Senior Actuarial Analyst - Remote Eligible

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What you will do:
Work closely with the department’s Actuaries to develop and maintain actuarial models
Develop basic underwriting and actuarial skills as you build your knowledge of the Services Warranty business
Identify opportunities for process improvements
Perform root cause analysis
Financial reporting and analysis
The impact you will have:
Drive business decisions that have material financial impact
Highly visible role that is working with a number of cross-functional partners
Leverage your analytical capabilities to bring value added insights to various stakeholders across the enterprise
Why considers this opportunity?
Participate in the transformation of the Services business by playing a key role within the actuarial department
Partner and help make financial decisions that drive the Services warranty business
Be a consultative partner to drive efficiencies and cost reduction
Entrepreneurship and innovation is not only welcomed, but highly encouraged and appreciated
How we take care of our employees:

In addition to offering a challenging and fulfilling opportunity, we have a competitive salary and bonus program, full benefits including 23 days of PTO (that is 4 weeks!), and a generous employee discount. Our campus has many amazing amenities, including full cafeteria, fitness center, onsite discounted daycare, not 1 but 2 Caribou’s, US Bank, dry-cleaning service, company store, Farmers Market ONSITE during the summer, and free covered parking.


Formal Job Description:

The Geek Squad Protection (GSP) actuarial function provides critical analytics and cost management on our warranty reserve portfolio and the related annual written premium. This role is critical to drive costs out of the GSP warranty model, to enable new innovative product offerings and solutions which drive higher sales and longer term customer relationships, and to serve as **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***.'s subject matter expert in the business and industry drivers impacting the underwriting and actuarial results within our warranty service contracts business.

This role is highly cross-functional and is required to operate independently in managing the warranty service contract reserve associated with all of the product categories. This role is expected to lead without authority to drive to business decisions that have material financial impact to the Geek Squad Protection warranty portfolio and overall **MEMBERS ONLY**SIGN UP NOW***. profitability. This role is a key strategic player in managing the relationship with our 3rd party warranty obligor and underwriter, along with our internal reserve and management, and is expected to achieve strategic and financial outcomes that are mutually acceptable and agreeable between the parties.


Essential Functions:
Provide actuarial and business insights to the warranty portfolio and larger Services business, including analyzing frequency, severity, and claims mix trends, developing forecast and financial models, managing data from a wide variety of systems, and preparing monthly/weekly reporting packages and communicating them out to all levels, including executives.
Perform analytical and actuarial duties as assigned.
Become familiar with company operations, systems, and actuarial methodologies.
Identify opportunities for business process improvement, pricing optimization and cost savings, as well as risks to the current business plan.
Work with other internal and external actuaries by sharing business trends/decisions and aligning on methodologies.
Manage actuarial relationship with 3rd party warranty underwriter & obligor
Manage internal reserve by understanding usage of benefits and claiming patterns
Perform root cause analysis for increasing frequencies, excessive claim payments, and compliance related issues.
Present oral and written reports by interpreting data to explain the trending and tracking of warranty sales and expenses
Develop SQL programming skills to become self-sufficient in pulling data needed for various analysis
Ad hoc reporting and analytics as required.
Basic Qualifications:
BS/BA in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related subjects
2 or more Societies of Actuaries (SOA) or Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) actuarial exams
2 years of actuarial experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Computer programming experience (SQL, VBA, other object-oriented languages)
Experience with rate making or P&C actuarial concepts is a plus.
A strong mathematical understanding combined with analytical and modeling skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills required
A high level of proficiency in Excel

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