[Remote] Senior Consulting Actuary - Medicaid

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Wakely Consulting Group, an HMA company, seeks a Senior Consulting Actuary to advance its Medicaid actuarial practice and health plan client service. The role manages client relationships and actuarial project teams, ensuring strategic plans and high-quality, timely deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Implement initiatives for Wakely products, tools and services through training and regular meetings
• Manage and understand individual client needs and develops a strategic plan to meet those needs
• Manage client relationships to include client visits, ongoing correspondence and feedback
• Mitigate risk by ensuring client contracts, documentation and processes are followed
• Conduct periodic reviews of project plans, final deliverables and post project results
• Oversee project communication and provide venues for constructive feedback
• Ensure project team is providing quality deliverables, updates and billing clients within timelines
• Appropriate delegation of work
• Maintain credentials, signing authority and health care knowledge through continuing education
• Implement industry training for internal/external initiatives
• Identify needs and align employee career path plans
• Manage the creation of additional resources and reference materials
• Implement brand recognition through participating in seminars/events and research papers, etc
• Generate new business and/or product lines by executing on established action plans
• Manage new marketing initiatives to generate sales leads
• Introduce new value add services to current clients
• Prioritize and manage operational efficiency initiatives
• Administer compliance of policies and procedures to ensure cross office collaboration
• Recruit top talent and participate in the selection and orientation process
• Oversee and participate in community and professional volunteer activities/opportunities

Skills

• Medicaid actuarially sound rate development principles and advocacy
• Forecasting
• Financial trend analysis
• Model development
• Medicaid policy impact monitoring at the federal, state and local levels
• Managed Medicaid health plan operations
• Strategic communication of insights to leadership
• Effective cross-functional teaming
• FSA designation (or ASA designation with additional experience)
• Minimum of 8 years of healthcare actuarial experience
• 2-3 years of project management and client management experience
• Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science, Math, Economics, or Statistics
• Experience in one or more of our core areas (Medicaid, healthcare reform, ACA, Provider Sponsored Organizations and Medicare Advantage)
• Experience presenting complex technical analysis to stakeholders
• Developing others' careers and leadership skills
• Full accreditation with the Society of Actuaries and American Academy of Actuaries
• Ability to decide in an independent way what actions should be taken
• Demonstrates the ability to convey thoughts and express ideas effectively, both verbally and written
• Builds constructive working relationships characterized by a high level of acceptance, cooperation, and mutual respect
• Makes reasonable estimates of resources needed to achieve goals or complete projects. Uses methods to plan and track work and commitments
• Displays an ongoing commitment to increasing skills
• Develops the ability of others to perform and contribute to the organization by providing ongoing feedback and opportunities to learn through formal and informal methods
• Consistently exercises sound judgment
• Formulates objectives and priorities, and implements plans consistent with the long-term interest of the organization and employees

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