Senior Actuarial Analyst - Chicago P&C (Chicago or Milwaukee)

Who We Are

Independent for over 75 years, Milliman delivers market-leading services and solutions to clients worldwide. Today, we are helping companies take on some of the world’s most critical and complex issues, including retirement funding, mortgage and healthcare financing, risk management and regulatory compliance, data analytics and business transformation.

 

Milliman invests in skills training and career development and gives all employees access to a variety of learning and mentoring opportunities. Our growing number of Milliman Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are employee-led communities that influence policy decisions, develop future leaders, and amplify the voices of their constituents. We encourage our employees to give back to their varied professions, including leadership in professional organizations. Please visit our web site (https://www.milliman.com/en/social-impact) to learn more about Milliman’s commitments to our people, diversity and inclusion, social impact and sustainability.

Milliman’s Chicago-based Property and Casualty practice is one of the leading experts in P&C insurance matters. We advise clients on a wide range of issues – including loss reserving and ratemaking for commercial lines of insurance, including medical professional liability, workers’ compensation, auto liability and general liability. The Chicago casualty practice’s clients include Fortune 500 corporations, healthcare institutions, privately held companies, public entities, captive insurers and reinsurers. Our consulting work is supported by a powerful toolkit of analytics software solutions. As innovators in risk assessment, Milliman embraces technology and builds renowned data-driven tools that evaluate risk for a wide variety of applications.

The Opportunity

On a day-to-day basis, the Senior Actuarial Analyst will play a key role in complex projects that contribute to our clients’ business strategy. Working autonomously and with project team members, they will be expected to produce high-quality analytical work and delegate some tasks to junior staff. Much of this person’s work will involve complex data manipulation and summarization in Excel, but supplemental programming, statistical, and database skills are highly valued and will open up additional opportunities for impactful client assignments and advancement.

 

Our ideal Senior Actuarial Analyst enjoys thinking critically to solve a client’s business problems; demonstrates professionalism and strong communication skills in all internal and external interactions; pairs their strong technical skills with creativity; and possesses a strong work ethic and intrinsic motivation.

 

Actuaries in this practice are expected to pursue credentials with the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) by taking and passing actuarial examinations, and are provided time and monetary resources to support this pursuit.

 

Responsibilities will include:

• Oversee the execution of projects, whether ad hoc or longer-term
• Direct interaction with client and/or client's other vendor partners (e.g., broker, captive manager, auditor)
• Draft written reports and exhibits, and prepare other internal/external correspondence
• Comply with internal quality control, risk management, and peer review guidelines
• Present findings to peers, project managers, and client relationship managers
• Check their own and peers’ work for accuracy in the mechanics as well as the methodology
• Write detailed documentation to keep track of how data is compiled for specific projects
• Implement process improvements to produce better results
• Perform or assist with other duties assigned at the direction of practice Principals

 

What We Are Looking For

Professional Qualifications

• A minimum of three actuarial exams passed at the time of application, and in pursuit of an Associate credential from the Casualty Actuarial Society
• Between three and seven years of fulltime actuarial work experience in reserving and/or pricing
• Completed Bachelor’s degree or higher at the time of application, including quantitative coursework in actuarial science, mathematics, statistics, etc.
• Proven proficiency in complex data analysis using MS Excel
• Experience using MS PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams and Word
• Familiarity with R, SAS, VBA, and/or other coding languages is welcome

 

Personal Qualifications

• A passion for storytelling with numbers; ability to analyze raw data, draw conclusions, develop actionable recommendations and deliver to clients with confidence
• Superb attention to detail and dedication to technical accu