Director, Actuarial Data Analytics

The role will focus on building and managing a team responsible for the quality, development, management, and compliance of all data within Life and Annuity (i.e., Underwriting, Product, Actuarial, Claims). This role will work with leadership to establish the data strategy and data policies to ensure the Data Analysts within are providing accurate and high-quality data in a timely manner. The Director, Life and Annuity Data Analytics, is a positive and innovative person with the goal to encourage, empower, and develop the Data Analysts to think of the “big picture” and how to get there.

What You’ll Do:

• Provides clarity of the vision, strategy, growth, and development for Data Analytics among all areas within Life and Annuity financial operations.
• Creates the appropriate documentation that allows stakeholder (i.e., executive management) to clearly understand the strategy, vision, growth, and development for our data governance within Life and Anniuty financial operations.
• Leads team to build and implement dashboards (e.g., PowerBI), reports, and spreadsheets utilized by all areas.
• Leads discussions with stakeholders from various business areas to translate their data needs and goals by understanding data structures, determining data definitions, gathering data requirements, analyzing business processes, and evaluating the accuracy of data elements and metrics.
• Monitors projects that assist in translating findings into easy-to-understand visuals and written summaries for non-technical audiences to ensure requirements and deadlines are met.
• Validates queries, reports, and dashboards developed by the Data Analytics teams for accuracy and quality.
• Monitors the data produced to ensure it remains secure, respecting corporate privacy and security procedures.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Implements and oversees trainings on skills, techniques, and data sources the less experienced data analysts to ensure we are with used within Life and Annuity financial operations.
• Reviews policies, procedures, and process created or updated by the Data Analytics teams.
• Performs quality assurance checks to validate for completeness and accuracy of data and/or deliverables for release.
• Creates a culture of accountability among management team in order to ensure direct reports are meeting applicable deadlines and specifications of projects and analyzes.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree.
• 10 to 12 years of experience.
• Two to five years of supervisory/management experience.
• Additional Qualifications: Ability to initiate, plan, implement or evaluate programs. Must have strong communication and people skills. Expert level skills with Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Excel, Access) Expert in data manipulation and visualization tools (i.e., PowerBI, Tableau) using graphs, charts, map features.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• For Actuarial and Statistical roles, intermediate level skills using Python and/or Visual Studio.net.
• Experience creating trend analysis dashboards.

American National offers eligible employees and their families medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Employees also receive annually a bank of paid time off and paid holidays. We aspire to see people for what they bring to our corporate culture by supporting an inclusive work environment, including an emphasis on a healthy work-life balance, development opportunities, and a casual dress code.

American National is an established, stable, and successful multi-line insurance corporation that has provided financial strength and a sense of security to employees, customers and business partners since 1905. With focus on our organization’s values and cultural richness: Financial Strength, Integrity, Respect, Service and Teamwork (FIRST) and Agility, Collaboration, and Engagement (ACE) we continue to pursue our vision to be a leading provider of financial products and services for current and future generations.