Remote Actuarial Analyst — Ratemaking & Reserves (Contract)

Mercor; Toronto; Remote; CAD 133,000 - 181,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor, a connectors company for elite creative and technical talent, seeks Insurance Actuarial Specialists for a remote contract. Start immediately with 20–40 hours per week at $80 per hour.

Design, validate pricing, reserves, and valuation work products; and ensure rigorous analyses and precise documentation. We value expert communication, method selection, and the ability to critique AI-generated outputs.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional actuarial experience in 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 rationale.
• Excellent quantitative analysis, balanced judgment, and high attention to detail.
• Distinguish actuarial analysis from underwriting and from formal financial or legal advice.

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.

Job description

Mercor, a connectors company for elite creative and technical talent, seeks Insurance Actuarial Specialists for a remote contract. Start immediately with 20–40 hours per week at $80 per hour.

Design, validate pricing, reserves, and valuation work products; and ensure rigorous analyses and precise documentation. We value expert communication, method selection, and the ability to critique AI-generated outputs.