Global CERA
The global CERA is the internationally recognised Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary (CERA) designation, awarded to actuaries who specialise in Enterprise Risk Management.
About Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuaries
CERAs are professionals who combine the educational, ethical and intellectual standards of an actuary with a deeper understanding of risk – and of how to manage it - in complex environments.
Benefits of becoming a CERA:
- Expanded career options: You’ll show your appetite for senior management and executive roles focused on strategic or broader risk management
- Cross-industry appeal: You’ll demonstrate transferable risk management skills applicable in diverse sectors beyond traditional actuarial fields
- International recognition: The designation is acknowledged worldwide, beneficial for those considering global career opportunities.
Why should employers hire a CERA?
- Confident decision making: CERAs make confident decisions related to complex financial challenges affecting business by applying qualitative and quantitative insights to risk management
- Holistic view: 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
- Ethical: As actuaries, CERAs are bound by a code of professional conduct to act with integrity, care and competence
- Up-to-date strategic knowledge: CERAs are trained through a rigorous multi‐year examination process to identify, measure, and manage risks and opportunities within complex enterprises
- Real-world modelling: CERAs are equipped to develop models which reflect the real world and can inform strategic decisions.
Receive your global designation
How to become a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary
Be a qualified actuary and a member
This means you must have successfully completed our Foundation and Actuary Programs and met the requirements for using the Associate (AIAA) designation.
If you studied before 2022...
Complete, or receive the exemption for Course 7A - Enterprise Risk Management, which consists of the UK SP9 Examination and an ERM workshop.
If you studied after 2022...
Complete the ERM - Enterprise Risk Management subject under the Fellowship Program, or achieve the ERM microcredential Professional Certificate^.
^ If you’re completing the microcredential and wishing to apply for the CERA designation, you must be an Actuaries Institute member.
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