Remote Insurance Actuarial Specialist — Contract, $80/hr

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

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.