Actuarial Expert

Job Description

The Actuarial Expert leverages strong technical actuarial skills and business acumen to drive critical growth and profitability projects in Wawanesa's critical Alberta Auto product segment. This includes delivering increasingly sophisticated pricing plans, advanced analytics, and insights. We are looking for someone who will drive strong business recommendations, working closely with partner functions from product design and business development to advanced analytics and claims.

Job Responsibilities

• High degree of mastery over accessing, selecting, and interpreting data.
• Works independently.
• Mastery over multiple types of analytical tools.
• Evaluates procedures and processes, and recommend alternatives or improvements.
• Subject matter expert on valuable analytical methods
• Strong ability to innovate on complex projects
• Automates routine tasks to focus on high-leverage work items.
• Able to design and implement robust processes that make work easier for themselves and their peers.
• Develops creative approaches to solve complex issues and assesses impacts of solution options.
• A leader in the actuarial community. May include teaching, volunteering, or authoring papers to advance actuarial knowledge. Brings that knowledge and experience to Wawanesa's actuarial community.
• Regularly shares their expertise with other actuaries at Wawanesa. Contributes to training materials. Facilitates opportunities for others to learn. Keeps up with their professional development opportunities.
• Has a strong network inside and outside of Wawanesa. Leverages rapport with stakeholders to keep people up to date on key projects.
• Leads large-scale, complex and high-impact projects and initiatives across diverse project teams. Requires minimal oversight from management. Includes implementation of final product. Includes training and documentation of the project.
• Actively contributes to the mentorship, training and development of actuarial analysts and sometimes managers.
• Creates coaching opportunities with analysts and managers to improve their technical abilities.
• Performs thoughtful and relevant peer-review at a high level.
• Uses their expertise to raise the skill level of the people around them.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or other related discipline.

• More than ten years of actuarial experience an asset.

• FCAS designation required

• Advanced communicator. People trust the communications of an expert.

• Leaves behind useful and functional documentation on projects.

• Strong negotiator and storyteller. Uses graphs and data in a way that supplements their arguments.

• Persuasive with the conclusions from their work. Often presents their work to Director + level.

• Fully proficient with Excel, SQL, R, Python, or other specialized programs.

• Leverages the right program(s) for the job

• Excellent problem solver. Integrates knowledge from actuarial science, math, statistics, general business to solve advanced problems. Often working on the highest-priority problems for Wawanesa. May offer recommendations for what are the highest-priority problems for Wawanesa to solve.

• Others can trust that the Actuarial Expert has attended to the right details for their work.

• Attends to the right details for accuracy, reasonability, and consistency in their conclusions.

• Ability to prioritize and complete multiple concurrent assignments, both individually and as a leader of a group, in a timely manner while proactively keeping leader informed of progress.

• Develops effective and accurate timelines for project planning.

• Ability to work efficiently and co-operatively in a team environment.

• Ability to respectfully challenge status quo.

• Ability to draw out insights from other team members, leveraging the experience of the full team.

• Ensures team members are applying current industry and professional standards to requirements and decisions.

• Analyzes impact on team's work when changes are made to relevant standards and recommends appropriate actions.

• Diversity Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

• At Wawanesa, we are committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) and believe that our strength lies in the diversity of our people – this is supported by having a representative workforce.

• We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, including racialized persons, women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, gender-diverse and neurodiverse individuals, and anyone who can contribute to the further diversification of thought and ideas.

• We aim to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all candidates.

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• Please note that the recruitment process for this position may involve the use of AI tools to screen, assess, or select applicants. All final decisions are taken or reviewed by human recruiters and human hiring leaders in compliance with all applicable legislation.