EL1 Lead Actuary

  • Australia
  • Melbourne
  • Contract
  • AU$750 - AU$1100 per day

The opportunity

Our client is a community focused federal government agency. They have an exciting opportunity available for multiple EL1 Lead Actuarial Analysts to join the team.

12-month initial contract with opportunity for extension.
Competitive daily rates up to $1100 including superannuation (Dependent on experience – 5 years minimum), with the option to be based out of Richmond or Geelong.

Hybrid working environment, consisting of two days working from home, with the remaining 3 on site each week.

Key duties and responsibilities:

  • Providing statistical and actuarial advice.
  • Oversight and management ofreporting, analysis and data management activities as required, including regular perfonnance 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

  1. 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 (e.g. xgboost)
  2. Proficiency in SQL
  3. Some experience with version control systems, i.e. git
  4. Experience building statistical or machine learning models
  5. Experience leading a team / delegating tasks
  6. This position is within the professional job stream and the officer must possess relevant academic qualifications including tertiary qualifications in Actuarial Studies or Mathematics/Statistics, with significant progress towards Associate and/or Fellowship qualifications. Only candidates with FIAA qualification and 7 to 15 years-experience will be considered.

Desirable criteria

  1. Experience with agile
  2. Package development in R (devtools, roxygen2)
  3. Dashboard development in R (shiny)

Please note that you must be an Australian Citizen to be eligible for this role.

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