Senior Actuarial Analyst, Auto Planning & Monitoring

Description

The Auto Planning & Monitoring team within USRM Risk & Analytics is seeking a talented Senior Actuarial Analyst! Our team is responsible for crafting a holistic and compelling opinion of the loss ratio and topline as part of the quarterly Plan, as well as analyzing, synthesizing, monitoring, and communicating emerging trends to a broad group of stakeholders.

In this role, you will collaborate with multiple teams and functional areas across the organization in the planning & monitoring system. You will work as part of the team that supports the development of financial forecasts via key opinions and communicates insights and findings to a broad group of stakeholders as well as senior leadership. You will own the maintenance and building of critical tools used to upload quarterly forecasts and explain key planning metrics (written premium, policies in force, frequency,

severity, loss ratio) and how those are built up from the broader team's analysis.

This role may have in-office requirements dependent upon candidate location.

Responsibilities:

• Provide recommendations for and assist in the creation and maintenance of tools and dashboards that support the quarterly forecast upload and monthly monitoring of loss and premium trends.
• Monitor, investigate, and communicate drivers of results, including plan, variance-to-plan, and trends, through both the scheduled and ad-hoc processes.
• Ensure the timely delivery of planning and monitoring deliverables.
• Support claim volume forecasting.
• Perform ad hoc deep dives and requests spanning topics across the topline and loss teams.
• Effectively collaborate with cross-functional areas; appropriately interpret, collect, and generate sound and consistent perspectives.
• Provide clear and concise communication of technical work to broad audiences, cross-functionally, and to senior leadership. Innovate better ways to depict and explain plan changes and monitoring insights.
• While leveraging analytical, financial, and operational knowledge, utilize advanced data skills and tools, such as SAS, SQL, Snowflake, VBA, and PowerBI, to drive analytical and process improvements.
• Provide mentorship to junior members of the team.
• If applicable, positive progress toward pursuing and passing of required actuarial exams.

• Proven math and analytical skills, as normally acquired through the pursuit of a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Actuarial Science, or related field.
• Commitment to achieving Associateship or Fellowship in the Casualty Actuarial Society.
• Passing grades on a minimum of 5 Casualty Actuarial Exams is required.
• Minimum 3-5 years relevant experience required.
• Prior experience and solid knowledge of actuarial techniques and standards, as well as other business operations including financial, underwriting, legal, statistics, claims, sales, etc.
• Solid oral and written and presentation communication skills and ability to interact effectively within and outside the organization.
• Solid interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team environment as well as independently.
• Ability to motivate and mentor peers and motivate and train subordinates.
• Ability to exercise discretion, and apply independent judgment and well-developed critical thinking skills in execution of assignments and projects.
• Ability to balance multiple projects with minimal direction.
• Advanced computing skills (MS Office Excel, SAS, etc.); Ability to build models of moderate complexity.

• California
• Los Angeles Incorporated
• Los Angeles Unincorporated
• Philadelphia
• San Francisco