Actuary Lead – P&C Pricing and Reserving Actuary Team

Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

The Opportunity

As a Lead Actuary on the Small Business Insurance team at USAA, you will play a pivotal role in strengthening actuarial and analytical capabilities. You will provide essential pricing support by developing new rating structures, conducting rate indications, and collaborating closely with underwriting and product teams to deliver key insights that drive business growth. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact on a new business and contribute diverse actuarial expertise across key initiatives

Credentialed actuary who leverages expert, broad actuarial knowledge in at least one actuarial practice area (pricing, reserving, modeling, catastrophe risk, claims analytics, product management, etc.) to identify, define, and design solutions for complex, thought-provoking problems that drive business results at the LOB level.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations: San Antonio, TX; Tampa, FL. Colorado Springs, CO. or Phoenix, AZ campuses. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

What you'll do:

• Applies deep and broad actuarial knowledge to identify, define, and design solutions to complex problems with ambiguous requirements (e.g., end-to-end design of rate level indications process for a new product; independently shapes and transforms all aspects of machine learning and AI for a product: (data selection, model selection, stakeholder communications, performance monitoring, etc.); independently runs catastrophe models for advanced ad-hoc analyses; provides guidance and training to peers for running and validating the catastrophe models; enhances current methodologies to tailor catastrophe model results to better represent USAA’s risk; designs and performs broad and complex actuarial analyses that produces actionable insights for company-level decision-making designs reserving methodology and technical platform for new product.

• Utilizes advanced actuarial, mathematical, or statistical techniques to augment actuarial work product, methodologies, and procedures.

• Leads special actuarial projects, such as the development of new pricing methodologies or  reporting tools to impact LOB-level initiatives.

• Provides thought and/or technical expertise on complex topics and influences key stakeholders on business decisions.

• Leads cross-functional actuarial initiatives.

• Strategically partners with IT to influence the design, alignment, and implementation of technical business standards.

• Manages USAA vendor relationship(s).

• Assists the business unit with translating strategic objectives into tactical solutions.

• Maintains current knowledge of market trends and emerging risks and proactively develops strategies, policies, and processes to address them.

• Develops written communication and presentations that effectively to convey data-driven solutions to broad audiences including cross-functional executive leadership. 

• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

• Bachelor’s degree OR 4 years of related Actuarial/business/analytical (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree. (Total of 12 years of experience without bachelor’s degree)

• 8 years of Actuarial or analytical business experience + Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society (ACAS) Credential held for 3 years; OR 6 years of Actuarial or analytical business experience + Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS) Credential.

• Demonstrated expertise with relevant actuarial, mathematical, and statistical techniques and approaches used to support fact-based decision-making.

• Advanced knowledge of data analysis tools, data visualization, developing analysis queries and procedures in Python, R, SQL, SAS, BI tools or other analysis software, and relevant industry data & methods and ability to connect