The opportunity

Our client is a community focused federal government agency. They have an exciting opportunity available for multiple EL1 Lead Actuarial Analysts to join the team.

12-month initial contract with opportunity for extension.
Competitive daily rates up to $1100 including superannuation (Dependent on experience - 5 years minimum), with the option to be based out of Richmond or Geelong.

Hybrid working environment, consisting of two days working from home, with the remaining 3 on site each week.

Key duties and responsibilities:

• Providing statistical and actuarial advice.
• Oversight and management ofreporting, analysis and data management activities as required, including regular perfonnance monitoring.
• Designing actuarial, statistical and mathematical models to undertake analytical work that respond to business issues, including actuarial monitoring and analyses, data tabulations, scheme projects and cost benefit analyses.
• Undertaking ad hoc modelling requests and report production.
• Effectively communicating (verbally and in writing) and presenting the outcomes of work undertaken, tailored to context.

Essential criteria

1. Proficiency in R or Python, with preference towards R, including: - Clean/transform/summarise large data sets (e.g. data.table, dplyr) - Functional programming practices - Train/evaluate/infer machine learning models (e.g. xgboost)
2. Proficiency in SQL
3. Some experience with version control systems, i.e. git
4. Experience building statistical or machine learning models
5. Experience leading a team / delegating tasks
6. This position is within the professional job stream and the officer must possess relevant academic qualifications including tertiary qualifications in Actuarial Studies or Mathematics/Statistics, with significant progress towards Associate and/or Fellowship qualifications. Only candidates with FIAA qualification and 7 to 15 years-experience will be considered.

Desirable criteria

1. Experience with agile
2. Package development in R (devtools, roxygen2)
3. Dashboard development in R (shiny)

Please note that you must be an Australian Citizen to be eligible for this role.

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Submit your resume, or for further information please contact [email protected]