Company Details

From middle market to Fortune 500 companies, Berkley Custom's team is committed to providing excellent service and a consistent approach to meet the needs of their brokers and their customers, bringing specific expertise in excess casualty as well as a variety of targeted primary and excess programs.

They seek to outperform competitors with focus and deep understanding of their client's priorities and by developing creative risk solutions to meet their long-term needs. Their key differentiators include the following:

EXCLUSIVE PARTNERSHIPS - Berkley Custom works exclusively the wholesale brokerage community as well as their program partners, and continually builds upon long established relationships with a passion for superior service for their appointed producers.

INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS - Berkley Custom attracts and retains professionals with significant experience in their field, many with over 25 years in the business. Their culture values and promotes deep industry knowledge, integrity, excellence, and respect.

LONG-TERM APPROACH TO ACCOUNTS - Berkley Custom continually seeks partners for the long term who share their values and risk management discipline.

Long-term relationships have been their management's trademark in over 30 years of serving customers in the E&S and Program marketplace. Their team is dedicated to serving the varied casualty exposure needs of their brokers and their customers. By truly understanding risk exposures in a constantly changing global environment, they can better work with you to keep risk placement recommendations current and responsive.

Responsibilities

The Actuarial Data Analyst will engage in a wide variety of projects central to enhancing Berkley Custom analytics and reporting capabilities within the actuarial team. The ideal individual will have both the technical abilities to query and analyze data as well as the collaborative qualities to work with actuaries across various data related initiatives. Someone with a passion for problem solving with data and a desire to constantly learn and apply new skills will be successful in this role.
• Develop queries and reports for actuarial department and executive team as requested.
• Develop and automate recurring and ad hoc reports for a multitude of audiences across all products, regions, and management to support business needs and underwriting results
• Perform data validations and reconciliations between various sources and reports with precision and attention to detail to ensure deliverables are accurate and effective
• Prepare reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information on key metrics specific to functional area(s)
• Strong knowledge of internal data systems in order to be a relied upon resource for data-driven changes or problems across the organization.
• Help manage transition from legacy systems into more efficient systems and solutions.
• Identify and analyze information needs and flow for design, development, and maintenance.
• Construct reports within Microsoft Excel and Power BI that aid Underwriting in making correct strategic decisions in reaching profitability and growth goals.
• Develop and maintain Financial Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting visuals.
• Analyzes complex business problems and issues using data from internal and external sources to provide insight to analysts and decision makers.

Qualifications
• 2+ years of experience in a data-related role with working knowledge of information systems.
• Required: Strong knowledge of MS Office tools (Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint).
• Required: Strong knowledge of VBA.
• Required: Strong knowledge of SQL.
• Preferred: intermediate knowledge of Power BI.
• Preferred: knowledge of the insurance industry and IT systems.
• Preferred: intermediate knowledge of R and Python.
• Ability to adapt.
• Strong problem solving and communication skills.
• Strong organization skills and ability to multitask and prioritize multiple tasks at once.
• Ability to work outside normal work schedule to fulfill responsibilities.
• Ability to travel on occasional basis.
• The Company is an equal employment opportunity employer.

Education Requirement
• Bachelor's degree in a related field (mathematics, business, finance, data science/information technology).