P&C Actuary opening in New England.  Experienced actuary to manage its Line of Business unit; this newly created position will focus on special studies, market support, analytical tools, and coordination of portfolio modeling projects. Responsibilities: work with internal customers, IT, and portfolio modelers to coordinate data gathering, modeling and implementation; interact with market customers (underwriting, loss prevention, claims, actuarial, fraud) to create tools, benchmarks and research that support their initiatives; work on technical studies with pricing tools group; generate innovative ideas and approaches to business problems; manage a small staff of actuarial and/or business analysts. FCAS or near-FCAS with 5-10 years of progressively responsible experience, including supervisory experience, detailed knowledge of commercial lines (commercial ratemaking experience would be a plus), modeling knowledge a plus, strong analytical skills with a solid understanding of casualty actuarial techniques, standards, and assumptions.  Salary $open. (PR5831)

P&C Loss Analytics Actuary opening in New England.  This newly created actuarial position will focus on driving state specific improvements in workers compensation claim outcomes, evaluating and monitoring state reforms, helping identify cost drivers and potential opportunities to reduce costs, and improving the company's understanding of claims related issues and implications on pricing, reserving, operations, and financial results.  Primary responsibilities include: analyzing claim outcomes, drivers of loss trends, and deviations from expectations in key states and using this information to help the company respond appropriate to such trends; evaluating and monitoring workers compensation reforms, communicating the expected and actual impacts throughout the organization and coordinating efforts related to such reforms with Claims and Public Affairs; building and maintaining tools to facilitate such reform analyses; providing Claims and Managed Care departments with support in development and implementation of state specific programs and tools and providing impact assessments of such programs once implemented, incorporating actuarial analyses and predictive modeling into such work as appropriate; facilitating knowledge sharing between the various Claims and Actuarial groups so that this knowledge can be used to improve pricing, reserving, operations, and financials; help drive public policy and support public affairs and reform initiatives on claims related issues; manage a small staff of actuarial analysts and/or business analysts. Ideal candidate is a FCAS with 5+ years of experience, strong analytical skills with solid understanding of actuarial techniques, insurance operations, and claims operations.  Salary $open. (PR5830)

Accident & Health Actuary opening in Multiple Locations throughout the US! Responsible for developing and filing Accident & Health insurance programs on a countrywide basis as well as estimating reserves for employee benefits coverage for insurers, captives and self-insureds. ASA or FSA with a minimum of 8 years of experience in developing and filing Accident & Health insurance products and reserving for employee benefit programs. Must be proficient in Excel and Word and be able to successfully multi-task in a fast-paced environment.  Salary $open. (PR5828)

Health Actuarial Analyst opening in Connecticut.  Perform actuarial analyses for Commercial and Medicare business including: Medical and Rx Cost trend analysis; assist in the development of, financial forecasts; preparing recast income statements; estimating IBNR claim reserves; reporting reinsurance and stop loss claims for recovery, and ad hoc actuarial analyses and reporting. Specific responsibilities: analyze key product performance measures including, medical and Rx cost trends, premium yields, book-of-business loss ratios; tracks trends and reports pertinent financial and utilization information to support internal business partners; apply sound actuarial principles to all financial/pricing/trend analysis and to all aspects of decision-making processes; demonstrate independent decision-making capability; analyze historical medical expenses, and project future medical expenses and required revenues for Commercial and Medicare product lines; develop/enhance ad hoc reports to assist in financial analyses of operating results and support for actuarial analyses key to understanding financial position; assess the financial impact of variations in provider contracting strategy and assists in developing the necessary methodology to manage unit costs over time; maintain large databases of information utilizing a unique skill set of spreadsheet and relational database expertise; assist in the assessment of the pricing impact of all relevant senior management policy decisions, including changes in products, underwriting policy, provider contracts, etc.; ensure proper financial and reporting logic is provided to Information Services and is responsible for subsequent user testing before implementation. Ideal candidate will have 2+ years of actuarial health experience and 2+ SOA exams. Salary $open. (PR5825)

Medical Economics Analyst opening in Connecticut. Support medical operations, network operations, actuarial and underwriting decision-making; design and develop unique methods to information analysis which will allow senior management to draw conclusions about the relative performance of products, providers, networks, partners, etc., and to isolate the cost of care opportunities and the potential for improvement. Specific responsibilities: conduct and coordinate cross-functional analysis of health care data to identify trends, explain plan results, and discover opportunities for plan improvement; communicate findings to senior management and the appropriate stake-holders particularly Medical Operations, Network Operations, Actuarial and Underwriting; design, develop, and implement statistically valid tests for internal and external assumptions for healthcare cost savings. Design methods that take into account the justifiable causes for variation in medical costs (age, sex, illness, severity, etc,) and develop reports that summarize this information in a way that management can use to make actionable decisions; contribute to planning by determining what information is necessary to make valid decisions, generating the necessary information, and analyzing the information and making recommendations; work with Medical Operations, Network Operations, Sales & Marketing, Operations, Actuarial and Underwriting to determine appropriate information for corrective action management reports; design and develop reports required to thoroughly understand the cost of care opportunities including the top trend drivers so action plans can be developed to address; prepare sophisticated financial analysis of proposed contracting initiatives, including user-friendly utilization and cost reports; work cross-functionally to develop, refine, and implement the data warehouse reporting strategy; support the initiatives of Medical Operations, Operations and Network Operations by providing applicable data and guidance on measurement; identify deficiencies in data quality and works cross-functionally to resolve. Previous work experience in health care data analysis required preferably within a managed care environment; must have experience, training, or coursework in analysis and assessment of medical claims and forecasting, knowledge of relational database principles including PCSAS and MS-Office products (particularly MS-Access) are required. Knowledge of Cogno, Powerplay, Upfront and Application development principles preferred, excellent quantitative and analytical skills, knowledge of medical terminology and coding methodologies required. HCPC, CPT, RBRVS, Diagnosis (ICD-9), DRG's required and 5 years of experience in the design, development, and management of informational analysis tools. Salary$open. (PR5826)

P&C Actuarial Analyst opening in Southeast. Manage and run complex reports from databases, and propose recommendations to Senior Management that impact upon the profitability of the company. Build and maintain actuarial databases, using computer skills which include proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Access. Specific responsibilities: analyze data using various actuarial models; provide recommendations to Senior Management that have impact upon the profitability of the organization; work with Product Management, Accounting, and/or other units of the company as part of a team; develop new databases and spreadsheets for Senior Management.  Ideal candidate will have a minimum of  2 years of P&C actuarial experience including knowledge of insurance products and of actuarial principles, with 3 to 6 CAS exams passed. Salary $open. (PR5822)

