Actuarial Analyst

Summary

Join Virta Health's Advanced Analytics & AI team as an Actuarial Analyst and contribute to a mission-driven healthcare technology company. This role blends traditional actuarial work with data science, impacting high-stakes business decisions. Work remotely and collaborate with various teams, translating analyses into actionable insights. Your work will directly improve people's lives. The position involves quantifying program impact, delivering customer reporting, enhancing the analytics stack, co-engineering predictive models, and driving cross-functional impact. Within 90 days, you will learn Virta's product offerings, reporting templates, and modeling assumptions, and begin presenting findings to stakeholders and clients.

Requirements

• Quantitative/Analytical skills including comfort with data
• Technical skills: 2+ years of analytical experience with extensive use of Excel (bonus: SQL, Python)
• Time management and being able to balance multiple priorities
• Comfort explaining and presenting technical solutions to nontechnical stakeholders
• Completion of 4+ preliminary actuarial exams and pursuing ASA/ACAS designation
• Bachelor’s degree

Responsibilities

• Quantify program impact - Perform actuarial and claims analyses that quantify program value and uncover new growth opportunities for both clients and product teams
• Own customer reporting - Deliver standardized financial and clinical outcome reporting for our customers, ensuring data accuracy and timely delivery
• Elevate our analytics stack - Automate workflows, enhance documentation, and champion best practices across Google Sheets/Excel, Looker, BigQuery, and dbt
• Co-engineer predictive models - Collaborate daily with senior actuary and data scientists to build, validate, and iterate financial models that power strategic decisions
• Drive cross-functional impact - Partner with Commercial and the broader Advanced Analytics & AI team on projects that streamline processes and scale insights
• Be the analytics “help desk” - Handle incoming stakeholder and client inquiries regarding data and models
• Step up as a client-facing SME - Within 6 months, join customer calls to present findings and answer actuarial and analytics questions, extending your influence beyond internal teams
• Learn about Virta Health’s different product offerings and the associated performance guarantees
• Deep-dive into existing reporting templates and data pipelines
• Shadow the Staff Actuary to understand modeling assumptions
• Own production of certain standardized customer reports
• Lead a claims analysis end-to-end, presenting findings to internal stakeholders
• Document learnings and add to team knowledge base
• Begin shadowing client calls to prepare for external-facing responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced programming skills (SQL / Python / etc.)
• Experience working with standard healthcare data formats (e.g., medical/pharmacy claims, eligibility files)
• Experience in building BI dashboards using tools such as Looker or Tableau

Benefits

Work from anywhere and enjoy remote-first freedom to make an industry-wide impact from anywhere, with virtually no required travel