Life/Health Actuaries

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

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