Financial Projection Modeling Actuary opening on West Coast. Develop, maintain, and peer review financial projection models that support various functions for annuities and mutual funds, including but not limited to risk management, valuation, pricing, and financial projection and planning. Ideal candidate has 3+ SOA examinations, actively pursuing ASA designation, direct experience with variable annuities, basic understanding in the areas of product designs, financial reporting, and/or risk management, effective experience developing and/or maintaining variable annuity models, preferably on the MoSes financial projection platform; must possess sufficient technical skills to carry through modeling/reporting projects as assigned with relatively limited supervision, as well as detail-oriented and have the ability to multi-task, with programming language experience including spreadsheet and database software. Salary $open. (PR5821)

P&C Actuarial Assistant opening in California involving pricing of Workers Compensation, General Liability, Property, Homeowners, Automobile, and Umbrella insurance. Ideal candidate will have 2-5 CAS exams, 2-3 years of pricing experience and be a self-motivated person who “thinks on his/her feet,” and is detail-oriented. Salary $open. (PR5820)

P&C Program Actuary opening in New Jersey. Assume actuarial support for several programs; perform functions related to pricing and monitoring performance of those programs. Specific responsibilities include: conduct regular profitability reviews; perform program-specific reinsurance placement analysis/assistance; analyze program expansion; develop and maintain pricing monitor; manage report development.  Ideal candidate is near ACAS through FCAS with at least 10 years of experience in the property-casualty insurance industry, ideally program business. Experience in professional liability or personal lines is a plus. Must be proficient in Excel and Access and have strong analytical, interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written). Salary $open. (PR5815)

Actuarial Manager opening in West Coast.  Lead a range of projects requiring actuarial modeling, including financial planning, cash flow testing, illustration actuary support, GAAP unlocking, TAS to MG-ALFA conversion. Opportunity to work on principles based reserves, economic capital, reinsurance of UL secondary guarantees. Experience with actuarial projection systems required, TAS or MG-ALFA preferred. Life insurance modeling experience required, preferably with a variety of general and separate account policy types. GAAP reporting experience is not required but a plus. Manage 3-4 actuarial students. Salary $open. (PR5816)

AVP, Product Actuary opening in West Coast. Highly visible role involving Annuity and Mutual Funds. Responsibilities: oversee and manage the product pricing, product design and ensuring the competitive positioning for the approval of new products with speed to market, marketability and profitability as key indicators of sales success, while balancing the inherent risks of product design through future modeling; represent product design and risk profiling in conjunction with profit/loss ratios to Finance & Risk Management Committee, Annuities & Mutual Funds Senior Management and Executive Management. Oversee the development and maintenance of the product pricing guidelines within the acceptable GAAP/STAT parameters, regulatory requirements and evaluate the product marketability based on reserve requirements, RBC valuations, DAC, FASB and reinsurance availability; lead staff responsible for developing an infrastructure to create strong working relationships with the Marketing Product Development Department, Actuarial Risk Management & Valuation Teams and the Finance Team to anticipate the evolving needs for actuarial product development services. Responsible for modeling and analyzing risk in cooperation with the Marketing Competition Team, Advisory Groups and Sales Management to develop a suite of products that support the hedging/reinsurance strategies and support the ultimate goal of profitable assets under management. FSA with 10-15 years actuarial experience in the insurance, financial services, annuities or securities industry, and minimum of 7 years pertinent actuarial experience, 7- 10 years experience in pricing annuity products and 3-5 years experience managing a product pricing, product design/development department in a variable annuity environment. Additionally the candidate must have at least 2 years of experience interacting with product marketing staff in conjunction with the product development process. Prior staff management experience, including experience directing the work of technical actuarial staff, is desirable. Salary $open. (PR5817)

Foreign Credit Actuary opening in Mid-Atlantic Region.  Help manage efforts to support actuarial functions of the Foreign Credit product line worldwide. Specific responsibilities include: management of review of key pricing and profitability assumptions – such as mortality, morbidity, and expenses – and coordinating the updating of relevant pricing models, with recommendations on the findings and suggestions; oversee required actuarial valuation and financial reporting needs for the foreign credit block; lead development of the New Product Business cases and pricing; assist in the review of applicable reinsurance treaties and financial projections; provide support in training of worldwide staff on Credit Life technical issues as needed. Ideal candidate is FSA or near FSA with a minimum of 5+ years experience in an insurance related role, preferably with focus on group, credit, or association/affinity type business; working knowledge of reinsurance arrangements, with experience negotiating terms and conditions, is a plus. Salary $open. (PR5796)

Associate Actuary opening in New York.  Responsible for product pricing efforts and financial analysis related to Life Insurance products; play an integral role in the product development effort;  be involved in all aspects of getting the product to market – from defining the product conceptually through pricing the product and ultimately the product’s introduction; work closely with numerous areas throughout the company, especially product managers, systems development/support teams, marketing personnel, field directors, and filing team; involved with inforce management and analysis; be exposed to a wide variety of life initiatives. Manage staff of 1-2 actuaries. Ideal candidate is FSA with minimum of 5 years of life product development experience, strong technical and analytical skills, managerial experience, and good modeling skills, ideally with PTS and/or Prophet. Salary $open. (PR5797)

P&C Reinsurance Pricing Actuary opening in New Jersey.  Demonstrate pricing accuracy and solid judgement in making pricing decisions; involved in delivering profitable team experience results; cultivate customer relationships and influence the top/bottom lines. Ideal candidate is ACAS/FCAS with minimum of 7 years actuarial experience in property & casualty reinsurance or large account pricing. Salary $open. (PR5792)

Financial Actuary opening in Southeast.  Responsible for monitoring the overall financial performance of Latin America and other financial issues as well as for driving process and infrastructure change for International Financial Systems overall. Ensure that the Latin America region maximizes earnings and value of inforce business; insure that new business is of high quality and is consistent with stated strategies. Ideal candidate is an FSA with commensurate experience in financial/business analysis; an experienced leader and financial executive who is energetic, forward thinking and creative with the highest ethical standards and an appropriate professional image, ability to read, analyze and interpret all reinsurance financial documents.  Bilingual (Spanish, Portuguese) a plus.  Salary $open. (PR5793)

International Modeling Actuary opening in Southeast.   Implement the international actuarial modeling function, and ensure that required valuations of international reinsurance business are performed in a timely, accurate and transparent manner.  These required valuations include Embedded Value, Value of New Business, Economic Capital and the annual budget process for entities that underwrite International Reinsurance business; effectively communicate all modeling, valuation results and financial impacts; represent International Reinsurance interests with respect to emerging actuarial modeling issues; ensure changes in actuarial modeling valuation requirements are communicated to key business unit and financial staff. Consult with business unit leaders and CFOs regarding the impacts of these valuation changes on reinsurance products and services and related strategies for responding to these changes; monitor and maintain a complete set of all actuarial assumptions and methodologies used in pricing and valuation processes; effectively document and communicate to management; maintain an effective control environment for actuarial modeling. Strong collaboration and engagement with the Regional CFO’s, pricing actuaries and experience analysis unit will be essential to assure appropriate controls are in place; achieve continual improvement of valuation processes by a combination of continuing education and professional growth. Ideal candidate is FSA, FCIA or equivalent with 5 or more years in an actuarial or financial role and minimum of 3 years of actuarial modeling experience. Salary $open. (PR5794)

