Associate Data Science Actuary
Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chesterfield • Connecticut, Massachusetts, Montana, New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $114,750 - $175,450 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
Tech Stack
OraclePythonSQLVBA
About the role
- Lead, design, create, and interpret end-to-end models with a typical focus on mortality within longevity markets.
- Support Pricing team with insights from large datasets and support efforts to adopt robust bespoke assumptions in quotes.
- Evaluate new external data sources and explore new applications of non-traditional data sources for RGA in its various regions.
- Participate in the development and enhancement of underlying processes and recommends improvements in data analysis /modeling best practice standards.
- Communicate with a variety of stakeholders at various levels of seniority.
- Offer risk management skills to any data processing or modeling exercise: Understand business context & where material scope for error lies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Math, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Computer Science or related field
- FSA accreditation or equivalent
- Minimum of 6 or more years of actuarial experience in life insurance/reinsurance/pension risk transfer
- 2+ years statistical on-the-job modeling experience (not exam based) for insurance or related applications (Regression, Decision Trees, Time Series, etc.)
- Statistical programs/languages (R or Python)
- Spreadsheet skills (Excel/VBA) and database applications (SQL, Snowflake, Oracle,...)
- Advanced predictive modeling skills
- Tree-based models, GLMs, GAMs, etc.
- Basic Statistical concepts for feature engineering (e.g. percentiles, standardization, correlations, risk ratios / chi-square test, splines, and other non-linear transformations)
- Proactive use of insurance expertise & actuarial concepts to feature engineering and model evaluation
- Advanced exploratory data analysis skills - Plots and graphics (BI/ggplot)
Benefits
- Annual bonus plan
- Participation in long-term equity incentive plan
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Full range of employee benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
actuarial experiencestatistical modelingpredictive modelingregressiondecision treestime seriesfeature engineeringexploratory data analysisbasic statistical conceptstree-based models
Soft skills
communicationrisk managementstakeholder engagementdata analysisprocess improvement
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeFSA accreditation