Health and Benefits Associate

As a Health and Benefits Associate you will contribute to a wide variety of complex projects involving the design, financing, and ongoing management of the full spectrum of health and benefit programs for US-based self-insured employers. You will analyze client health data, assist with underwriting, claim projections, reserving, risk analysis, and plan design modeling. You will have the opportunity to significantly grow your health and benefits business acumen as well as your financial, project management and client communication skills by working on cutting edge projects alongside leaders in the industry. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the maintenance and development of actuarial/analytic tools. Projects you lead will leverage your financial and analytical skills as well as your understanding of US health benefits.This role is going to materially contribute to core health and benefits projects involving the design and management of group medical, dental, wellbeing, life, disability and absence management benefits for clients.**Responsibilities**:- Interacting with Senior Actuaries, Consultants, and Financial Analysts on the US Health & Benefits team.- Performs pricing, modeling, risk analysis, creation of benefit plan analysis, design, cost savings and funding strategies, drafting actuarial communications and slide decks to be presented at client meeting.- Conducting benchmarking studies and other research; provide value added analyses and summaries.- Analyzing and comparing vendor products, services, and contracts.- Contribute to the development of new actuarial/analytic intellectual capital.**Qualifications****Must Have**:- **2-4** years’ experience with work in a financial services setting (i.e., insurance brokerage, insurance carrier or other related environments)- Strong English & Spanish communication skills (written and spoken).- Strong mathematical/financial foundation.- Very strong Excel.- Xlookup, Sumifs, Sumproduct, Index/Match, Complex If statements.- Strong client service orientation and ability to respond to all communications effectively and in a timely manner.**Nice To Have**:- Experience working directly with US colleagues.- Actuarial Designation (or exams passed).- Experience as an underwriter (medical preferred, though dental/vision/rx etc could work)- Work at US Insurer (or better yet healthcare consulting firm).- Health analytics / Data analytics (SQL etc not needed in job, but indicates a good experience).- Experience with financial model creation (ideally in Excel).- Experience creating client-facing PPT decks, dashboards, etc.- Proven history of handling multiple concurrent deliverables, time management.**What’s in it for you?**- Benefits over and above the law: Grocery Coupons, Annual Performance Bonus, Saving Fund, among others- Major medical and Life Insurance- that’s assured- We are proud to actively invest in your learning through various learning platforms- Flexible Working - We understand flexibility is key to supporting an inclusive and diverse workforce and so we have a variety of different working arrangements- A high-performance company culture that will help you to progress quickly and thrive- International contact**About WTW**WTW is an award-winning advisory, broking and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth. Technology forms the core of our success as our forward-thinking WTW Tech teams build and innovate enterprise-level web and mobile software solutions for our global clients. Using the latest web and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technologies and modern development approaches to enable our teams to be best-in-class, our Technologists form a strong team of 40,000 across 140 countries continuing to create history.Want to know more about WTW? Read about life at WTW here.**Equal Opportunity Employer**Tipo de puesto: Tiempo completoSalario: $30,000.00 - $43,000.00 al mesLugar de trabajo: Empleo presencial