Senior Financial Actuary opening in Southeast.  Responsible for actuarial activities associated with: Embedded Value Analysis, Cash Flow Testing, VOBA/DAC Recoverability Test, updating of existing valuation/projection models, building models for valuation/projection for incoming new business; assist in other actuarial activities associated with Statutory, Tax, GAAP and IFRS valuation; work closely with Accounting, Operations, Product Management and IT. Ideal candidate is ASA/FSA with 5+ years of actuarial experience including, Statutory, Tax and GAAP reporting, and a good knowledge of FAS60 and FAS97 accounting requirements.  Salary $open. (PR5795)

Pension Actuarial opening on Long Island. Ideal candidate will have 2+  actuarial exams with at least 1+ years of Defined Benefit or Defined Contribution experience. Salary up to $60’sk. (PR5786)

Non-exam tracked Actuarial opening in New York.  Responsibilities: Actuarial and Financial Assignments; Prophet Modeling Standards; Prophet Administration. Ideal candidate will have strong technical and analytical skills, 7+ years of life insurance experience; actuarial exams a plus. Salary $ 90k-$115k. (PR5787)

P&C Actuarial Assistant opening in New Jersey. Assist with performing various rate and/or reserve analyses and preparing management reports; perform other projects and assignments as directed. Specific responsibilities: assist in analyzing rate and/or reserve data; prepare rate filings; assist with the preparation of special reports and data compilations; assist in the maintenance of automated systems; assist in the analysis of Company and industry experience; assist in preparation of competitive analysis. At least 1 recent CAS exam; actuarial internship or actuarial experience required, as well as experience with Microsoft Excel and/or Access. Salary $open. (PR5782)

International/Domestic (50%/50%) Pension/Employee Benefit Actuary opening in New York/New Jersey.  Provide retirement and other employee benefit services to domestic and international clients. Ideal candidate is FSA, ASA, EA, or other similarly credentialed retirement actuary with both domestic and international experience. Health & Welfare and Compensation experience are pluses. (PR5775)

International New Business Actuary opening in East Coast. Responsible for supporting the development of new business initiatives for Life, Annuity, A&H, Credit, etc. line of business.  Research and develop new distribution channels, products and services.  Specific responsibilities include: Monitor trends and customer needs and analyze products, markets, and distribution methods to identify opportunities and develop solutions; develop product solutions which recognize country specific cultures, customer needs, distribution preferences, regulatory/tax environments, demographics, savings/risk preferences, etc. while producing desired effect on key metrics; identify success stories, share best practices and leverage products in other countries and with other distribution channels, package products to meet specific needs by market and determine “next generation” products by anticipating changes in needs. Travel may be required approximately 20% of the time. Ideal candidate is ASA, FSA, FIA or equivalent with a minimum of 7 years of insurance experience and a proven track record of success in developing products to meet customer need, experience working directly with marketing teams in the development of innovative product features; international experience with a background using actuarial software (ideally ALFA) a plus, ability to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical staff; adept at translating technical information into business language, ability to build relationships across cultures and geographies,  exposure to a broad range of product types:  Life, A&H, Accumulation, Pension, Credit and/or Employee Benefits. Salary $open. (PR5767)

Accident & Health Actuarial Analyst opening in New Jersey.  Provide actuarial support for employer stop loss, travel insurance, college accident and sickness, various student and blanket special risk products, provider excess loss, HMO reinsurance, dental, prescription drugs, organ transplant, limited medical including mini-med and short term medical. Specific responsibilities include: pricing, financial reporting, experience analysis, etc. Ideal candidate is pre-ASA with strong financial analysis background, analytical skills and proficiency in health products. Salary $open. (PR5770)

P&C Actuarial Student opening in Connecticut. Responsible for providing pricing support for Professional Liability products (Architects and Engineers, Lawyers, Real Estate Agents, and other miscellaneous Professional Liability coverages).  Specific responsibilities include: rate monitoring, metrics reporting, strategic analyses supporting planning process, underwriting support, including maintaining rate models used by underwriting, support for reinsurance, support for IT initiatives, rate filings, and ad hoc pricing analyses.  The ideal candidate will have 1-3 years of P&C experience and be able to communicate actuarial concepts and analyses effectively with other actuaries, underwriters, claims managers and IT professionals.  Strong communication skills are very important in this role.  Salary $open. (PR5769)

Principal Consulting Actuary opening in California. Manage large sophisticated DB accounts as well as staff. Ideal candidate is  FSA (will consider career ASA/EA as well) with 20-25 years as a Consulting Actuary,  ideally one who understands the California, Nevada and Utah market. Salary $open. (PR5765)

P&C Actuarial Manager opening in Midwest. Serve as IABA liaison.  Responsible for aligning with and contributing to corporate growth and profitability objectives by identifying pricing opportunities which will generate profitable market share growth in assigned states; establish and deliver an integrated pricing strategy for each assigned state; lead a team of 5-20 actuarial students in the development of the pricing strategy; establish a successful partnership with the State Manager in order to improve the effectiveness of business decisions; partner with other functional departments to create and implement leading products with improved speed to market and better overall customer and agent satisfaction; review external trends affecting the entire industry within the state(s) and appropriately reflecting them in pricing; prioritize potential changes to generate profitable market share growth over the long term; establish timely integration and delivery of planned changes to the marketplace; develop and implement an effective communication process; partner with Legal to establish a good working relationship with each Department of Insurance; pursue a current understanding of strategic initiatives across the company; coordinate decisions and communicate with other actuaries and State Managers to shorten the learning curve and enable quicker impact; foster and implement non-traditional decision making; educate and develop employees both within and outside of Pricing on the economics of insurance and the fundamentals associated with making sound business decisions; maximize professional development, personal contribution, and performance of employees. FCAS or near FCAS with 8-10 years (will consider less experience if candidate has the potential to progress to leadership role) of relevant experience in progressively more responsible roles, with at least three to five years of general management/leadership experience, knowledge and expertise including: extensive pricing and insurance regulation knowledge, with working knowledge of personal lines underwriting and product offerings; comprehensive understanding of the Actuarial Standards of Practice and Statement of Principles; advanced knowledge about business in general and seasoned, in-depth, multi-dimensional knowledge of industry and company economics; ability to develop and/or revise business tactics to support changing business strategies and direction; ability to analyze and interpret complex concepts;  ability to measure, evaluate, and act on results (financial and operational); ability to develop and implement pricing programs for assigned states; ability to provide written and oral interpretation of highly specialized terms and data, and can present this data to others with different levels of expertise; ability to manage/lead a group of employees; ability to concentrate on a wide range of loosely defined complex situations, which require application of creativity and originality, where guidance and counsel may be unavailable. Salary $open. (PR5764)

