Statistical Modeler- Claims Analytics Job in Walnut Creek, California US

Statistical Modeler / Insurance Analyst II - Claims Analytics

A Statistical Modeler is part of the Insurance Analytics team that supports AAA NCNU insurance's quest for performance improvement and business intelligence. The Insurance Analytics team supports a wide range of internal customers including Claims, Insurance Product Management, Actuarial, Insurance Product Operations, Underwriting, and Membership. This particular position focuses on Claims Analytics.

A Statistical Modeler will develop metrics, reports and studies to monitor and recommend improvements to Claims performance and perform quantitative analysis in business improvement cycles including: problem identification, issue exploration, data and process discovery, analytical modeling, predictive power validation, and implementation transition to operations and IT.

Main Responsibilities:

- Work with closely Claims management and other stakeholders to gain deep understanding of business.

- Design reports and studies on Claims operations.

- Conduct research on data integrity.

- Make recommendations for systems development and determine potential solutions related to quantitative data on identified requirements.

- Participate in cross-functional projects to improve enterprise performance.

- Build the hypothesis, identify research data attributes and determine approach to solve analytical problems related to insurance

- Understand data lineage rules among various policy and claims systems

- Extract, clean and prepare insurance data for research projects

- Identify and apply statistical models to test correlations with insurance business

- Build complex SAS programs for running statistical tests on data and for understanding correlation of various attributes

- Compare and weigh numerical model outputs (preferably from SAS or Emblem) and identify best choice models

- Make recommendations for procedural improvements supported by analytical findings.

- Prepare recommendations and findings for business clients.

- Build presentations for targeted audiences, from supervisor to executive level staff.

- Establish timelines to deliver recommendations/solutions and deliver on or before deadlines.

This position is open, available and will provide exam support for actuarial analysts.

Knowledge, Skills Abilities

Required:

- BA/BS or higher degree in mathematics, statistics, or computer science or equivalent experience. MA/MS is strongly preferred

- Extensive knowledge of Property and Casualty Insurance products and services.

- Ability to perform rigorous analysis to complex data to identify key themes

- Knowledge of principles, processes and tools used for analyzing and manipulating large sets of data.

- Proven ability to effectively diagnose problems, identify core issues, see critical connections and ramifications, and draw conclusions.

- Must be comfortable making recommendations laterally and vertically

- Ability to communicate in concise and clear terms.

- Exemplary interpersonal skills.

- Advanced skills in Excel, SAS, Access, Cognos, Emblem or SQL

Preferred but not required:

- 4-6 years of reporting and analysis of Property and Casualty insurance data.

- 4-6 years of experience in data mining, relational database design and development, or object oriented programming principles

- Knowledge of Property and Casualty Claims operations.

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