P&C Actuary - Risk Specialist

Mercor; Auckland; Remote; NZD 162,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a P&C Actuary & Portfolio Risk Manager for a remote contract role. You will design and analyze loss costs, rate indications, and portfolio risk, delivering pricing analyses, reserve reviews, and diagnostics.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years in P&C actuarial work, strong quantitative skills, and ability to communicate complex methods clearly. This role offers 20–40 hours weekly with immediate start.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional P&C actuarial work experience.
• Experience with pricing, reserving, catastrophe modeling, or portfolio risk.
• Ability to explain methods and assumptions clearly.
• Strong quantitative reasoning and written communication.
• Proficiency with spreadsheets and at least one analytical tool.

Responsibilities

• Design scenarios including loss costs, rate indications, and capital exposure.
• Produce pricing analyses, reserve reviews, and portfolio diagnostics.
• Review AI-generated outputs for accuracy and reliability.
• Provide feedback to improve model behavior.
• Communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Portfolio risk

Actuarial pricing

Communication

Spreadsheets

Tools

SQL

R

Python

SAS

Actuarial modeling platforms

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: P&C Actuary & Portfolio Risk Manager

Type: Contract

Compensation: $80/hour

Location: Remote

Commitment: 20–40 hours/week

Role Responsibilities

• Design realistic scenarios involving loss costs, rate indications, trend, development, credibility, segmentation, reserving, profitability, capital, catastrophe exposure, and portfolio concentration.


• Create work products such as pricing analyses, reserve reviews, portfolio diagnostics, assumption critiques, sensitivity analyses, and management recommendations.


• Write "golden" reference responses at experienced actuarial and portfolio-risk quality.


• Grade AI-generated responses against structured rubrics for mathematical accuracy, assumption quality, methodology, interpretation, and communication.


• Identify calculation errors, unsupported assumptions, misuse of actuarial methods, confusing correlation with causation, and recommendations not supported by the data.


• Provide written feedback the research team uses to improve model behavior.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 2+ years of professional experience in P&C actuarial work, insurance pricing, reserving, catastrophe modeling, or portfolio risk management.


• Experience in quantitative analysis using insurance premium, exposure, claim, loss, or reserve data.


• Understanding of the difference between account-level underwriting judgment and portfolio-level actuarial analysis.


• Ability to explain methods, assumptions, limitations, and business implications clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.


• Strong quantitative reasoning, excellent written communication, and high attention to detail.


• Proficiency with spreadsheets and at least one analytical or statistical tool.

Preferred

• ACAS, FCAS, or active progress toward CAS credentials.


• Experience with personal, commercial, specialty, or reinsurance portfolios.


• Catastrophe modeling, capital modeling, predictive modeling, or rate-filing experience.


• Proficiency with SQL, R, Python, SAS, or actuarial modeling platforms.


• Experience presenting results to underwriting, finance, claims, or executive stakeholders.

Start Date

• Immediate start; 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]