P&C Actuarial opening in Ohio. Contribute towards expanding actuarial services in areas including predictive modeling, pricing, and competitive analysis; work with personal and commercial lines of business; assist with supporting documentation for regulatory filings of rates; and advise internal customers (i.e., underwriting, sales, claims, and accounting) as needed. FCAS/near FCAS designation with 5+ years of related experience, especially predictive modeling experience is ideal. Salary $open. (PR5749)

Predictive Modeler opening in Ohio.  Develop and maintain predictive models for commercial and personal insurance; develop reserve, DFA and ERM models. 2+ years of P&C actuarial experience is required and 4+ CAS exams are preferred.  Strong skills in multivariate predictive models are required and experience in commercial lines is preferred. Experience in the use of SAS for data handling and model development and with other statistical tools and with large data sets is beneficial, though not required.  Salary $open. (PR5750)

Exciting FSA opening in Midwest focusing on Variable Annuity and Indexed Annuity Hedging. Ideal candidate will be FSA with 5-10+ years of annuity hedging experience. Salary $open. (PR5727*)

Actuarial Associate opening in New England.  Provide actuarial support in valuation, financial reporting and other actuarial activities. Specific responsibilities include: assist in integration of new blocks of life and/or annuity businesses into existing infrastructure; recommend and make process improvements; complete periodic reporting requirements; maintain actuarial systems; interact with other departments or organizations on actuarial matters.  ASA with at least 5+ years of relevant experience. Salary $open. (PR5721*)

Health company seeks their first Actuary! Chief Actuary opening for Disease and Utilization Management company in Florida.  Responsible for the manipulation, analysis, and communication of data for leadership team, clients, and vendors.   Specific duties include: analyze claims information and apply underwriting principles to the data for modeling of various pricing scenarios and ROI; perform mathematical and statistical analyses and actuarial modeling in support of clients' needs; identify and/or develop related software, tools, and data analyses necessary for the completion of projects; identify and analyze internal and external factors which affect statistics for use in forecasting, trending, and rate models; design specific actuarial studies and research projects as requested; and assume a lead role in contract analysis, projections, and strategic planning support. FSA or ASA with a Bachelor's degree in Business, Mathematics, or a related field (Masters preferred); 6+ years of experience in the healthcare / managed care industry; strong analytical skills with the ability to design strategic plans, implement operating goals and objectives, and accomplish desired results; highly computer literate and detail oriented; professionally skilled in personal presentation, verbal, and written communication; and  meticulous organizational skills. Salary $open. (PR5708*)

Health Actuary opening in Pennsylvania. Manage the Actuarial Student Program Department, be responsible for the financial soundness from the actuarial and underwriting policy perspective; actuarial expert and external participant throughout the industry and be expected to provide clear and concise explanations of complex technical matters to executive, government officials, shareholders, board members, policy holders and the public; participate in strategy discussions regarding development of new products, services and companies; coordinate corporate objectives with projected financial outcomes of new products; provide actuarial support for any new venture development; initiate discussions of new product development and present ideas to upper management; make final decision on any rate impact associated with new products; review and comment on underwriting guidelines for new products. ASA or FSA  with at least  7 years of  healthcare leadership and management experience. Salary $open. (PR5704*).

Personal  Lines Analyst opening in California. 1-4 years of P&C experience with at least 2-5 exams. Salary $open. (PR5703*)

Commercial Lines Analyst opening in California. 1-4 years of P&C experience with at least 2-5 exams. Salary $open. (PR5702*)

Associate Actuary opening in New York.  Responsible for all product pricing and financial analysis related to Annuity Investment Products (Variable Annuities, Fixed Deferred Annuities and Structured Settlements). Agent compensation and financial management experience would be a plus, as would some knowledge of equity, interest rate and credit risk quantification, stochastic processes and multiple financial pricing measures; strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to handle multiple tasks and shifting priorities; strong technical and analytical skills; experience with Access, Bloomberg, PTS, Prophet, Visual Basic, and @Risk; ability to handle multiple tasks and shifting priorities; must be able to plan, control, memorialize decisions and see projects through to completion; able to balance regular monthly and weekly rate setting and reporting responsibilities, ad-hoc special sales and pricing requests and longer term product development and pricing work; strong ability to communicate well with and work as a team with product managers, sales and retirement income specialists, internal financial officers, investment managers, programmers and outside vendors and consultants. FSA or near FSA. Salary $open. (PR5701*)

Senior Consultant, Research & Modeling opening in New England. Provide technical and quantitative analysis for predictive modeling group; bring business and insurance knowledge to mathematical problems; assist in statistical data mining and other actuarial research by applying advanced statistical concepts with guidance from senior predictive modeling staff; use computer technology, computer modeling, spreadsheet applications, software tools and programming languages; model and analyze statistical data and develops reports, spreadsheets and databases; designs, writes and tests computer programs in model building. Specific duties: conduct research and predictive modeling; interpret data and identify correlations using both univariate and multivariate analysis; prepare responses to inquiries from business areas; investigate and assist in data analysis; assist in summarizing results; perform programming in SAS, Excel, Access or company software to perform modeling activities; offer recommendations to improve analyses; participate in discussions regarding underwriting strategy. Ideal candidate will have 3-5 years insurance experience or advanced statistical (or related) degree with 1 to 3 years of work experience, solid understanding of database principles, strong experience in quantitative analysis, strong time management skills (works well with somewhat limited guidance), basic understanding of predictive modeling statistical methods. College degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, finance, actuarial science or equivalent. Solid understanding of computers, Excel spreadsheets, Word and database software, basic understanding of programming (any language) as well as aptitude and desire to learn SAS. Salary $open. (PR5699*)

Director – Research & Modeling opening in New England.  Provide technical and quantitative analysis for predictive modeling group; bring business knowledge to help creatively solve business problems; assist in in-depth efforts applying and implementing predictive modeling results; direct analysts in research and predictive modeling projects; assist in statistical data mining and other actuarial research by applying advanced statistical concepts; use computer technology, computer modeling, spreadsheet applications, software tools and programming languages; assist in designing reports to enhance analysis; design, write and test computer programs in model-building; participate in and may be responsible for projects requiring advanced statistical analyses, innovative research, mathematical calculations and technical skills; may direct projects that have significant financial impact and may present to senior level management. Specific duties: conduct research and predictive modeling; interpret data and identify correlations using both univariate and multivariate analysis; participate in discussions regarding underwriting strategy; communicate results and their implications to business centers; prepare responses to inquiries from business areas; oversee programming in; SAS, VBA, Excel, Access or company software; participate in and/or is responsible for advanced projects; present findings to underwriting and actuarial management; provide assistance and supervision to less experienced staff.  Ideal candidate will have 5-7 years of research, modeling or actuarial experience; statistical modeling and data mining techniques (GLM, clustering, decision trees, etc), strong understanding of insurance related modeling and data.  Knowledge of insurance products and operations, basic understanding of accounting principles and solid understanding of financial reporting, basic understanding of regulatory environment.  College degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, finance, actuarial science or equivalent; advanced degree in statistics (or related) or professional actuarial designation a plus. Salary $open. (PR5698*)

