Insurance Actuarial Specialist - Expert
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Remote
$80 CAD / hour
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Job details
- Pay
- $80 CAD / hour
- Workplace
- Remote
- Experience
- 2+ years of professional actuarial experience (any practice area).
- Working hours
- 20–40 hours/week
- Posting language
- English
Original job description
About the job
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.
Position: Insurance Actuarial Specialists
Type: Contract
Compensation: $80/hour
Location: Remote
Commitment: 20–40 hours/week
Role Responsibilities
- Design realistic scenarios involving ratemaking, loss reserving, valuation, experience studies, assumption-setting, and profitability analysis.
- Create work products such as pricing models, reserve reviews, actuarial memoranda, technical assumptions, and results summaries.
- Write "golden" reference responses at experienced actuarial-professional quality.
- Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for methodological soundness, calculation accuracy, assumption justification, and clear communication.
- Identify flawed methods, calculation errors, unsupported assumptions, and gaps in documented rationale.
- Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- 2+ years of professional actuarial experience (any practice area).
- Understand how methods, assumptions, and data drive pricing, reserves, and valuation.
- Ability to select an appropriate method, run the analysis, and articulate a defensible conclusion with a documented rationale.
- Excellent quantitative analysis, balanced judgment, and high attention to detail.
- Ability to distinguish actuarial analysis from underwriting decisions and from formal financial or legal advice.
Preferred
- ASA, FSA, ACAS, FCAS, CERA, MAAA, or comparable credential (or actively passing exams).
- Experience across multiple practice areas or specialty lines.
- Reinsurance, capital modeling, or enterprise risk experience.
- Proficiency with R, Python, SAS, SQL, or actuarial software (Prophet, Emblem, Radar, ResQ).
- Experience with regulatory filings, rate filings, or statements of actuarial opinion.
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
- For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
- For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com
PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Insurance Actuarial Specialist at Mercor will design actuarial scenarios, produce pricing models and reserve reviews, and grade AI-generated answers against rubrics. The role also writes feedback that the research team uses to improve model behavior.
Requirements
Candidates need at least 2 years of professional actuarial experience and a strong grasp of how methods, assumptions and data drive pricing and reserves. Strong quantitative analysis and attention to detail are required; credentials such as ASA, FSA, FCAS or MAAA are preferred.
Skills
- Actuarial analysis
- Ratemaking
- Loss reserving
- Valuation
- Experience studies
- Assumption setting
- Profitability analysis
- Pricing models
- Actuarial memoranda
- Quantitative analysis
- Technical writing
- Rubric-based grading
- R
- Python
- SAS
- SQL
- Prophet
- Emblem
- Radar
- ResQ
- Reinsurance
- Capital modeling
- Rate filings
- Statement of actuarial opinion
Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Insurance
- Data & Analytics
- Technology
Keywords
- actuary
- actuarial
- ratemaking
- loss reserving
- valuation
- experience study
- assumption setting
- profitability analysis
- pricing model
- reserve review
- actuarial memorandum
- Prophet
- Emblem
- Radar
- ResQ
- R
- Python
- SAS
- SQL
- ASA
Seniority
Senior
Licences and certifications
- ASA
- FSA
- ACAS
- FCAS
- CERA
- MAAA
Tools
- R
- Python
- SAS
- SQL
- Prophet
- Emblem
- Radar
- ResQ
Languages
- English