Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. USAA is dedicated to empowering its members to achieve financial security through competitive products and exceptional service. The Pricing Analyst Lead will support the actuarial team by leveraging pricing knowledge to drive innovation and lead complex projects, while collaborating with business partners to achieve strategic goals.
Responsibilities
- Utilize actuarial tools and modeling software for pricing, valuation, and/or risk management
- Oversee system testing, validation, pricing research and data acquisition activities. Drives the team to produce integral insights to support strategic decisions
- Lead multiple special pricing projects simultaneously, such as the development of new methodologies or reporting tools to impact strategic initiatives
- Provide thought and/or technical expertise on complex pricing topics and influences key stakeholders on business decisions
- Assemble key participants and guides cross-functional teams in the development and implementation of solutions
- Champion and drive the strategic adoption and integration of cutting-edge analytical tools and methodologies to influence foundational practices and processes
- Test pricing assumptions and the appropriate premiums, interest margins, reserves, and cash values for new products. May provide oversight to pricing and/or loss valuation reviews
- Develop written communication and presentations that effectively convey data-driven solutions to broad audiences including cross-functional executive leadership
- Lead development of training for team members on the mechanics of relevant methodologies
- Serve as a mentor to team members and as a resource on escalated issues
- Lead risk assessments and recommend strategic changes to policies and procedures by staying current on industry trends and emerging risks
- Ensure risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures
Skills
- Bachelor's degree; OR 4 years of relevant education and/or experience
- 8 years of finance, insurance, or other relevant analytic experience
- 4 years of direct pricing experience
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office tools to include Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Demonstrated expert knowledge of relevant data analysis and extraction tools and experience aggregating and analyzing complex datasets to solve problems
- Expert knowledge of relevant industry data sources
- Strong communication skills with demonstrated experience presenting complex solutions and analysis to a broad audience of key stakeholders including executive leadership
- Subject matter expert knowledge of programming languages or modeling software packages (Python, SQL, R, SAS, etc.)
- Hands-on experience with Earnix (pricing versions, data tables, modeling versions, UDAs/custom parameters)
- Demonstrated ability to manage multi-stakeholder delivery in a pricing modernization or platform migration context
- Experience bridging technical Earnix/analytical work with business and IT stakeholders
- Familiarity with auto insurance pricing processes and pricing tool governance
- Experience mentoring or leading small technical teams through complex, ambiguous projects
- US military experience through military service or a military spouse/domestic partner
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
- 401(k)
- Pension
- Life insurance
- Parental benefits
- Adoption assistance
- Paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours
- Various wellness programs
- Career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals
- Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors
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