Analyze statistical data, such as mortality, accident, sickness, disability, and retirement rates and construct probability tables to forecast risk and liability for payment of future benefits. May ascertain premium rates required and cash reserves necessary to ensure payment of future benefits.

Other names for Actuaries: Actuarial Analyst, Actuarial Assistant, Actuarial Associate, Actuarial Mathematician, Actuary, Health Actuary, Insurance Actuary, Pricing Actuary, Pricing Analyst, Product Development Actuary,

• Ascertain premium rates required and cash reserves and liabilities necessary to ensure payment of future benefits.
• Analyze statistical information to estimate mortality, accident, sickness, disability, and retirement rates.
• Design, review and help administer insurance, annuity and pension plans, determining financial soundness and calculating premiums.
• Collaborate with programmers, underwriters, accounts, claims experts, and senior management to help companies develop plans for new lines of business or improving existing business.
• Determine or help determine company policy, and explain complex technical matters to company executives, government officials, shareholders, policyholders, or the public.
• Testify before public agencies on proposed legislation affecting businesses.
• Provide advice to clients on a contract basis, working as a consultant.
• Testify in court as expert witness or to provide legal evidence on matters such as the value of potential lifetime earnings of a person who is disabled or killed in an accident.
• Construct probability tables for events such as fires, natural disasters, and unemployment, based on analysis of statistical data and other pertinent information.
• Determine policy contract provisions for each type of insurance.
• Manage credit and help price corporate security offerings.
• Provide expertise to help financial institutions manage risks and maximize returns associated with investment products or credit offerings.
• Determine equitable basis for distributing surplus earnings under participating insurance and annuity contracts in mutual companies.
• Explain changes in contract provisions to customers.

• Calculators or accessories
• Desktop computers
• Notebook computers
• Personal computers

Office suite software

Financial analysis software

Word processing software

Presentation software

Spreadsheet software

Data base user interface and query software

Object oriented data base management software

Development environment software

Analytical or scientific software

Compliance software

Electronic mail software