Grange Insurance

Director

• Lead a team of Data Scientists to research, create, and maintain advanced pricing and risk models
• Work with AVP, Enterprise Analytics to identify, adopt, and maintain best practices
• Advise Product Managers on modifications of national product models
• Ensure efficient, effective, and scalable platform for pricing, underwriting, and claims models
• Establish and maintain best practice routines for model maintenance
• Develop data mining techniques and statistical modeling tools
• Research and utilize market data to improve premium prediction capabilities
• Analyze business models and strategies for effectiveness
• Review/refine national product models for adaptability and profitability
• Partner with corporate IT for technology solutions
• Hire, train, and motivate data scientists

Director, Property & Casualty Analytics

Financial Planning and Analysis

• provide insight into operational and financial business performance through analysis of results versus budget, forecast, and historical performance
• develop and drive the planning and forecasting process
• proactively work to improve/translate data from accounting, actuarial, and investment functions into financial forecasts
• prepare, analyze, and present operational budgets relative to actual performance
• collaborate with functional and technical team members on implementation projects

Financial Planning, Budgeting Analyst

• Prepares and presents financial forecasts(annual and quarterly), including the analysis of trends and the evaluation of resulting recommendations.
• Works with senior management to assist in implementing chosen recommendation(s).
• Prepares and presents operational budgets based on actual performance, previous budget figures, estimated revenues, losses, expense forecasts and other factors.
• Analyzes actual operational results in relationship to plan, allowable, past experience and long-range objectives.
• Analyzes actual operating budgets to estimated budget.
• Reports performance provides insights and advises management on recommended options.
• Prepares and presents complex financial data for internal stakeholders as well as external regulatory agencies and other entities.
• Identifies trends, highlights variances and recommends adjustments in programs and processes to management as they relate to financial targets.
• Recommends ideas for continuous improvement of financial process and tools, leads the development of the revised process/tool as well as develops plan to implement the ideas and gain alignment across all stakeholders.
• Recommends and takes ownership of new financial analysis techniques and measurements for internal reporting purposes.
• Leads the development of efficient analytical and planning models that capture key financial data.
• Prepares a variety of reports analyzing and detailing premiums, losses, and expenses.
• Performs in-depth financial analysis including reviews of the impact of variances from plan.
• Assesses the need to develop corrective action plans.
• Leads the process of defining and building financial planning routines that efficiently leverage data from multiple sources.
• Serves as liaison between assigned business unit leadership and staff financial function.
• Supports and works with as well as independently of senior finance officer.
• Serves as a lead to update the business partner scorecards and proactively provides insights into variances and helps escalate issues.

Director, Property & Casualty Analytics

Financial Planning, Budgeting Analyst

Finance Planning Consultant