Commercial Accounts Regional Actuary opening in New England.  Provide strategic actuarial decision-making analysis and guidance to designated Commercial Accounts regions and underwriting offices pertaining to pricing, profitability and business plan goals at an account, book portfolio and line of business level.  Be the actuarial advocate/stakeholder for line of business strategies driving profitability for Commercial Accounts.  Specific responsibilities: profitability of one or more regions for Commercial Accounts; work with regional management to ensure adequate portfolio pricing that produce results consistent with the regions growth and profitability objectives; perform segmentation analysis to determine best/worst performing areas of the assigned region(s), and recommend strategies for growing/correcting those areas as appropriate; provide actuarial input and guidance to the planning process for the assigned region(s); conduct actuarial analysis to examine the effectiveness of existing underwriting and pricing strategies in the assigned region(s) and communicate results of the analysis to regional management and Middle Market Product and Loss Analytics actuarial teams; identify and address training needs of field employees in actuarial concepts, underwriting tools, and pricing models; work with Account Executives to appropriately price individual large accounts where necessary (using either guaranteed cost or loss sensitive products) to achieve the regions profitability and growth goals. Member of the Casualty Actuarial Society, with a minimum 6 years of Property/Casualty insurance experience. Salary $open. (PR5694*)

Bond and Financial Products Pricing Actuary opening in Midwest.  Provide analytic and actuarial analysis for financial products (including D&O, E&O, EPL, Fiduciary Liability, etc.) and traditional Property and Casualty (Property, GL, Auto) products to insureds in the financial services industry including banks, insurance companies, and investment professionals; interact with underwriting, product, and claim areas including senior management.  Specific duties: complete profitability assessments and work with product managers to develop an appropriate strategy based on that analysis; develop and revise rating plans; develop and maintain product pricing models; provide portfolio review support; manage at least one actuarial student. Must be able to balance a large number of projects from various sources and help determine priorities; provide actuarial support for management liability products requiring a variety of techniques to deal with a high severity line with many unique characteristics.  Ideal candidate is FCAS with related pricing experience.  Salary $open. (PR5692*)

Mid-Market Actuarial Loss Analytics Property Actuary opening in various locations. Responsible for developing unbiased estimates of loss content, and delivering leading indicators and business intelligence to Middle Market and Actuarial Senior Leadership; conduct loss reserve estimates; estimate ultimate loss content for all Middle Market businesses and lines of business; complete the loss reserving process semi-annually for all lines and business, utilizing knowledge from the loss analytics process; understand drivers of loss content changes historically and provide estimates of future changes; provide range of analytics and insights for the selection of plan loss roll-forward estimates, including: basic, excess, cat, latent losses and loss trend; provide loss content estimates, ultimately at the account/line/coverage level, to be utilized in profitability analyses done by the Products, Business unit and predictive modeling groups; recognize and evaluate the impact of claims, underwriting and other internal process changes on loss estimates; understand and leverage data and analytics from across Middle Markets and the Enterprise; identify and utilize external econometric and legal indices in the loss estimation process. Specific responsibilities: estimate the ultimate loss content for the Property line of business and understand the drivers behind changes of those estimates over time;  understand and communicate the variability of loss content estimates for Property;  recommend and book reserves; communicate with Finance and appropriate units as required; evaluate the adequacy of loss, ALAE, and ULAE reserves; identify loss trends, both historical and prospective; work with Claims, Underwriting, and Pricing Actuaries to understand reasons for changes in loss content estimates and trends; work on issues related to catastrophe modeling, monitoring, estimation, and booking; work with reserving actuaries to evaluate and enhance tools, ensure proper data access, and support various processes performed by reserving actuaries; provide support for the creation of and on-going maintenance and enhancements of a granular ultimate loss content and trend information repository, with focus on the Property line of business; supervise and be responsible for the development of less experienced staff. Ideal candidate is ACAS or FCAS with 7+ years of product, analytic, or reserving experience in Commercial Lines. Salary $open. (PR5691*) 

Director, Rate Plan Administration opening in Midwest. Assume responsibility for the management of rate plans for all Management Liability products; play an active role in managing the administration of rating plans,  from initial preparation of rate plans and state filing exhibits to answering questions from state insurance departments; in addition, manage the testing of all implementations of rating plans, as well as the building of all the Excel based rating plans and manages a team of 2 analysts.  Specific responsibilities: lead a team that is responsible for rate filings, Excel-based rating tool development, and testing of all rating applications; manage the rate filing process; work with actuarial to prepare rate plans for filing; coordinate with the pricing actuarial team on filings to ensure efficient implementation of rate changes; design, build, and maintain all our Excel-based rating tools; manage the testing done by actuarial regarding all new implementations of rating plans; work with regulatory to develop improved processes and workflows in the filing process.   BS in Actuarial Science, Math or Business preferred, actuarial and financial analysis, project or personnel management experience. Salary $open. (PR5690*)

Economist opening in New England.   Responsible for pioneering the integration of advanced econometric modeling in the development of ultimate loss reserve estimates for all lines of middle market business; work closely with the Business, Product and Data units; develop unbiased estimates of the ultimate loss associated with products sold; deliver leading indicators and business intelligence to Middle Market and Actuarial Senior Leadership; analyze external econometric legal indices and internal claim process changes; lead the Loss Analytics economic modeling efforts. Specific Responsibilities: Lead the development of econometric analyses in Middle Market; identify key econometric drivers of covered insurance losses for all lines of business; collaborate with Loss Analytic actuaries to measure the impact of economic drivers and implement processes to measure, monitor and reflect the impact of a changing economic environment; communicate findings to Middle Market Senior Management; research and identify key econometric measures that demonstrate a correlation with business insurance losses; work with actuarial colleagues to quantify the impact of changes in key economic drivers; identify and utilize external econometric and legal indices in the loss estimation process; recognize how external influences may affect the claim, underwriting and other internal functions; understand and leverage data and analytics from across Middle Markets and the Enterprise; research and identify unique economic trends of specific industry segments and work with actuaries and business professionals to evaluate their impact on results; develop an understanding of the loss estimation process and various functions within the insurance organization; communicate and educate actuarial and business leaders on the dynamics of the economic environment and its impact on ultimate loss; apply advanced statistical concepts and data analysis methods in innovative research and modeling; independently work on projects but may direct additional analysts as required; assist in developing new approaches to business problems using advanced statistical techniques and indentifying new ways to apply statistical methodologies; examination of the impact of unemployment on covered losses (e.g., Workers Compensation claims); identifying correlations of inflationary metrics and insurance loss severity. Advanced degree (MA/PhD) in economics or related discipline, 5+  years of applied econometric analysis experience in an insurance company or similar business environment and strong understanding of mathematics and statistical concepts. Salary $open. (PR5689*)

