Actuarial Analyst - Fully Remote

Mercor; Sydney; Remote; AUD 173,000 - 259,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor seeks an Insurance Actuarial Specialist contractor working remotely with a commitment of 20–40 hours per week. The role centers on designing and validating actuarial analyses, including pricing models and reserve reviews, while ensuring methodological soundness and clear documentation.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years actuarial experience, strong quantitative skills, and proficiency in R, Python, SAS, SQL, or actuarial software. Start date is immediate, with rolling reviews.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional actuarial experience
• Understand how methods, assumptions, and data drive pricing, reserves, and valuation
• Ability to select an appropriate method, run analysis, and justify conclusions with rationale
• Excellent quantitative analysis, balanced judgment, and high attention to detail
• Distinguish actuarial analysis from underwriting decisions and from formal financial or legal advice

Responsibilities

• Design scenarios for ratemaking, loss reserving, valuation, and profitability analysis
• Create pricing models, reserve reviews, and actuarial memoranda
• Write high-quality reference responses at actuarial-professional level
• Grade AI-generated outputs against structured rubrics for soundness and accuracy
• Identify flawed methods, errors, and gaps in documentation and rationale
• Provide written feedback to improve model behavior

Skills

Actuarial analysis

Pricing

Loss reserving

Data interpretation

Attention to detail

Tools

R

Python

SAS

SQL

Prophet

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.

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: [e-mail]