Senior R&D Actuary Mortality & Lapse Modeling Lead (Remote)

Socket.dev; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 244,000; Full time

Job summary

Swiss Re seeks an experienced Senior R&D Actuary to drive mortality and lapse assumption development for US and Canadian markets. You will translate data into actionable insights to inform pricing, product development, and portfolio management.

You will lead analytics, collaborate with Risk Management and market units, and present findings to clients and internal teams. This hybrid role offers complex challenges and opportunities to influence strategy.

Qualifications

• Fellowship with the Society of Actuaries with 7+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, actuarial science, or related field with demonstrated mathematical and analytical abilities
• Experience in mortality and lapse assumption development for life insurance products
• Proven ability to translate complex analytical findings into clear business recommendations
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present effectively to various stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Lead experience analysis initiatives to monitor population and insured life trends across direct insurance and reinsurance portfolios
• Develop key assumptions for mortality and lapse rates used in new business costing, in-force management opportunities, and business valuation
• Analyze complex data sets to identify underlying drivers of mortality and lapse, including policyholder behavior, product characteristics, and underwriting methods
• Create innovative tools and analytics to enhance monitoring methods and improve assumption accuracy
• Stay current with industry research and publications to continuously refine our methodologies
• Collaborate cross-functionally with US market units, Risk Management, In-force Optimization, and Portfolio Steering & Monitoring teams
• Present findings internally to educate colleagues and externally to clients, potentially at industry events and special client meetings
• Document thoroughly all assumption development processes in compliance with corporate governance standards
• Ensure alignment between developed assumptions and their implementation in models to prevent unexpected errors

Skills

Mortality analysis

Lapse analysis

Life insurance experience

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, actuarial science, or related field

Society of Actuaries Fellowship

Tools

Excel

Visual Basic

R

Python

SAS

AXIS

ICE

Stargate

Job description

Swiss Re seeks an experienced Senior R&D Actuary to drive mortality and lapse assumption development for US and Canadian markets. You will translate data into actionable insights to inform pricing, product development, and portfolio management.

You will lead analytics, collaborate with Risk Management and market units, and present findings to clients and internal teams. This hybrid role offers complex challenges and opportunities to influence strategy.