El1 Actuary
3 weeks ago
EL1 Actuary
**Overview**
Our client in Sydney is seeking an EL1 Actuary (Professional Stream) is an important team leadership position within the department and will have delegated authority and responsibility to resolve issues and risks across wide-ranging activities. The position will provide the leadership, control, planning, resource management, performance management and decision making for team members working within the position’s assigned Work Area. The role is responsible for actively managing key internal and external stakeholder relationships and may be required to represent and negotiate on behalf of the department to advance the department’s interests across a range of forums.
**Responsibilities may include but are not limited to**.
- Providing statistical and actuarial advice.
- Oversight and management of reporting, analysis and data management activities as required, including regular performance monitoring.
- Designing actuarial, statistical and mathematical models to undertake analytical work that respond to business issues, including actuarial monitoring and analyses, data tabulations, scheme projects and cost benefit analyses.
- Undertaking ad hoc modelling requests and report production.
- Effectively communicating (verbally and in writing) and presenting the outcomes of work undertaken, tailored to context.
**Essential Criteria**
- Proficiency in R or Python, with preference towards R, including: - Clean/transform/summarise large data sets (e.g., data.table, dplyr) - Functional programming practices - Train/evaluate/infer machine learning models (g. xgboost)
- Proficiency in SQL
- Some experience with version control systems, i.e., git
- Experience building statistical or machine learning models.
- Experience leading a team / delegating task.
**Desirable criteria**
- Experience with agile
- Package development in R (devtools, roxygen2)
- Dashboard development in R (shiny)
Length of Contract:12 months contract with 12 months extension later
The role closes at 2pm Thursday 13th April 2023
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