International Senior Actuarial Assistant opening partially in United States and partially Abroad. Provide actuarial support to International actuarial departments.  Learn International business and understand shared actuarial tools used by International actuarial departments; spend approximately 6 months abroad supporting International actuarial department(s); support international actuarial analyses, including reserving, planning, management reporting. Ideal candidate will have 3-6 Actuarial exams, commercial lines reserving experience,  and experience with Excel, Essbase, data cubes and SQL. Salary $open. (PR5688*)

Health Actuarial Analyst opening in New Jersey/Pennsylvania.   Help gather and validate the data required for valuation and participate in setting key actuarial assumptions.  Over time the role will expand to include broader financial modeling and forecasting. Responsibilities: work with subsidiary finance teams to gather all data required for valuation; help ensure that proper controls are in place to prevent data transmission error; leverage existing valuation models to create IBNR reserve estimates; help develop new and improved valuation tools; calculate RAF accruals associated with Medicare Advantage products; calculate interim and year-end liabilities associated with Medicare Part D products; calculate ongoing provider bonus payments and accruals; help analyze and explain differences between financial reporting, actuarial reserves, and financial forecasts; participate in Actuarial Student Program. Ideal candidate will have passed at least 3 SOA exams and have at least 3+ years of health plan experience; specific experience with valuation and financial reporting, relevant Medicare experience preferred; knowledge of SQL preferred.  Salary $open. (PR5668*)

Economic Capital Manager opening in ISRAEL. Must have experience in Economic Capital of either Life insurance and/or P&C insurance. Will consider Actuary (credentialed or non-credentialed), Economist, or Financier with applicable experience. Knowledge of Hebrew is plus. Salary $open. (PR5667*)

Pension Administration Project Manager opening in Illinois.  Work as member of team responsible for providing defined benefit administrative services to multiple clients using proprietary software. The Project Manager is responsible for overall management of administration clients, managing more complex to significantly complex implementations, managing  relationships with client contacts, people management, and acting as a resource for more experienced associates on technical issues, administrative questions and people management issues. Specific responsibilities:  Oversee delivery of day-to-day administration services to multiple clients; ensure the quality, efficiency, and compliance of benefit calculations completed by the team; manage special projects associated with defined benefit plans for various clients (e.g. benefit statements, compliance issues, and plan changes); respond to employer and escalated employee inquiries and facilitate requests; maintain client databases; manage client billing process; oversee monthly pension payments with trustee; responsible for quality control of the client's pension calculation system; provide expert knowledge of plan provisions and general DB issues; train team on DB administration rules; act as a resource regarding technical administration rules, delivery model questions, and people management questions; accountable for overseeing the setup and testing of the system for new clients according to the plan provisions and administrative requirements; ensure that client delivery model is consistent with the base model for clients; develop plan provisions and administration documents; customize employee communication material; consult with client on pension plan provisions and options; consult with client on special projects such as nonstandard benefit calculations, benefit statements, changes to requirements, special programs or other administrative requests; monitor and manage the client relationship; work with client or Consultant to resolve billing/contract questions; consult with client on billings for out-of-scope work; consult with client on defined benefit rules or clarifications to the plan provisions; structure and lead client meetings regarding ongoing administration or implementation; develop creative solutions to unique problems raised during client meetings; engage associates and developing associates to meet emerging business needs; coach associates to work more effectively with their team members; train new and existing team members; identify and implement efficiencies for client teams and challenge their team to constantly improve efficiency; ensure that the work is evenly distributed among other team members and completed on time. Minimum of  9+ years of experience working with Defined Benefit plans/administration. Salary $open. (PR5656*)

Measurement Analyst opening in Illinois.  Responsibilities: Analyze basic benefit information to input and maintain Benefit Index Database; maintain company demographic and contact information; use public sources to verify company demographic and contact information; enter and maintain status codes and permissions; enter and maintain benefit values; ensure data accuracy and integrity through extensive proofing and cross-checking of information, and proper understanding and use of status codes and permission codes; generate benefit specification reports from the database in response to requests from actuaries, consultants, and clients; work with actuaries and Measurement analysts to generate Benefit Index reports, including specs, notes, numbers, displays, comments, and status reports; logically restructure computerized formulas to achieve customized results for Benefit Index reports; run and manipulate a variety of reports, data queries, and Excel spreadsheets to track information within the database; respond to simple requests in a timely and accurate manner; assist with mass mailings (e.g., data update requests, marketing mailings, sales, etc.); answer basic administration or procedural questions; perform basic system/project trouble-shooting; coordinate small projects; help to coordinate pieces of large projects with the Project Manager's guidance; responsible for a small number of benefit specification updates, with guidance; potential introduction (with direction) to benefit valuations; potential introduction (with direction) to summarizing booklets and calling clients with basic benefit questions.  Bachelors degree (mathematics/finance major or minor degree is a plus), with basic knowledge of employee benefits, and basic knowledge of desktop applications (e.g., Excel, Word, Adobe Acrobat). Salary $open. (PR5655*)

Health Management actuarial student opening in Illinois.  Assist in strategy development and costing of scenarios related to strategy discussions; work with client to identify relevant cost measures; assist in benchmarking discussions with clients, including strategy evolution as a result of benchmarking data; understand and project savings/costs related to plan design or provider network changes; set, and where appropriate review, health care budget rate for self-insured plans; present results to client; review employee contribution rate development; support FAS 106/112 claim cost development assignments; perform IBNR reserve development; develop models to evaluate cost-saving scenarios; mentor and delegate work to other actuarial students as appropriate; seek and provide peer review to ensure high quality client deliverables; develop general consulting skills, knowledge, and exposure Value retiree plans for the purpose of complying with Medicare Part D regulations, including calculating Medicare Part D Subsidy and Actuarial Attestation. Near ASA to FSA with 4-8 years of actuarial work experience.  Salary $open. (PR5654*) 

Pensions Actuarial Consultant opening in Multiple Locations throughout US (Northeast, Midwest, South, etc.).  Use analytical and communication skills to help clients with the design, financing, and administration of retirement (and other) benefit plans; calculate and review contributions necessary to fund defined benefit pension plans; calculate and review annual accounting expenses necessary for post retirement and termination benefits; lead most routine (i.e. valuation results) meetings (including preparation of materials); moderately leverage through coaching and training less experienced consultants and delegate work to them; look for opportunities to build business with current clients; work collaboratively with consultants from other lines of business; manage all aspects of actuarial valuations; assist with plan design strategy and implementation, mergers/spinoffs/acquisition strategies, negotiations, accounting, window design/strategy etc;  gain deep understanding of regulatory and legislative rules; certify individual benefit calculations, liaise with administrators when appropriate; understand plan documentation and relevant legal and regulatory requirements. Multiple openings for near ASA/EA through FSA with 2+ years of pension consulting experience. Salary $open. (PR5645*)

