Lead Actuarial Analyst

Lead Actuarial Analyst

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Who We Are
 
Each year, 2 billion people across the world are limited by physical pain. By helping people live without pain, they are free to do the things they love most with the people they love—and never miss a moment. This is what we do. We create and design new technologies to solve one of the biggest problems in healthcare: taking care of our Physical Health. Sword Health is the world’s fastest growing digital musculoskeletal (MSK) care provider on a bold mission to free two billion people from acute, chronic, and post-surgical physical pain . Our customers include some of the most progressive Fortune 100 and 500 companies, as well as over 160+ other established businesses across the world.       
 
The Sword program allows members to complete a personalized physical therapy program from the comfort of home, with continued support and supervision from one of our talented Sword specialists. Sword’s personalized care is more effective than traditional standards of care, and has proven to deliver best-in-class clinical results. Since breaking into the market less than two years ago, Sword has worked with insurers, health systems, and employers in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia to make high quality musculoskeletal care accessible to everyone. 
 
This is an opportunity to join Sword during a time of hyper growth and expansion. After our recent $2bn valuation, we’re excited to continue accelerating our impact by scaling with high caliber people with passion, commitment and energy to create and deliver technologies, services and products that drive human progress forward.   
 
We welcome you to join our mission, to make a difference on a grand scale and play a pivotal role with a global team at Sword– working alongside great people pioneering novel products and cutting edge technologies.  

Sword Health is looking for an experienced Lead Actuarial Analyst  to join our Customer Insights team. As one of the early members of the team, you will play an essential role in helping to define, measure, and enhance our value story through analysis of medical and pharmacy claims data. The ideal fit will be an  individual that is analytical, detail-oriented, resourceful, and strategic, with a passion for using data to help deliver better health care to those who need it most.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Analyze client medical and pharmacy claims data to calculate return on investment from Sword Health’s solution
• Perform analyses and actuarial modeling on cost, utilization, and clinical outcomes data, providing statistical findings and conclusions to internal and external stakeholders
• Profile new datasets and partner with IT to build an industry leading data model
• Lead presentations and actuarial discussions with customers, consultants and other external audiences to highlight Sword’s performance
• Assess risk and build financial models to drive company performance
• Understand and interpret the key drivers of musculoskeletal spend, developing models to understand the impact of proposed solutions and strategies
• Identify insights and actionable opportunities from data that support and enhance our outcomes
• Conduct other health actuarial consulting activities, as required

ABOUT YOU

• 4+ years of actuarial and/or advanced healthcare analytical experience required;
• 4+ Actuarial Exams completed (Near or recent ASA preferred)
• 2+ years of experience working with medical and pharmacy claims data to analyze healthcare costs and utilization; experience evaluating the cost effectiveness of healthcare interventions preferred
• Strong understanding of various methodologies and statistical modeling techniques used for measuring outcomes
• Strong R, Python, SQL/SAS experience and ability to explore and gather data directly from SWORD’s database; familiarity with leading BI tools like Looker preferred
• Excellent written and verbal skills to communicate with peers, executives, and external stakeholders
• Comfort with ambiguity, and a fast-paced, changing environment


*Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.*


Sword Benefits:
Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance 
Equity Shares
401(k)
Unlimited Vacation
Paid Holidays
Flexible working hours
Work from home
Parental leave
Free Digital Therapist for your family
 
Sword is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.  We champion diversity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.  At Sword, we believe that diversity and inclusion among our applicants and team members is critical to our success as a global company.  The more inclusive and diverse we are, the bigger our impact will be.
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