Boston, MA

Are you looking for a place that truly values and accepts differences of perspectives and understands that winning together builds a stronger organization?

Are you looking for an organization that is a powerful platform driven by exceptional people, and one where you can be recognized and rewarded for individual excellence in a team framework?

Are you looking for the opportunity to start building meaningful, professional relationships with people who, like you, have a high level of capabilities and strong character, who care about each other, their customers, and communities?

Want to be part of the team building the finest property, casualty and specialty lines insurance company in the world?

If so, then our Associate Cohort program is for you!

Job Opportunity: 

Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has an exciting opportunity for an Associate Data Analyst to join our globally focused Actuarial Reporting Team.

The Associate Data Analyst will engage in a wide variety of projects central to enhancing BHSI’s analytics and reporting capabilities within the global 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.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Utilize SQL to identify, extract, interpret, and analyze data for reporting.
• 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.
• Support and enhance the central proprietary database by identifying and integrating data elements necessary to support reporting initiatives.    
• Perform data validations and reconciliations between various sources and reports with precision and attention to detail to ensure deliverables are accurate and effective.
• Assist in the integration of various data sources to a central repository through sound testing, documentation, and execution of strategy.
• Provide technical support to actuaries and underwriters using the combination of tools needed to best complete each task (e.g. SQL, Excel, VBA).  

Education, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as independently when needed.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong customer service skills preferably from past job or volunteer experience.
• Intellectual curiosity and a passion for analyzing large volumes of data to generate insights.
• Experience with MS Office Applications, especially Excel.
• Strong understanding of SQL.
• Experience with business visualization software (Tableau, PowerBI) preferred.
• Experience with Azure preferred.
• All candidates must have permanent work authorization in the United States.

Who are we? 

A strategic and trusted insurance partner, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI), provides a broad range of commercial property, casualty and specialty insurance coverages and outstanding service to customers and brokers around the world. Part of Berkshire Hathaway’s insurance operations, we bring our solutions to market with our stellar brand name, top-rated balance sheet and the expertise of our global team of professionals, who exude excellent capabilities and strong character.

We are a values-based organization where respect, integrity, excellence, collaboration, and passion define who we are and how we do business. We value diversity of backgrounds, experience and perspectives and strive to foster an inclusive environment that enables all our team members to bring their best selves to work. We are one team committed to building a culture where every teammate has the opportunity to contribute and be recognized.

Learn more about our unique culture and history.

BHSI Offers Associates:

• The opportunity to build a broad knowledge of the insurance industry through instructor-led training classes.
• Mentorship, career development and learning opportunities as you engage with senior management.
• A competitive package and exciting growth opportunities with a growing global organization.
• A liberating, fast-paced culture, centered on always doing the right thing for our customers, teammates and our business.
• A purposely non-bureaucratic organization that embraces simplicity over complexity, encourages innovation, and emphasizes individual excellence in a team framework.

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