Life/Health Actuaries

Role Overview Mercor is collaborating with a global insurance and financial services client to support actuarial modeling processes via high-quality data preparation. We are seeking actuarial professionals with experience in seriatim data extraction, cleansing, and validation from life insurance policy administration systems. This opportunity centers around ensuring reliable, audit-ready datasets for valuation, modeling, and financial reporting workflows. This is a short-term, project-based opportunity with high autonomy and clearly scoped deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• Extract policy-level data for a given valuation date from systems such as FAST, OIPA, or Sapiens.

• Validate record counts against control totals and identify missing or inconsistent fields.

• Reconcile in-force movements between periods, including new issues and terminations.

• Identify and flag policies with anomalous data for manual review.

• Map product codes to actuarial model inputs and document data assumptions.

• Deliver a clean, formatted dataset suitable for actuarial projection software.

Ideal Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in actuarial data processing or valuation support.

• Familiarity with life insurance policy administration systems (e.g., OIPA, FAST, LIFE/400).

• Proficiency with Excel and data quality tools; basic scripting knowledge (SQL, Python) is a plus.

• Strong attention to detail and understanding of actuarial data structures.

• Ability to clearly document data anomalies and reconciliation logic.

More About the Opportunity

• Expected commitment: min 30 hours/week

• Project duration: ~6 weeks

Compensation & Contract Terms

• $75–100/hour

Application Process

• Submit your resume followed by domain expertise interview and short form

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.