Senior Strategic Analyst
Acrisure Innovation
Austin, TX (Hybrid- 3 days per week in office)
Why Choose Acrisure?
Acrisure Innovation is a fast paced, AI-driven team building innovative software to disrupt the $6T+ insurance industry. Our mission is to help the world share its risk more intelligently to power a more vibrant economy. To do this, we are transforming insurance distribution and underwriting into a science. At the core of our operating model is our technology: we’re building a digital marketplace for risk and applying it at the center of Acrisure, a privately held company recognized as one of the world's top 10 insurance brokerages and the fastest growing insurance brokerage globally.
By leveraging technology to push the boundaries of understanding and transferring risk, we are systematically converting data into predictions, insights, and choices, and we believe we can remove the constraints associated with scale, scope, and learning that have existed in the insurance industry for centuries.As a Senior Strategic Analyst, you will be working with a cross-functional team of technologists to stand up a best-in-class analytics and tech stack to drive growth across our financial services verticals. In this unique role, you will be helping business units take advantage of data and analytics in two ways. First, you will be helping drive transformational change by executing analytics initiatives that provide the insights and recommendations that will underpin our corporate strategy.
Second, you will be maturing our analytics competency by helping develop the resources for our function to meet business units’ needs at scale and drive meaningful business impact. You will enable us to learn and scale rapidly by delivering insights to optimize performance and shaping the processes that will unblock barriers to scale.Here are some of the ways in which you’ll achieve impact:
Apply Business Acumen to Strategic Analytics Products
- Become an expert on Acrisure’s business drivers and the integrated set of choices we can make to optimize performance
- Utilize models and automation tools that allow for efficient analyses and forecasting across a variety of business lines and products
- Evaluate new opportunities to apply our technology to the business, with an emphasis on translating your findings to key stakeholders and developing action-oriented go forward plans
Deliver Data-Driven Insights and Recommendations
- Partner cross-functionally to align on analytics strategy, gain buy-in on approach and measure impact to the business
- Break-down problems into a structure of actionable business questions and analyses
- Effectively communicate findings to stakeholders representing a wide range of technical and business acumen
- Collaborate cross-functionally to profile problems and design solutions related to scaling experiments and optimizing performance
- Serve as a domain expert to ensure technologies and analytics processes in place are future-proof
Deliver Best-in-Class Analytics for Key Corporate Initiatives
- Use exploratory data analysis techniques to identify meaningful relationships, patterns, or trends from complex data sets and validate your results
- Evaluate new opportunities, synthesize and translate findings, develop go-forward plans, and develop the tools to guide and monitor execution
- Enable effective self-service for key stakeholders adjacent to the central analytics function
- Build models and automation tools that allow for efficient analyses and forecasting across a variety of business lines and products
You may be fit for this role if you are:
- Analytical with strong business acumen. You are adept at decomposing and solving real world business problems by analyzing data and creating financial models. You are comfortable with data and ambiguity, able to independently delve into the details and think through the real-world business implications of your findings.
- Capable of driving success in any condition. You act like an owner and are independently capable of seeking information in an unstructured environment, solving conceptual problems, corralling resources, and delivering results in challenging situations.
- A concise and effective communicator. You can distill complex analysis and concepts into concise takeaways and translate insights effectively for audiences at all levels of the organization.
- An expert at multi-tasking and prioritization. You enjoy balancing numerous different priorities and demands.
- Comfortable with ambiguity. You act like an owner and are independently capable of seeking information in an unstructured environment, solving conceptual problems, corralling resources, and delivering results in challenging situations.
- Proficient in high-growth analytics. You understand the insights needed to help teams drive growth, and are comfortable with advanced analytics methods to drive revenue growth
- A relationship-builder. You are able to build trust quickly with internal stakeholders and customers with a high degree of empathy and with a team-first collaborative attitude.
- High energy. You bring passion and enthusiasm to your work and are highly productive in a fast-paced environment with little oversight on a day-to-day basis.
Results-oriented. You value outcomes over activities, and you can independently chart your path to deliver the desired results
- Technically proficient. Knowledge of SQL is required.
Other requirements:
- Work experience: 7+ years of work experience in strategic analytics or adjacent quantitative fields (Strategy, Management Consulting, Business Operations, etc.). Financial services experience preferred.
- Location: Willing and able to work hybrid 3 days per week in Austin, Texas
- Technical skills: Proficiency in SQL is required. Familiarity with Python or other scripting languages is a plus.
It’s not expected that any single candidate would have expertise across all of these areas. If you are a solid candidate and eager to drive impact by building a best-in-class analytics capability, we are eager to talk to you.Learn more about Acrisure Innovation: https://builtin.com/company/acrisure-innovationAcrisure is equally committed to supporting social issues. In 2021, the Company co-founded Evolution Advisors, a joint venture focused on providing greater access and more effectively distributing insurance products and financial services to minority-owned enterprises.
In its home of Grand Rapids, Acrisure provided $15 million to create the Acrisure Center for Innovation in Children’s Health at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital.Acrisure is committed to employing a diverse workforce. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. We are not able to sponsor visas for this position.To Executive Search Firms & Staffing Agencies: Acrisure does not accept unsolicited resumes from any agencies that have not signed a mutual service agreement.
All unsolicited resumes will be considered Acrisure’s property, and Acrisure will not be obligated to pay a referral fee. This includes resumes submitted directly to Hiring Managers without contacting Acrisure’s Human Resources Talent Department.https://www.acrisure.com/acrisureacastaffprivacynotice/#BI-Hybrid#LI-Hybrid
