Associate Actuary, Modeling
Any location, Canada
Coalition
Coalition combines comprehensive cyber insurance coverage and security services to help businesses prevent digital risk before it strikes.About us
Coalition is the world's first Active Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risk before it strikes. Founded in 2017, Coalition combines broad insurance coverage with a digital risk assessment and continuous security monitoring to help organizations protect themselves in today’s hyper-connected world.
Opportunities to make an impact with bold thinking are real - and happening daily.
About the role
Coalition is looking for a seasoned insurance predictive modeler to help build out our world-class modeling team. This role comes with a significant amount of ownership and demands a high level of technical skill paired with strong actuarial expertise. You will act as the actuarial subject matter expert in the creation and maintenance of modeling pipelines for many key pricing functions across the cyber and executive risk lines. You will consistently strive for the best modeling techniques to support the business needs while always seeking for the enhancement of our operational efficiency. You will work in a cross-team collaboration environment to develop new ways to model and understand risk in order to optimize our rating structure.
We’re looking for someone who will roll up sleeves to always push the boundaries and provide the best to our customers and who can bring unique ideas to the table, explore new methods/technologies and always seek for the next best improvement.
Responsibilities
- Core price modeling responsibilities include:
- Development and maintenance of modeling pipelines framework with relevant metrics and analysis that are scalable, efficient, accurate and complete, to enable data-informed pricing decisions
- Act as the main liaison between the Actuarial Modeling and the Pricing team, seeking to find the best trade-off solutions to optimize business outcomes.
- Model Governance, including ongoing model monitoring, clear understanding of model limitations and communication of the results to stakeholders
- Development of tools to enhance model interpretation, assess model performance and provide meaningful insights to non-technical stakeholders
- Seek innovative opportunities to enhance model performance through new data, features or modeling techniques
- Perform, document and present ad hoc quantitative analysis
- Straddle the worlds of insurance, data science, engineering and security experts to shape the most suitable data-driven solutions
- Act as an ambassador to get model users buy-in through strong collaboration with all relevant partners and digestible presentations to non-technical audiences
- Provide coaching and learning opportunities to junior team members
Skills and Qualifications
- 7+ years of pricing experience
- Has completed 5+ Actuarial Exams
- Undergraduate degree in Actuarial Science, Data Science or any other related field
- Strong programming skills in R, Python, and/or SQL
- Excellent communication skills including ability to vulgarize complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences
- Ability to take ambiguous problems and solve them in a structured data-driven way
- Intellectual curiosity and an interest in our mission of solving cyber risk
- Strong understanding of actuarial pricing concepts
- Ability to work efficiently in a fast paced environment, be creative and think outside the box
Bonus Skills
- ACAS or FCAS designation
- Cyber and/or executive liability experience
- Experience in predictive modeling
- Ability to build transactional data pipelines
- Master degree in Data Science or Actuarial Science
- Ability to build UI/UX design
Perks
- 100% medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible PTO
- Annual home office stipend and WeWork access
- Mental & physical health wellness programs like Headspace, Lumino, and more!
- Competitive compensation and opportunity for advancement
Why Coalition?
We’re a remote-first, mission-driven team committed to building a more inclusive culture with people of all different backgrounds. We trust our team members to take responsibility, share ownership, and put in the work to help us in our pursuit to solve digital risk.
Coalition’s exceptional growth stems from its ability to address real-world problems for organizations of all sizes and remain true to our founding values of character, humility, responsibility, purpose, authenticity, and inclusion.
We’re always looking for collaborative, inquisitive individuals to join #OurCoalition.
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Anti-Discrimination Notice
Coalition is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable laws in each country where we operate. This commitment includes, but is not limited to, ensuring equal treatment in recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, and all other aspects of employment. Coalition does not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, and we are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace.
Accommodations
Coalition is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities, including applicants and employees, in accordance with applicable laws and regulations in each country where we operate. Our policy is to support equal opportunity in the hiring process by considering qualified applicants regardless of disability or other protected characteristics, unless providing accommodation would impose an undue hardship or disproportionate burden. If you require accommodation to complete an application, interview, pre-employment testing, or participate in the selection process, please contact us at candidateaccommodations@coalitioninc.com. We also consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in line with applicable laws and regulations in each jurisdiction.
To all recruitment agencies: Coalition does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Do not forward resumes to our email alias, employees, or other physical or virtual organization locations. Coalition is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
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