Life/Health Actuaries

4 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Mercor Full time

Role Overview Mercor is collaborating with a global insurance and financial services client to support actuarial modeling processes via high-quality data preparation. We are seeking actuarial professionals with experience in seriatim data extraction, cleansing, and validation from life insurance policy administration systems. This opportunity centers around ensuring reliable, audit-ready datasets for valuation, modeling, and financial reporting workflows. This is a short-term, project-based opportunity with high autonomy and clearly scoped deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

  • Extract policy-level data for a given valuation date from systems such as FAST, OIPA, or Sapiens.

  • Validate record counts against control totals and identify missing or inconsistent fields.

  • Reconcile in-force movements between periods, including new issues and terminations.

  • Identify and flag policies with anomalous data for manual review.

  • Map product codes to actuarial model inputs and document data assumptions.

  • Deliver a clean, formatted dataset suitable for actuarial projection software.

Ideal Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in actuarial data processing or valuation support.

  • Familiarity with life insurance policy administration systems (e.g., OIPA, FAST, LIFE/400).

  • Proficiency with Excel and data quality tools; basic scripting knowledge (SQL, Python) is a plus.

  • Strong attention to detail and understanding of actuarial data structures.

  • Ability to clearly document data anomalies and reconciliation logic.

More About the Opportunity

  • Remote and asynchronous — control your own work schedule

  • Expected commitment: min 30 hours/week

  • Project duration: ~6 weeks

Compensation & Contract Terms

  • $75–100/hour

  • Independent contractor arrangement

  • Paid weekly via Stripe Connect

Application Process

  • Submit your resume followed by domain expertise interview and short form

About Mercor

  • Mercor is a talent marketplace that connects top experts with leading AI labs and research organizations.

  • Our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

  • Thousands of professionals across domains like law, creatives, engineering, and research have joined Mercor to work on frontier projects shaping the next era of AI.

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