Overview

Why GM Financial?

GM Financial is the wholly owned captive finance subsidiary of General Motors and is headquartered in Fort Worth, U.S. We are a global provider of auto finance solutions, with operations in North America, South America and the Asia Pacific region. Through our long-standing relationships with auto dealers, we offer attractive retail financing and lease programs to meet the needs of each customer. We also offer commercial lending products to dealers to help them finance and grow their businesses.

At GM Financial, our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes new ideas, fosters integrity and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.

Our Purpose: We pioneer the innovations that move and connect people to what matters.

Responsibilities

GM Financial is targeting significant growth as it transforms the Protection/Insurance Products into a full captive platform. Our team is responsible for bringing the branded General Motors F&I products to market and we work hands on with our dealer partners to improve performance in their F&I department. In order to provide the most competitive products and business insights, we are building out our actuarial team. Do you enjoy being innovative and solving problems? We are looking for an Actuarial Analyst to join the team. Actuaries combine statistics/mathematics, financial theory, industry and business insight to manage risk and model the financial impact of uncertain future events based on their likelihood. They develop insurance pricing, estimate reserves, and forecast trends. Actuaries investigate and transform data to derive actionable insights and inform actuarial models. They understand the nature of and put a value on risk.

About the role:

• Applies actuarial models and methods of moderate to high complexity on an ad-hoc basis to solve business problems
• Serves as subject matter expert for defined procedures of moderate to high complexity
• Supports implementation and documentation of new and innovative advanced methods and models
• Writes code of moderate to high complexity using SQL, Python, R or similar to query, calculate, transform, combine and visualize data
• Performs EDA to verify adequacy of data for task and performs reasonability checks
• Support the design, development and validatation of predictive and prescriptive solutions with appropriate guidance to inform decisions and make recommendations
• Pursue problem identification and impact across large data sets, leveraging statistical and visualization techniques to further enhance insight and internal performance optimization
• Develop and build analytical solutions to solve ad-hoc business problems based on existing requirements, models, and methods
• Perform adhoc assignments with minimal guidance required, taking reasonable measures to ensure accuracy, appropriateness, and completeness
• Mentors and trains junior analysts
• Work with various functions, including finance, accounting, engineering, platform teams, R&D, IT, and others as required
• Perform periodic reserve reviews (eg UPR, IBNR, cancellation)

Qualifications

What makes you the dream candidate: 

• Experienced with traditional methods for ratemaking, reserving, and other actuarial analyses
• Experienced developing analytical solutions using R, Python or similar tools, such as reserving software
• Mastery of data visualization techniques and modern interactive data visualization tools
• Strong working knowledge of code-based data visualization
• Experienced with querying, combining, and transforming complex data through SQL, Python, R or similar tools
• Experience applying advanced methods of probability and statistics, statistical modeling, data mining, machine learning, or deep learning techniques to solve business problems
• High level organizational and project management skills in order to handle assignments in a timely manner and to monitor processes throughout a team or department
• Strong decision-making and critical thinking skills
• Working knowledge of reserving software such as ResQ, Arius, etc

Experience: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, or other quantitative field required
• 3-5 years of experience with actuarial ratemaking and reserving, statistics, data science, and/or related quantitative experience required
• Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society; may be actively pursuing Fellowship required

What We Offer: Generous benefits package available on day one to include: 401K matching, bonding leave for new parents (12 weeks, 100% paid), tuition assistance, training, GM employee auto discount, community service pay and nine company holidays.Our Culture: Our team members define and shape our culture — an environment that welcomes innovative ideas, fosters integrity, and creates a sense of community and belonging. Here we do more than work — we thrive.Compensation: Competitive pay and bonus eligibilityWork Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work environment, 2-days a week in office