The 2026 Excel Ninja Challenge Starts This Week!
**REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN UNTIL MARCH 14**
Become an Excel Pro for Actuarial Roles!
Learn beginner to advanced Excel for actuarial interviews and on-the-job success.
Almost every actuarial employer wants a candidate that knows how to use Excel. In just 12 weeks, you’ll learn and practice the Excel skills you need to succeed, and you’ll get an Excel Ninja Certificate to add to your actuarial resume too!
Stand out to actuarial recruiters with Excel skills you can actually PROVE!
Here’s What It’s All About
The Excel Ninja Challenge is an 12-week challenge where you’ll get step-by-step support in learning Excel (and beginner VBA) through pre-recorded lessons and live help sessions (optional to attend, always recorded).
Everything is taught in an Actuarial Context so that you can relate it to work you may do in an actuarial role (full-time or internship).
By the end, you’ll have all the Excel skills you need to perform well on-the-job and impress actuarial recruiters during your interviews.
You’ll even get an Excel Ninja Certificate that you can add to your resume!
Here’s the schedule..
Week 1 – Excel terminology, cell references, formatting & more
Week 2 – Relative vs. absolute references
Week 3 – IF statements, nested formulas, random data & more
Week 4 – VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, named ranges
Week 5 – SUM formula, data validation, & more
Week 6 – Freeze View, Find & Replace
Week 7 – Index + Match, Sort & Filter
Week 8 – Complete Project # 1 (P&C ratemaking focus)
Week 9 – Pivot Tables
Week 10 – Graphing in Excel, Intro to VBA programming, creating macros
Week 11 – VBA looping, debugging code & more
Week 12 – Complete Project # 2 (P&C ratemaking focus)
Upon Completion – Receive your Excel Ninja Certificate of Completion to add to your actuarial resume.
Joining the Excel Ninja Challenge is super easy!
It all starts Monday, March 9th!
Why NOW is the Time to Learn Excel
Fall actuarial hiring season is happening right now (this is great to add to your resume) It’s a skill you should learn early, so that you can practice it in real-world scenarios before you get an actuarial job It’s the #1 most requested technical skill by actuarial employers
Here’s What Prior Participants Have to Say…
Participation Requirements
No prior knowledge of Excel is necessary
Will require approximately 1 hour per week (could take up to 4 hours on project weeks)
Excel license required (you can use Google Sheets for the first 7 weeks, and Microsoft has a 30 day free trial of Excel that you can use for the remainder of the challenge)
You can complete the challenge at your own convenience. Certificates will only be awarded to those that complete all projects by the official project deadline.
Must register on or before March 14th to participate and remain a member of the Actuary Accelerator Community until the end of the challenge (June 1).