EL1 Lead Actuary

4 days ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Talent Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year

The opportunity
Our client is a community focused federal government agency. They have an exciting opportunity available for an EL1 level Lead Actuary to join their Analytics, Data & Actuarial Division.

  • Richmond or Geelong location plus hybrid work-from-home
  • 12 month initial contract + 12 month extension, rates fully negotiable
  • Role only open to Australian Citizens - Federal government client

The role
As an El1 lead Actuary, your responsibilities will include:

  • Providing statistical and actuarial advice
  • Providing 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
  • Presenting the outcomes of work undertaken, tailored to context via verbal and written communication

About you
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Extensive experience as an Actuary, including leadership
- Strong proficiency in R or Python, with preference towards R, including clean/transform/summarise large data set (e.g. data table, dplyr)
- Functional programming practices - train/evaluate/infer machine/ learning model e.g. xgboost
- Proficiency in SQL
- Experience building statistical or machine learning models
- Relevant academic qualifications including tertiary qualifications in Actuarial Studies or Mathematics/Statistics, progressing towards Associate and/or Fellowship qualifications.
- Experience with agile
- Experience with version controls systems i.e. git
- Experience with package development in R (Devtools, roxygen2), and dashboard development in R (shiny)
- Excellent communication skills and stakeholder engagement, ideally proven in larger corporate, government or insurance organisationsPlease note that as our client is a federal government organisation, you must be an
Australian Citizen
to be eligible for this role.

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