EL1 Lead Actuary

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 organisations

  Please 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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  Submit your resume, or for further information please contact Jarrodd.edwards@talentinternational.com

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