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Is it time to raise your game? Are you ready to take on a more advanced role in tracking and effectively managing risk? As a member of our high-performance actuarial team, you'll help support UnitedHealth Group's growth and financial goals and while you help shape our future.

As a Senior Actuarial Analyst, you will be empowered, supported, and encouraged to use your actuarial expertise as part of an analytics team performing healthcare economics analyses. You'll also find an actuarial study program to support you in your continuing post-graduate education and certification.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

Analyze detailed data sets and interpret key drivers of healthcare trends

Conduct studies to evaluate emerging healthcare utilization and cost patterns and identify savings opportunities

Provide management with actuarially informed findings and conclusions

Assist in peer review of analyses completed by actuarial analysts

Mentor and supervise actuarial analysts in the technical aspects of actuarial projects

Are you ready to set the pace as an expert problem solver? You will be challenged with ensuring data makes sense and knowing when to dig deeper. You will also be tasked with communicating the results of your work in a meaningful way to broad audiences, including our valuable clients.

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

• Must be on the Actuarial exam track, having passed 2+ Actuarial exams

• 2+ years of experience working in a corporate environment including experience collecting, analyzing and summarizing qualitative/quantitative data

• Proficiency in MS Excel for building actuarial models and summarized revenue and claims reports

Preferred Qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience in SQL and/or SAS with multidimensional databases

• Experience working in finance or the healthcare industry

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Washington, or Washington, D.C. Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $70,200 to $137,800 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.