Workers'​ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB)

Actuary

• Leads the analysis and evaluation of statistical data pertaining to pure premium rates; identifies trends or cost drivers; prepares materials for committees or rate filings to evaluate impact of various cost drivers on pure premium rates.
• Leads actuarial analyses of aggregate data and ratemaking methodologies; recommends adjustments to actuarial ratemaking methodologies to the Vice President, Actuary and Chief Actuary; periodically validates appropriateness of methodologies.
• Provides key deliverables and correspondence with WCIRB members and other customers, such as the insurance department and governmental agencies, on complex data and other technical issues, with minimal or no supervision.
• Represents Actuarial department and provides subject matter expertise on actuarial data and data collection processes to representatives of other units of the WCIRB on various cross-functional projects and issues.
• Prepares, reviews, and analyzes various studies of aggregate and classification experience for rate filings and other reports produced by Actuarial Services included those presented to WCIRB Committees and Working Groups.
• Leads the Actuarial team’s efforts in collaboration with the IT department on the development and changes to applications used by the Actuarial team and customers to submit, retrieve, and/or analyze data.
• Supervises the development and maintenance of data products and oversees the fulfillment of data requirements pursuant to statutory and regulatory mandates.
• Performs peer reviews of analysts’ work.
• Supervises actuarial analysts in various aspects of analyses; oversees progress of projects and guides projects to completion in an accurate and timely manner.

Lead Actuarial Analyst

Data Analyst

• Assist with the implementation of medical and classification analytics projects through:
• Independently developing well-documented and reproducible scripts in SQL, R or Python for pulling and wrangling data for the Analyst’s own work and for the use of research staff in studies or to address ad-hoc requests
• Performing accuracy and reasonableness checks to assure quality of the working dataset is appropriate to each study
• Communicating clearly to research staff the rules employed to prepare the working datasets for study
• Assisting with statistical analyses (e.g., hypothesis testing, regression analysis, predictive modeling) to answer key research questions
• Developing data visualization to effectively highlight trends and patterns
• Preparing tables and figures to present analysis results in reports and presentations
• Assuring analysis results are accurate following the Data Analytics team review protocol
• Providing technical and peer review of other analysts’ work
• Communicating results via written and oral presentations
• Develop and maintain automation of routine analysis data and reporting tasks, including annual and quarterly medical benchmarking reports
• Interact and communicate with representatives of other units of the WCIRB on various analytics-related and operational projects and issues.