Senior Actuarial Associate

Ryan Specialty • Nashville, TN

3d

About The Position

As a Sr. Actuarial Associate at Velocity Risk, you’ll be a lead individual contributor driving pricing and predictive modeling for our property portfolio. You’ll own key models and analyses (GLMs, GAMs, GBMs), help upgrade and maintain raters for underwriters, and contribute to reserving and loss development work. You’ll also play a light leadership role, mentoring junior analysts and helping set best practices for the team. What will your job entail?

Requirements

• 4–8 years of P&C actuarial experience, with a strong focus on pricing and/or predictive modeling.
• Demonstrated experience leading pricing projects or model builds as a primary owner.
• Hands-on experience with GLM-based pricing models; exposure to GAMs and GBMs strongly preferred.
• Some exposure to reserving and loss development and interest in becoming more well-rounded.
• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or related quantitative field.
• ACAS required .
• Strong statistical and modeling skills, including GLMs and familiarity with GAMs/GBMs.
• Proficiency in Python or R , plus solid SQL and Excel skills.
• Comfortable working with large, complex datasets and building clean, repeatable workflows.
• Solid understanding of P&C insurance fundamentals, especially pricing and loss behavior.
• Able to explain technical work clearly to non-technical partners and provide constructive feedback to junior team members.
• Organized, proactive, and able to manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

• Prior informal leadership experience (mentoring, peer review, or project lead) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead pricing analyses for assigned segments, including indications, segmentation, and portfolio profitability reviews.
• Design, build, and maintain predictive models (GLMs, GAMs, GBMs) to improve pricing sophistication and risk selection.
• Own portions of the rater upgrade and maintenance process, ensuring tools are accurate, efficient, and user-friendly for underwriters.
• Translate model results into rating factors, implementation specs, and filing-ready documentation.
• Contribute to reserving and loss development work (triangles, LDFs, IBNR) and help connect pricing and loss experience.
• Monitor actual vs. expected performance and model stability; recommend refinements to rating plans and models.
• Provide light mentoring to junior analysts on methods, coding standards, and data hygiene; review their work as needed.
• Help improve actuarial processes, automation, and best practices across pricing and reserving workflows.

Benefits

• Ryan Specialty seeks to offer our employees a comprehensive and best-in-class benefits package that helps them — and their family members — achieve their physical, financial, and emotional well-being goals.
• In addition to paid time off for company holidays, vacation, sick and personal days, Ryan offers paid parental leave, mental health services and more.
• For additional information on Ryan Specialty Total Rewards, visit our website https://benefits.ryansg.com/.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees