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Data Scientist

Employer
Star Actuarial Futures
Location
London
Salary
up to £40k + benefits
Closing date
24 May 2019
Reference
Star5627

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Sector
General insurance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Experience/Function
Graduate/post-graduate, Other

Job Details

Seeking a talented Data Scientist to work within the technical pricing team. You will use your skills to develop and apply data science, machine learning and other statistical techniques to draw insights on insurance products to shape the strategic direction of data usage within the business.

Skills we are looking for include:

  • Experience of building predictive models using a wide variety of tools and techniques (e.g. linear or logistic regression, gradient boosted machines, random forest, regularisation, neural networks)
  • Strong academic background, e.g. expect a Masters Degree or Doctorate in computer science, engineering, physics, actuarial science, statistics or maths based equivalent
  • Advanced data manipulation or experience of managing large-scale data sets
  • Advanced experience of commercial data science or analytics software (e.g. Python, R, SAS/WPS,  MATLAB  etc.)

Please get in touch for more information on this role.

Please note that this role does not support the actuarial exams. Actuarial students with the above skills who have now stopped the exams may be suitable. 

Company

We are award-winning experts in actuarial recruitment. We are actuaries and recruitment specialists based in the UK with a global reach. We offer market-leading career advice and recruitment solutions that are tailored to your needs. 

Our honest approach to recruitment and our market expertise have delivered great results within the actuarial market and we are proud to work with a wide range of leading actuarial employers and candidates.

We provide our clients with the talent they need to realise their business strategy and to date have helped over 200 actuarial employers fill their vacancies. We want to work closely with our clients and our greatest success story to date is having made over 50 placements with several clients.

We are experienced in filling vacancies from graduate to Chief Actuary level with permanent packages ranging from £20,000 p.a. to over £300,000 p.a. Our clients include Asset Managers, Insurers, Mutuals, Consultancies, Banks, Brokers and Syndicates.

Our consultants are based throughout the UK, recruit for permanent and interim positions in all sectors of the actuarial market in the UK and overseas and offer a consultancy service on a contingency, retained or search basis.

We continually strive to be the best in the market and with that in mind we only employ high quality recruitment consultants or actuaries directly from industry. Our consultants have over 85 years' experience in technical actuarial roles across insurance, pensions, investment and healthcare. As a result, our understanding of the actuarial market and of actuarial vacancies is based on first-hand experience, industry leading connections and up-to-date market knowledge.

Read more about us and search our jobs at www.staractuarial.com

 

Company info
Website
Telephone
+442033931880
Location
6 London Street
New London House
London
London
EC3R 7LP
GB

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