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Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data, and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits, and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

About the Role:

At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future. Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone.

At Optum, as an Actuarial Consultant, your performance, your ideas, and your creative thinking will help us improve the lives of millions. You will join an elite team committed to changing health care through outstanding service and valuable products. You'll use innovative tools including the largest database of health care information in the world. You will perform mathematical analyses and actuarial modelling to identify statistical findings and conclusions. You'll find an accelerated actuarial development path to support you in your on-going education.

As an Actuarial Consultant on our team, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Develop and perform data quality evaluation, manipulation, cleaning, and appropriateness for ad hoc analysis and model fitting.

• Support financial forecasts and supporting ad-hoc data analytics.

• Perform meaningful analytics that support the business to act on items to curb spend.

• Support and develop studies on pricing, utilization, and health care costs for our broad range of clients.

• Develop and prepare monitoring metrics for client products.

• Improve your coding and ML skills, utilising best practices of development, model maintenance, and version control.

• Prepare presentations and other outputs for clients.

• Get exposure to the wider Optum client offerings and the US health insurance market through in-company education and knowledge-sharing events.

All while working on a friendly high-performing team, which places both operational excellence and personal development at the core of what we do.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Letterkenny or Dublin offices and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant quantitative field.

• Proven experience working in a corporate/analytics environment including experience collecting, analysing, and summarizing qualitative/quantitative data.

• Expertise working with formulas, calculations, graphs in at least one software tool (e.g., R, Python, Excel).

• Ability to quickly learn and use computer software tools effectively.

• Passed 1 or more Actuarial exams.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant quantitative field.

• Proven experience working in a corporate/analytics environment including experience collecting, analysing, and summarizing qualitative/quantitative data.

• Expertise working with formulas, calculations, graphs in at least one software tool (e.g., R, Python, Excel).

• Ability to quickly learn and use computer software tools effectively.

• Passed 1 or more Actuarial exams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven hands-on experience working in one or more of R, SAS, SQL, Python, PowerBI, VBA, Databricks, .NET.

• Statistical and predictive modelling experience.

• Experience and/or exposure in dealing with health care claims experience (i.e., understanding of costs, expected claims, diagnosis codes, procedure codes, pharmacy terminology).

• Experience working in a consultancy, actuarial or healthcare field.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, including written and verbal forms of communication.

• Proven analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

• Flexibility to handle changing priorities/requirements/deadlines.

• Passed 2 or more Actuarial exams.

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location, and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalised groups, and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2023 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.