Junior Specialist, Actuarial

Job Title

Junior Specialist, Actuarial

Location

Hybrid (Manchester, NH)

Summary

Provides Actuarial support as directed to various projects and strategic issues including, but not limited to, Reserve liability projections, Regulatory reporting, Business Operational reporting, Financial reporting and controls, and Acquisition efforts.  Helps develop management information based on actuarial and financial analyses for use in multiple internal and external processes.

Essential Functions

• Work on multiple assignments under supervision in support of department goals with manager or supervisor direction
• Assist in basic-level research to selected business problems
• Supports external, internal and management teams to meet business needs and corporate goals.
• Participate in the evaluation of business requirements including key company initiatives
• Participate in the projection of estimated reserve liability for Acquisitions, including Captives.  Communicate with Business Acquisition team and Actuarial management as to data needs and conclusions, findings, and further steps.
• Demonstrates open minded and collaborative approach to creating innovative technical solutions

Required Skills

• Demonstrated technical excellence in Microsoft Office 2013 (especially Excel), SQL, VBA, and database query tools
• Basic understanding of actuarial job function and how to apply skills to needs of department and other related cross-functional teams.
• Experience working with agile methodologies and cross-functional teams

Experience

0-2 years of insurance experience required.  Ability to think through solutions to presented problems

Required Education

BS/BA degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Business Analytics, or any other related or relevant field.

Preferred Education or Certification

0-3 actuarial exams

Supervisory Role

N/A

Travel

Less than 10%

Work Environment / Physical Demands

This position operates in a professional, collaborative environment and must have the ability to timely produce thorough, accurate work with many competing demands, deadlines, and distractions.  The position uses standard equipment such as phones, computers, copiers/printers, and filing cabinets.  Noise level is moderate. 

Other Duties (Disclaimer Statement):  RiverStone retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position as needed, or other duties or responsibilities may change or be assigned as needed.

Core Competencies

Problem Solving (51): Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.

Learning on the Fly (32): Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Action Oriented (1): Enjoys working hard; is action oriented and full of energy for the things he/she sees as challenging; not fearful of acting with a minimum of planning; seizes more opportunities than others.

Dealing with Ambiguity (2): Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.

Conflict Management (12): Steps up to conflicts, seeing them as opportunities; reads situations quickly; good at focused listening; can hammer out tough agreements and settle disputes equitably; can find common ground and get cooperation with minimum noise.

Process Management (52): Good at figuring out the processes necessary to get things done; knows how to organize people and activities; understands how to separate and combine tasks into efficient flow; knows what to measure and how to measure it; can see opportunities for synergy and integration where others can’t; can simplify complex processes; gets more out of fewer resources.

Sizing Up People (56): Is a good judge of talent; after reasonable exposure, can articulate the strengths and limitations of people inside or outside the organization; can accurately project what people are likely to do across a variety of situations.

Ethics and Values (22): Adheres to an appropriate (for the setting) and effective set of core values and beliefs during both good and bad times; acts in line with those values; rewards the right values and disapproves of others; practices what he/she preaches.

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