P&C Actuary - Risk Management

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Position: P&C Actuary & Portfolio Risk Manager

Type: Contract Compensation: $800/hour Location: Remote Commitment: 20–40 hours/week Role Responsibilities

• Design realistic scenarios involving loss costs, rate indications, trend, development, credibility, segmentation, reserving, profitability, capital, catastrophe exposure, and portfolio concentration.
• Create work products such as pricing analyses, reserve reviews, portfolio diagnostics, assumption critiques, sensitivity analyses, and management recommendations.
• Write "golden" reference responses at experienced actuarial and portfolio-risk quality.
• Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for mathematical accuracy, assumption quality, methodology, interpretation, and communication.
• Identify calculation errors, unsupported assumptions, misuse of actuarial methods, confusing correlation with causation, and recommendations not supported by the data.
• Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior.

Qualifications Must-Have

• 2+ years of professional experience in P&C actuarial work, insurance pricing, reserving, catastrophe modeling, or portfolio risk management.
• Experience in quantitative analysis using insurance premium, exposure, claim, loss, or reserve data.
• Ability to explain methods, assumptions, limitations, and business implications clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Strong quantitative reasoning, excellent written communication, and high attention to detail.
• Proficiency with spreadsheets and at least one analytical or statistical tool.

Preferred

• ACAS, FCAS, or active progress toward CAS credentials.
• Experience with personal, commercial, specialty, or reinsurance portfolios.
• Catastrophe modeling, capital modeling, predictive modeling, or rate-filing experience.
• Proficiency with SQL, R, Python, SAS, or actuarial modeling platforms.
• Experience presenting results to underwriting, finance, claims, or executive stakeholders.

Start Date

• Immediately; applications reviewed on a rolling basis.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

• Upload resume
• AI interview based on your resume
• Submit form

Resources & Support

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