UnitedHealth Group - Assistant Manager - Actuarial & Underwriting

Discipline - Actuarial

Industry - Actuarial Services

Job Description - About UHG :

United Health Group is a leading health care company serving more than 85 million people worldwide. The organization is ranked 17 among Fortune 500 companies with annual revenue of ~130 BN $ for 2012-13. UHG serves its customers through two different platforms United Health Care (UHC) and Optum. UHC is responsible for providing healthcare coverage and benefits services, while Optum provides information and technology enabled health services.

India operations of UHG are aligned to Optum. The Advanced Research & Analytics (ARA) team, part of Optum, is involved in developing broad-based and targeted analytics solutions across different verticals for all lines of business.

Roles and Responsibilities :

- Work closely with Actuarial analysts and Rating analysts as lead on all the regular Actuarial & Underwriting engagements

- As part of HCE competency center actively participate in research projects along with various HCE initiatives from- ideation, frame work design to development & implementation

- Hands on experience in data analytics, using SAS, to guide and actively participate in data preparation and analysis

- Ensure high sense of project ownership

- Ensure timely and proper communication to Business Partners and Leaders

- Identify opportunity areas within Actuarial and Underwriting teams for improving existing analytical solutions or suggesting new solutions

- Work with the HCE & Actuarial business teams to operationalize various analytics initiatives & solutions

- Engage in communications with business partners for all important functions associated with the new engagements and, projects including data understanding, solution design etc.

- Team management: Includes but is not limited to utilization management, expectation setting, issue resolution, information flow, mentoring, team bonding activities etc.

- Participate in client meetings as SME and identify upcoming changes in healthcare environment

No. of Openings - 1

Qualification - Qualifications :

- 5+ years of experience in Actuarial industry (preferably health insurance)

- Education Level: Post-Graduation in Actuarial Science / Statistics / Mathematics / Economics / Finance

- Actuarial qualification: Minimum 5 Core technical papers (Preferably CT1,CT3,CT4,CT5 & CT6)

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

- Excellent problem solving abilities

- Ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment while demonstrating good level of maturity

- Excellent interpersonal and team skills

- Professional, service oriented, proactive and flexible

- Good knowledge of MS Office

- Hands on experience of analytics tools such as SAS/R/SQL is preferred (not mandatory)

- Knowledge of US Health Insurance industry is preferred

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