About this role
Position Summary:
The Actuary will be a key individual contributor within the Actuarial Services department, responsible for analytical leadership across pricing, reserving, forecasting, reporting, and provider network evaluation. This role is designed for an experienced actuarial professional (ideally ASA or near‑ASA) with strong technical skills, creativity, and the potential to assume future leadership responsibilities.
Location:
Candidates located more than 1 hour outside of our corporate office in Roanoke, VA and residing in the following states may be considered for remote work: FL, GA, ID, MD, NC, NE, SC, TN, VA, WI, WV
Essential Functions:
- Pricing & Underwriting Support
- Develop, maintain, and refine pricing models for dental and vision products.
- Support experience analyses, trend studies, rating structures, and profitability assessments.
- Support rate filings and coordinate with compliance.
- Reserving, Forecasting & Financial Analysis
- Contribute to monthly IBNR estimation and reserve validation.
- Support development of financial forecasts and long‑range projections.
- Provider Network Analysis
- Evaluate provider network performance, fee schedules, discounts, and competitiveness.
- Data, Technology & Innovation
- Query multiple database environments using SQL.
- Support design/testing of DDVA’s actuarial data warehouse.
- Build dashboards and automated reports using Power BI.
- Use Python/R for modeling and automation.
- Use LLMs to enhance productivity and innovation.
- Collaboration, Communication & Leadership Potential
- Partner with Underwriting, IT, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Network teams.
- Communicate complex findings clearly for technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Mentor early‑career staff and support skill development across the team.
- Provide cross‑training and knowledge transfer to ensure workflow continuity.
- Prior experience mentoring, onboarding, or leading staff is highly desirable.
Qualifications/Education/Experience:
- Required
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field.
- 4-7 years actuarial or analytical experience.
- ASA or near‑ASA.
- Strong skills in Excel and SQL.
- Preferred
- Dental/vision experience.
- Experience with Python/R, Power BI/Tableau/Qlik.
- Familiarity with rate filings and ACA requirements.
- Skills & Attributes
- Intellectual curiosity and appetite for learning.
- Strong communication and project management.
- Creativity and collaborative mindset.
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; balance; stoop; talk or hear. Use of hands is required for such technological devices such as a computer, telephone and others. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. The employee will be required to travel (sometimes long distances) to attend required meetings.
- Work environment: The work is limited to the office environment with occasional trips to other office facilities or locations necessitating walking outdoors or driving. The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal.
Other facts
About DELTA DENTAL OF VIRGINIA
Delta Dental of Virginia is a dynamic, mission-driven company that prides itself on fulfilling our vision: More smiles and healthier people.
We are passionate about good oral health and for more than 50 years, we have been working to improve the oral health of Virginians by providing flexible, affordable dental benefit plans and building the largest network of participating oral health providers in the state.
Delta Dental of Virginia is a member company of the Delta Dental Plans Association, the nation’s largest, most experienced dental benefits carrier, providing dental coverage to more than 78 million people in more than 146,000 groups across the nation. Through this association, Delta Dental of Virginia subscribers have access to the most extensive network of oral health care providers in the country.
We are just as passionate about our team as we are our members and clients. We value our team members and offer a modern work environment with onsite health and fitness centers, competitive pay, a top of the line benefits program, and opportunities for professional growth and advancement.
While we’re proud of the pay and benefits we offer, we also know that a great job is defined by more than that. We embrace a set of values that guide how we approach our work, our clients, and each other:
Believe - We believe everyone deserves a healthy smile.
Learn - We pursue knowledge and embrace new ideas.
Solve - We go beyond identifying problems to seek solutions.
Respect - We support each other and embrace teamwork.
Grow - We encourage each other to take on new responsibilities and celebrate our wins.
If those values align with yours, we want to hear from you! Click the See Jobs button above to explore our openings.
What you'll do
- The Associate Actuary will lead analytical efforts in pricing, reserving, forecasting, reporting, and provider network evaluation. This role involves developing pricing models, contributing to financial forecasts, and evaluating provider network performance.
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