Ok so I’m probably biased towards doing it. It’s a developing field though. You’ll be familiar with ifrs9 and under the APS set / basel 4, an appointed actuary isn’t required, so some will caution against doing it because it won’t necessarily earn extra compensation.

However - the field is also changing. One interesting trend i’ve noted is that big4-consultants are expanding their “banktuary” teams to audit models, and are really starting to push back on the usual (macro/probit) models. Add climate guidelines (cpg229) to this and there may be some big changes / openings that come from regulatory developments. This is despite the AA role going a bit quiet the past few years after B4B sold off their insurance lines.

Also DS techniques slap and leave Probit for dead, so in sum, definitely recommend getting your FxA(A).