Health Management Actuarial opening in Texas.  Create analysis tools to be leveraged by all Health Management (HM) actuaries; function as lead HM consultant and/or lead actuary for several large annuity HM clients; spearhead technical contributions to client/promotional activity, help respond to bid situations; lead responsibility for all financial calculations for key HM clients; leverage work to multiple HM group actuarial resources; interact with other lines of business on key issues affecting many clients (e.g., FAS 106 claim costing assumptions with RFM LOB, HRO team); manage or mentor several HM associates; formulate standards of practice for financial analysis with health care vendors and HMOs; support Client Development for medium and large clients; contribute to intellectual capital of the firm by developing and sharing tools, new approaches, and best practices; seek and provide peer review to ensure high quality client deliverables. Involved with: RFPs (medical, dental, life, etc), FAS 106 development, IBNR, HRO rate delivery, Medicare Part D attestations,  and M&A projects. Contribute knowledge to internal initiatives (e.g., training, model development, etc.), develop client, people, business, and/or thought leadership skills and exposure, sign Actuarial Opinions and lead analysis behind them, if qualified. FSA (or career ASA)  with 10-15 years of healthcare consulting experience. Salary $open. (PR5641*)

Professional Liability Actuary opening in New Jersey.  Coordinate global product reviews for Professional Liability by coverage (D&O, E&O,  EPL, Fiduciary and Fidelity); assist with the coordination and analysis of Professional Liability's annual reinsurance programs; review MGA price monitoring; develop and maintain rating plans and rating modules; review and update pricing tools; analyze trends by industry and market capitalization; provide quarterly renewal price monitoring process; continue to expand the depth and scope of quarterly price benchmarking and price monitoring efforts and mechanize the process where possible; provide quarterly price benchmarking (new and renewal); support auditors’ quarterly analysis of reserves and capital career allocation data requests; analyze new business opportunities for global professional lines; coordinate all quarterly statistical reporting related activities for liability lines as well as external Professional Liability requests (e.g., AM Best). Ideal candidate is ACAS or FCAS with at least 10+ years of prior experience (most of which must be recent Professional Liability) in an insurance/reinsurance company, able to manage interpersonal relations and communicate effectively. Salary $open. (PR5634*)

Individual Life Pricing Actuary opening in New York. Responsible for assisting various life product development teams with pricing efforts and special projects; exposed to wide variety of life initiatives and working with Senior Management and will play an integral role in the product development effort; keeping abreast of all regulatory changes that will impact core products (i.e.PBR); work closely with numerous areas throughout the company, including but not limited to inforce management.  FSA with life product development experience would be a plus and strong technical and analytical skills.  Salary $open. (PR5630*)

Pricing Actuary opening in Southeast.  Responsible for taking a lead role in pricing efforts for Latin America business, assuring that pricing processes are properly defined, implemented, and executed; requires a close working relationship with all Latin America employees, as well as other pricing, valuation, contracts, and operations areas; oversight of product development efforts and the development of pricing bases to support key strategic initiatives will also be responsibilities for this position. Specific responsibilities: client experience and mortality assessment; pricing risk assessment and assumption setting; optimization of product and deal structures; identification and quantification of risks in the proposed transaction and identification mitigating structures or strategies; maintaining strong partnership with deal team, marketing actuary, account executive, and client; creation of pricing reports adhering to International standards of best practice in a timely manner; ownership of analytical studies used to develop pricing bases for key risks and incorporation of new internal and external experience information to keep them properly updated; ownership of at least one area of retail product pricing expertise to assist with knowledge management and client support; participate in or lead project assignments such as assumption revisions, new legal entity and deal structures, and product development; assist other departments on various corporate projection work (e.g., budget projections, VNB, etc.); communicate effectively with pricing, marketing, product and senior management staff on deal status, expectations, strategy, and pricing assumptions; prepare and maintain workflow and pricing assumption documentation to satisfy all customers of the pricing process (Sales, Actuarial, Financial, Operations). FSA with at least 5 years of life actuarial experience, including two years or more in a pricing and product development role; reinsurance industry experience preferred and a solid analytical skills with strong problem solving ability. Working knowledge of Spanish a plus. Salary $open. (PR5631*)

Latin America Marketing Actuary opening in the Southeast.  Collaborate effectively with the Country managers to ensure that the need of clients for compelling reinsurance solutions is reliably connected with risk and pricing standards, both within the deal process, and in prior planning activity to position the business for success in its chosen markets; timely assessment of potential transactions for their "strategic fit", the active influencing of the negotiation process to ensure that a win-win solution is achievable, and the successful implementation of any won transaction through the new business acquisition process; collaborate with the pricing team to ensure that deal pricing and risk assessment is completed to develop best estimate pricing within client timeline commitments; ensure that local market and client intelligence is effectively integrated into the pricing process; deliberately seeks to continuously improve his/her own and the transaction team's understanding of local market conditions, including technical reserving and risk capital requirements, taxation, reinsurance regulation, product and distribution channel innovations; gain deal approval from internal risk committees; support country managers and the leader for Latin America business development in presenting, selling, and negotiating transactions; support the effectiveness of the New Business Acquisition process across the International business' functional areas. FSA or equivalent technical skills base, manage work commitments across projects and in managing across the team to develop priorities that make sense for the business, 30% travel component. Spanish/Portuguese language skills in hand, otherwise willingness to acquire is needed. Salary $open. (PR5632*)

Group Life Reinsurance Marketing Actuary opening in Connecticut/New York. Responsibilities include: understand the re/insurance market and clients needs therein with both face-to-face interaction and data analysis; prepare reinsurance proposals, work closely with underwriting and costing actuaries; minimize distribution risk for appropriate opportunity targeting and pricing of those opportunities; work closely with Client Managers to negotiate price and terms and understand competitor actions and behavior; manage the quote process with a focus on meeting client expected delivery timelines; manage treaty preparation and turnaround times within client and requirements; leverage client knowledge to identify, investigate, and resolve issues with business that is believed to be performing other than originally expected; build and maintain strong relationships with other departments within the company to facilitate the resolution of potential business issues; when available, assist with projects to improve the pricing process and understanding of the business. Specific responsibilities include: work closely with account executives and build relationships with potential clients and functional experts to ensure effective delivery of products and services; participate in account meeting with Client Managers; work with underwriting and costing actuaries to accurately cost risk of clients’ new business; propose pricing schemes that minimize distribution risk; negotiate price and treaty terms; manage of both quote and treaty turnaround times; understand market and client needs, including monitoring competitor behavior. Candidate must be FSA with a minimum of 5-7 years experience in actuarial position with emphasis on market pricing, knowledge of actuarial concepts and principles, and ideally by having 5+ years of reinsurance pricing and/or marketing experience. Salary $open, (PR5627*)

Associate Actuary opening in Northeast.  Provide pricing and product development support for group life insurance products; work closely with other members of the actuarial staff, with financial underwriters, with product management, and with account management. Specific responsibilities: experience studies; involvement with asset adequacy testing for group products; gain/loss studies for various group life products; account case-specific projects, including pricing and product development; analysis of group insurance investment results, and working with the investment portfolio manager on opportunities to improve results. ASA with minimum of 3 years actuarial experience, strong quantitative background and experience with group insurance products a plus. Salary $open. (PR5624*)

