Summer Internship- Underwriting Analytics Intern
Internship, Underwriting Analytics Intern - National Life Group - USA
What you’ll be working on:
- Assist with underwriting Research and Development initiatives by providing actionable, data driven insights to decision makers
- Help improve the technical framework for a systematic retro-study tool, to assess protective value of new pieces of underwriting evidence
- Analyze data from our automated underwriting engine to help inform rule changes, prevent fraud, and improve straight through processing rate
- Assist with various predictive modeling projects such as risk classification, clean-sheeting detection, early claim forecasting, and smoker non-disclosure
- Enhance existing data visualizations by partnering with consumers to understand opportunities for improvement and enhancement
- Provide ad hoc reporting and analysis to various leaders within operations
- Support the development of our analytics community through collaboration with other analysts and education of our customers at all levels of the organization on metrics, dashboards and tools.
- Partner with both the Business and IT to support and drive towards a culture of data and analytics
What we are looking for:
- Studying in a quantitative field such as Data Science, Economics, Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Finance, or Statistics
- Analytical aptitude is essential, mathematical and statistical knowledge/experience helpful
- Possess a customer service attitude and demonstrates effective communication at all levels of the organization
- Experience with Tableau, Python, or R preferred
- Strong attention to detail and possesses the ability to reconcile reporting by explaining relevant variable and their respective impact on the reporting
- Thirst for learning new things quickly, enjoy challenges and is a demonstrated self-starter
- Naturally inquisitive and willing to independently seek out knowledge, ask relevant questions and clearly formulate and articulate opinions
- Ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
- Highlights of the 2020 National Life Group Program:
- Lunch-and-Learn Series—6 business classes delivered by company leaders including:
- DISC – Understanding Work Styles
- Business Etiquette
- Generation Diversity
- Formal orientation and onboarding
- Intern Reception and Outing
- Scholarship Award to Outstanding Intern of the year
- Cross-Departmental Group project focused on an enterprise-wide solution