Senior Actuarial Analyst - Multiple Locations

We all know that there's a lot more to come in the changes sweeping through the health care industry. But if change is going to shape our world, it's comforting to know that we're shaping the change. As a Senior Actuarial Analyst, you will be part of UnitedHealth Group's elite Actuarial team committed to changing health care through outstanding service, valuable products, measurable savings and health care plans designed to fit members' lives, year after year. Join us. There's never been a better time to do your life's best work.(sm)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop ASO pricing methodologies and assumptions for the self-funded business
  
• Perform data mining and actuarial analysis that impact pricing assumptions, including support for your pricing development
  
• Build actuarial and financial models for pricing
  
• Develop a process that connects financial reporting into pricing data for the self-funded business
  
• Analyze financial reports to explain the impact of changes to the impact on the pricing model; you will be analyzing the expense side of the general ledger during your analysis
  
• Lead the monthly reporting process for self-funded pricing, which takes sold self-funded groups into useable data for UMR accounting, finance and/or management as well as actuarial pricing
  
• Lead the process for improved data management and controls of the pricing/reporting process, find efficiencies in the tie out process, and improve the infrastructure to allow more flexibility as new business needs arise (new clients, finance changes, etc.)
  
• Design and run complex data programs
  
• Discuss numbers with Finance, Accounting, Actuaries, Underwriters, etc.
  
• Other ad hoc work as requested

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree
  
• On the Actuarial exam track, having passed 4 or more Actuarial exams
  
• 3+ years of Actuarial experience
  
• Experience in the insurance industry
  
• Expertise working with formulas, calculations, charts, graphs in MS Excel
  
• Ability to communicate complex information
  
• Basic level of proficiency in databases (examples are Access, SAS, SQL, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• ASA (Associate of the Society of Actuaries) or FSA (Fellow of the Society of Actuaries) designation
  
• Prior pricing experience

Careers at UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual. We all want to make a difference with the work we do. Sometimes we're presented with an opportunity to make a difference on a scale we couldn't imagine. Here, you get that opportunity every day. As a member of one of our elite teams, you'll provide the ideas and solutions that help nearly 25 million customers live healthier lives. You'll help write the next chapter in the history of health care. And you'll find a wealth of open doors and career paths that will take you as far as you want to go. Go further. This is your life's best work.(sm)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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