Health Actuary Consultant- Senior Associate

Overview

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Benefits

Industry/Sector: HI X-Sector

Time Type: Full time

Travel Requirements: Up to 60%

As a PwC Healthcare Consulting Actuary, you will be part of our exciting, growing team that provides strategic, analytic, and technical support to our payer and provider clients. The healthcare sector continues to evolve, so our clients look to us to support them in redefining their strategy and thinking to maintain market share, margins, and achieve cost savings.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Minimum Degree Required
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Bachelor Degree

Minimum Years Of Experience
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3 year(s)

Preferred Qualifications
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Preferred Fields of Study
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Mathematical Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Public Policy Analysis, Mathematical Economics, Finance

Certification(s) Preferred
: 4+ Actuarial Exams

Preferred Knowledge/Skills
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Demonstrates thorough level abilities and a proven record of success as a team/functional contributor in the Payer and/or Provider industries, including:

• Contributing to projects involving actuarial aspects of commercial and government programs and issues in a major consulting firm or corporate environment, emphasizing areas that include pricing, underwriting, health plan financial reporting, data analysis, and risk adjustment;
• Helping companies define and evaluate corporate and business unit strategies and investment portfolios; and,
• Analyzing market, competitive, and other external drivers.

Demonstrates thorough level abilities and a proven record of success in the following areas:

• Analyzing clients’ medical claim data to understand historical trends and suggest opportunities to implement savings initiatives;
• Writing medical cost and risk adjustment analytics using SAS to help clients identify sources of value;
• Analyzing a company’s financial statements finding opportunities to enhance their reporting;
• Supporting mergers and acquisitions by evaluating a target’s financial statements and developing a quality of earnings adjustment as well as providing insight into the target’s expected future earnings potential;
• Completing IBNR reserve analyses and assessing actuarial balances as part of year-end financial audits for health and life insurance companies; and,
• Researching business and industry trends to develop a point of view to leverage in assisting with proposals and opportunities across multiple lines of service.

Demonstrates through level abilities and a proven record of success with automation & digitization in a professional services environment, including:

• Analyzing clients’…