Actuarial Analyst

About CLARA Analytics

CLARA Analytics is the leading AI as a service (AIaaS) provider that improves casualty claims outcomes for commercial insurance carriers and self-insured organizations. The company’s product suite for workers comp, commercial auto and general liability insurance claims applies image recognition, natural language processing, and other AI-based techniques to unlock insights from medical notes, bills and other documents surrounding a claim. CLARA’s customers include companies from the top 25 global insurance carriers to large third-party administrators and self-insured organizations. Founded in 2017, CLARA Analytics is headquartered in California’s Silicon Valley. For more information, visit www.claraanalytics.com.

The Role

We are in search of an Actuarial Analyst to join our Analytics team in the Product department. In this role, you'll be responsible for performing analysis related to client work, such as reviewing data in preparation for analysis, checking & validating data for errors and consistency, drafting reports, and maintaining documentation. In addition to the tactical, you'll be given opportunities to present your findings to product, technical and client facing peers, executive leads, and even clients. Work is shared across the function, giving everyone the opportunity to build their skills and showcase their abilities, and take on increasing responsibilities over time.

What You'll Do

• Master CLARA's data ecosystem to proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve data quality issues for reporting and analytics tools.
• Perform data analysis and extract insights from vast, complex data sources to identify trends, patterns, and opportunities for improvement.
• Build, maintain, and enhance standardized customer reporting that empowers clients to fully leverage CLARA’s product suite.
• Design and develop visually appealing and user-friendly dashboards, reports, and visualizations on an ad hoc or recurring basis.
• Collaborate with Product Management, Data Science, and Data Engineering to deploy relevant analytics methods & visualizations.

What We’re Looking For

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM or quantitative major (Actuarial Science, CS, Data Science, Math, Stats, Finance, Economics, etc.) or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree.
• At least 2–3 years of Actuary experience in Property-Casualty (P&C) insurance.
• A strong foundational understanding of how P&C insurance works, relevant core metrics, and how to analyze and discuss P&C trends.
• Highly proficient in SQL with proven experience navigating messy, complex databases to extrapolate, clean, and analyze key data.
• Experience with BI tools and knowledge of data and visualization best practices.
• Superb attention to detail and technical accuracy.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, with the ability to jump into messy, undocumented data sources to explore, validate, and leverage new insights.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to express or explain complicated technical concepts, to a variety of audiences.

Preferred

• Start-up and/or insurtech experience.
• Experience with or working knowledge of AI tools, specifically Claude.
• Experience or familiarity with Sigma Computing.
• Domain knowledge of Workers Comp, General Liability, and/or Auto.

What We Offer

• The opportunity to make a real impact on a growing company.
• Collaborative and supportive work environment.
• Competitive compensation package.
• • Salary + Bonus
  • Benefits: generously subsidized health insurance, free ancillary benefits (life, disability, etc.), flexible/unlimited PTO, fully remote, 401k with company match
• Be a part of a team that is passionate about what we do!