Your Role
The Large Group Pricing team is responsible for pricing and forecasting our Large Group Health Insurance products. The Experienced Actuarial Analysts will report to the Manager. In this role you will be applying your analytical toolset to project the future costs and premiums for the Large Group customers, as well as additional analysis and reporting for emerging results.
Your Work
In this role, you will:
Understand the core principles and functionality of decision, descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytic methods including forecasting, statistical and machine learning techniques
Understand the core principles and functionality of decision, descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytic methods including forecasting, statistical and machine learning techniques
Conduct and develop analysis, assess risk and population risk scores and assignment, develop pricing and trends, assess changes in benefit designs, develop reserves, perform forecasting, analyze provider reimbursement terms and/or evaluates actuarial risk related analysis
Coordinate, prepare, perform and audit actuarial analyses to assist in the development of complex actuarial formulations leading to the recommendation of pricing, trending, reserving, provider reimbursement and/or risk assessment strategies
Perform data exploration using a combination of statistical programming languages (including, but not limited R, Python, SQL, SAS) and deploy predictive analytics and machine learning techniques to improve risk prediction, improve reserve, trend and financial forecasting in a manner that is actuarially sound, and enable real-time results and operational efficiencies
Direct, coordinate, and/or develop evaluation and financial reporting standards for internal and external reports
Produce timely various standard analytic reports for internal and/or external use
Study for exams towards credentials
Your Knowledge and Experience
Requires a bachelor's degree with at least a minor in mathematics, statistics, computer science or equivalent business experience
Requires at least 2 years of professional actuarial experience
Typically, has completed 1 to 2 courses towards the eventual attainment of the Associate, Society of Actuaries (ASA) designation
Pay Range:
The pay range for this role is: $ 79750.00 to $ 111650.00 for California.
Note:
Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.