CERA offers a wide range of opportunities and gives you the chance to apply your mathematical and statistical skills to real life challenges.

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