Remote Insurance Actuarial Specialist (Contract)

Mercor; England; Remote; GBP 68,000 - 97,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an Insurance Actuarial Specialist on a contract basis. This remote role requires 20–40 hours per week and offers engaging work on pricing, reserves, and valuation in collaboration with a research team. You will develop pricing models, conduct experience studies, and prepare actuarial memoranda while ensuring rigor and defensible conclusions. The position starts immediately and involves evaluating AI-generated outputs against actuarial standards.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional actuarial experience in any practice area.
• Understanding 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 documented rationale.
• Excellent quantitative analysis, balanced judgment, and high attention to detail.

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.

Skills

Actuarial experience

Pricing & reserving knowledge

Documented rationale

Attention to detail

Analytical judgment

Education

Actuarial credentials

Tools

R

Python

SAS

SQL

Prophet

Emblem

Radar

ResQ

Job description

Mercor is seeking an Insurance Actuarial Specialist on a contract basis. This remote role requires 20–40 hours per week and offers engaging work on pricing, reserves, and valuation in collaboration with a research team. You will develop pricing models, conduct experience studies, and prepare actuarial memoranda while ensuring rigor and defensible conclusions. The position starts immediately and involves evaluating AI-generated outputs against actuarial standards.