Associate Actuary opening in Greater New York.  Be part of the Individual Annuity Hedging team in the Actuarial unit of Annuities, which is responsible for the analysis and updating of key liability measures for variable annuity capital market guarantees to facilitate the hedging of these risks; provide the analysis to support the modeling of the hedging strategy for the valuation group for cash flow testing, RBC C3 Phase2, and planning; provide monthly GAAP FAS157 embedded derivative liability values; provide analysis and option costs for new variable annuity capital market guarantees under consideration. Serve in IA Hedge team’s quantitative sub-group, which is responsible for directing and testing updates to the valuation system for enhancements and the addition of new products; aid in the development of models to evaluate and price new VA guarantees, to build and test scenario generators, and to assist any other quantitative and model work regarding the hedge group’s activities.  Actuarial exams through course C desired, model building using Access and Excel (VBA), strong quantitative and analytical skill, prior experience with TAS, MoSes, MG-ALFA or similar actuarial modeling software is would be helpful and  annuity and/or hedging experience is a plus. Must be willing to quickly develop in-depth knowledge of annuity product designs and optional benefit features as well as capital market instruments (options, swaps, futures, etc.) and hedging concepts. Salary $open. (PR5623*)

Sr. Actuarial Associate opening in Connecticut.  Prepare annual actuarial valuations, government filings and FAS 87 disclosures for Defined Benefit clients' plans for both outsourced and non-outsourced plans; provide information requested by accountants in connection with plan audits; prepare necessary information requested by the IRS such as cost limitations under various scenarios of the Internal Revenue Code. Strong PC skills, communication skills, and some DB analytics background required. Salary $open. (PR5622*)

Sr. Actuarial Associate opening in Northeast.  Involved in evaluating contingent risks, such as mortality/longevity risks, morbidity risks, accident risks, asset-liability matching risks, and expense risks. Specific responsibilities: perform pricing and product development; valuation and financial reporting or research and support; coordinate, prepare, and perform actuarial analysis to assist various business units in the Retirement segment on reserve and financial forecasts used in actuarial recommendations and reporting; work with the business units to prepare actuarial response and communication of results of actuarial research to Finance Unit; provide consultation and clarification on actuarial models and risk issues; maintain documentation of actuarial analysis, and may assist in preparing the actuarial portion of financial reports and tax returns, and responses to insurance regulators;  familiar with the development of reserve programs and financial forecasts.  Life Contingency part of SOA actuarial exam is a plus and thorough knowledge of actuarial statistics and assumptions used for modeling cost, risk and revenue trends.  Experience in reserve valuation and knowledge of group annuity products would be helpful. Salary $open . (PR5621*)

Actuarial Associate opening in Greater New York. Be part of the Individual Annuity Hedging team, which is responsible for the analysis and updating of key liability measures for variable annuity capital market guarantees to facilitate the hedging of these risks.   In addition, responsible for providing the analysis to support the modeling of the hedging strategy for the valuation group for cash flow testing, RBC C3 Phase2, Economic Capital (EC) and planning.  Also, team is responsible for providing the monthly GAAP FAS157 embedded derivative liability values; play an important role in the product development process for variable annuities by providing analysis and option costs for new variable annuity capital market guarantees being considered. Specific responsibilities: serve in IA Hedge team’s valuation sub-group, which is responsible for supporting monthly, weekly, and daily liability valuation and providing supports for enterprise wide EC project; also be required to aid in the development of a robust attribution analysis for liability value movements and streamline the EC valuation process.  This is an exciting opportunity for this position to have an influence on the development of the hedging program. Passed at least 2-3 actuarial exams, strong skills in model building using Access and Excel (VBA), quantitative and analytical skills, previous experience with TAS, MG-Hedge or similar actuarial modeling software would be helpful and experience in varible annuity and/or hedging is desired. Salary $open. (PR5620*)

Associate Actuary opening in Greater New York.  Be part of the Individual Annuity Hedging team, which is responsible for the analysis and updating of key liability measures for variable annuity capital market guarantees to facilitate the hedging of these risks.   In addition, responsible for providing the analysis to support the modeling of the hedging strategy for the valuation group for cash flow testing, RBC C3 Phase2, Economic Capital (EC) and planning, providing the monthly GAAP FAS157 embedded derivative liability values.  The unit plays an important role in the product development process for variable annuities by providing analysis and option costs for new variable annuity capital market guarantees being considered. Specific responsibilities: participate in developing and maintaining in-house hedging strategy testing platform, which involves stochastic projections, risk-neutral liability valuations, derivative pricing and valuation, and trading simulation; aid in the development of models to evaluate and price new VA capital market guarantees and funds, to build and test scenario generators, and to assist any other quantitative and model work regarding the hedge group’s activities. ASA or near ASA preferred, 2 years of experience in a large scale, data-driven software development role using Microsoft Visual C++. Strong skills in C++ programming are a must. Knowledge of MFC, ATL/COM is highly desired, experience in financial or scientific programming and knowledge of distributed computing are strongly preferred. Knowledge of application design principles is preferred.  Salary $open. (PR5619*)

Unique Life Actuarial Consulting opportunity in Toronto.  Deal directly with clients on a daily basis to provide actuarial support and training. Provide documentation for clients; test new system versions; research projects that provide exposure to state of the art actuarial science and its application to real problems. Strong interpersonal, communication, presentation and analytical skills and will have at least 5 years of experience in the life insurance industry in Canada or the US, experience in life or annuities in the areas of  pricing, corporate, ALM or stochastic modeling work. Willing to travel. Preference will be given to those with ALM and/or U.S. experience. Salary $open (PR/CL5626*)

One-Of-A-Kind Life Actuarial Consultant opportunity – WORK OUT OF YOUR HOUSE!!! Deal directly with clients on a daily basis to provide actuarial support, training and advice on best practices for implementing models. Work on documentation for clients and research projects that provide exposure to state of the art actuarial science and its application to real problems. Ideal candidate will  possess strong interpersonal, communication, presentation and analytical skills and will have at least 5 years of experience in the life insurance industry in the US. You should have experience in life and annuities in the areas of pricing, corporate, ALM or stochastic modeling work. Salary $open. (PR5625*)

Actuarial Programmer opening in Washington, DC.   Maintain and enhance government-owned actuarial valuation/projection software; design, code and test changes to a complex system under the limited supervision of a technical manager and several project actuaries. Applicant must be able to explain complex system solutions to non-systems professional staff (Actuaries and Economists).  Must have minimum 7+ years of software development and design experience, expert-level experience with MS C++ (v6.0 or .NET, Console mode only - MFC not necessary), expert-level experience with MS Visual Basic (VB) (v6.0 and/or .NET), undergraduate degree in a numerical discipline (Actuarial Science, Math, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, etc.) plus have satisfactorily completed at least one introductory-level Statistics course.  Must be US citizen and able to obtain a governmental clearance. Salary $open (PR5615*)