Sr Actuarial Analyst

UnitedHealth Group View all jobs

  • Dublin
  • Training
  • Full-time
  • 25 days ago
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.What makes your Actuarial career greater with UnitedHealth Group? Actuaries are the decision-making engine for our business, that is why we support you from day one. We offer a competitive study program with paid time off to study, expense reimbursement for study materials and pay raises for passing exams. Advancement, access to data, variety of product lines, and rewards for delivering on our mission ensures you will always be challenged to do your best. Our businesses serve the entire spectrum of health care participants: individual consumers and employers, commercial payers and intermediaries, physicians, hospitals, pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers, and more, providing you with a career that is challenging, exciting, and integral in helping to write the history of our organization.Join at an exciting time as we set up a new team in Ireland supporting UHC new business and renewal pricing.Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.Primary Responsibilities:
  • Develop in-depth understanding of core actuarial concepts to develop rate reviews, medical plan pricing, competitive analyses, and more
  • Identify and address data issues and outliers in results
  • Communicate effectively to actuarial and non-actuarial audiences
  • Independently anticipate and complete recurring work responsibilities in an accurate and timely fashion
  • Support all regulatory reports, surveys, audits, and filings
  • Provide timely and complete Peer Review services
  • Maintain proper and sufficient documentation
  • Build relationships within and across regional pricing teams and internal customers such as Products, Sales, Regulatory and UW
  • Take on opportunities to contribute to various projects and work groups to further Regional/National pricing focus areas
  • Be self-aware, compassionate, and genuine in service to all team members
  • Be inclusive, advance diversity; participate in collaborative, engaged, and high-performing teams
  • Be courageous, empowering, and supportive so each person can achieve their goals
  • Actively pursue actuarial qualification through sitting and passing Actuarial exams (IFoA/AAA/SOA)
You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.Required Qualifications:
  • Undergraduate bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university (minimum 2.2 honor's degree)
  • Currently on the Actuarial exam track, having passed 2 or more Actuarial exams
  • Demonstrated solid actuarial experience
  • Proven experience communicating technical information to non-technical audiences
  • Demonstrated intermediate or higher level of proficiency in MS Excel
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Proven education in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or another related technical field from an accredited college/university
  • Proven actuarial internship or internship in related field
  • Demonstrated intermediate or higher level of proficiency with SQL or similar programming language
  • Demonstrated good communication/presentation skills
Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.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: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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