Intermediate Decision Science Analyst - P&C Analytics

USAA Life Insurance Company; United States; Hybrid; USD 77,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

USAA Life Insurance Company seeks an Intermediate Decision Science Analyst to optimize underwriting strategies for personal lines. You will acquire, synthesize, and analyze complex data to inform risk precision, sharing insights to drive profitable growth and enhanced member protection.

The role supports on-site work near USAA offices with remote eligibility, requiring strong statistics, data visualization, and communication to decision-makers across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 4 years of relevant education/experience required.
• Demonstrates intermediate knowledge of mathematical and statistical techniques for fact-based decision-making.
• Intermediate knowledge of data analysis tools (SQL, SAS, BI tools, Python) and visualization to connect insights to business problems.

Responsibilities

• Participate in discussions with cross-functional teams to align on business objectives and influence solution strategies.
• Apply advanced analytical techniques to solve medium to large-scale problems and impact strategy.
• Translate analyses into communication materials for stakeholders and leadership review.
• Use visualization to highlight key points for non-technical audiences.
• Identify and gather relevant data sources, perform testing/EDA, and document methodology and assumptions.

Skills

SQL

SAS

BI tools

Data visualization

Data analysis

Quantitative methods

Education

Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Sciences, Operations Research, Data and/or Business Analysis, Data Science, or a business or quantitative field

4 years of relevant education and/or experience

Tools

Python

Job description

Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values - honesty, integrity, loyalty and service - define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

We are proud to support active-duty military spouses. USAA roles may offer remote or hybrid flexibility for active-duty military spouses consistent with applicable policy and business needs.

The Opportunity

This Intermediate Decision Science Analyst role is integral to optimizing underwriting strategies within the personal lines Property & Casualty business. The role will be responsible for the end-to-end process of acquiring, synthesizing, and analyzing complex data sets. Insights will directly inform critical business decisions related to risk precision, risk sharing, risk mitigation, and risk acceptability, ultimately driving profitable growth and enhanced member protection.

This role is remote eligible in the continental U.S. with occasional business travel. However, individuals residing within a 60-mile radius of a USAA office will be expected to work on-site four days per week.

What you'll do:

• Leverages intermediate business, analytical and technical knowledge to participate in discussions with cross functional teams to understand and collaborate on business objectives and influence solution strategies.
• Applies advanced analytical techniques to solve business problems that are typically medium to large scale with impact to current and/or future business strategy.
• Applies scientific/quantitative analytical approaches to draw conclusions and make 'insight to action' recommendations to answer the business objective and drive the appropriate change.
• Translates recommendation into communication materials to effectively present to colleagues for peer review and senior/lead analysts.
• Incorporates visualization techniques to support the relevant points of the analysis and ease the understanding for less technical audiences.
• Supports identifying and gathering the relevant and quality data sources required to fully answer and address the problem for the recommended strategy through testing or exploratory data analysis (EDA).
• Thoroughly documents assumptions, methodology, validation and testing to facilitate peer reviews and compliance requirements.
• Adopts emerging technology that can affect the application of scientific methodologies and/or quantitative analytical approaches to problem resolutions.
• Delivers analysis/findings in a manner that conveys understanding, influences up to mid level management, garners support for recommendations, drives business decisions, and influences business strategy.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Sciences, Operations Research, Data and/or Business Analysis, Data Science, or a business or quantitative field; OR 4 years of relevant education and/or experience.
• 2 years of experience in data/analytics or functional business experience within the respective industry of responsibility (i.e.P&C, Bank, Finance) OR Advanced degree in quantitative analytics field such as Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Sciences, Operations Research, Data and/or Business Analysis, Data Science or other quantitative discipline.
• Demonstrates intermediate knowledge of mathematical and statistical techniques and approaches used to drive fact-based decision-making.
• Intermediate knowledge of data analysis tools, data visualization, developing analysis queries and procedures in SQL, SAS, BI tools or other analysis software, and relevant industry data & methods and ability to connect external insights to business problems.

What sets you apart:

• Working experience with analytical work supporting Core P&C Insurance Functions
• Working experience using Python for data analysis
• Experience with storytelling with data/ presentation of analytical insights to non-technical audiences
• Working understanding of statistical modeling principles and the ability to interpret model outputs to derive actionable business insights.
• Demonstrates a desire to continuously learn and refine analytical techniques and P&C insurance business acumen.
• US military experience through military service or a military spouse/domestic partner

Compensation range: The salary range for this position is: $77,120 - $147,390 .

USAA does not provide visa sponsorship for this role. Please do not apply for this role if at any time (now or in the future) you will need immigration support (i.e., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT Training Plans, etc.).

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