Manager, Actuary, Personal Lines Homeowners Topline Planning and Monitoring

The Home Planning & Monitoring team within USRM Risk & Analytics is seeking an Actuarial Manager to lead the Topline Analytics team! Our team is responsible for crafting a holistic and compelling opinion of the loss ratio and top-line as part of the quarterly Plan, as well as analyzing, synthesizing, monitoring, and communicating emerging trends to a broad group of stakeholders.

In this highly visible role, you will lead a team of talented analysts to conduct topline analytics, deep dives, and work closely with key stakeholders throughout the organization on impactful analyses. You and team will collaborate with multiple teams and functional areas across the organization in the planning-monitoring system, and report findings and recommendations to senior management.

**This position may have in-office requirements dependent on candidate location.**

Responsibilities include:

• Lead in-depth analyses to deliver key topline insights on policy volume and premium level drivers.  
• Provide recommendations to senior management and articulate analytical reasonings, considerations, and risk factors.
• Monitor, investigate, and communicate drivers of results, including plan, variance-to-plan, and trends. Contribute to driving informed opinions on quarterly Plan reforecasts.
• Engage with the planning systems and processes to support well-informed, efficient, and organized planning rounds.
• Lead with purpose and vision; manage and direct analysts and provide coaching and mentoring to analysts on the team and within the department.
• Continuously assess the effectiveness of the tools, reports, and processes, and identify review opportunities.
• Establish relationships and collaborate with cross-functional areas to ensure we are appropriately interpreting, collecting, and generating sound and consistent perspectives.
• Innovate better ways to depict and explain plan changes and monitoring insights.

Ideal candidate will have: 

• Strong analytical experience in SAS, Excel. 
• Passion for organization and strong attention to detail, while also able to see the larger picture. 
• Ability to build strong cross-functional relationships. 
• Prior direct leadership experience, leading a team of three.