Job Description

Actuarial Intern

Optum, the fast-growing part of UnitedHealth Group, is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business. Our teams are dedicated to modernizing the health care system and improving the lives of people and communities.

Serving virtually every dimension of the health system, we work with a diverse set of clients across 150 countries – from those who diagnose and treat patients to those who pay for care, deliver health services, and those who supply the cures. Optum maintains operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Our innovative partnerships provide technology and tools that enable unprecedented collaboration and efficiency. As a result, we can tap into valuable health care data to uncover insights and develop strategies for better care at lower costs.

If you want an intern experience that will dramatically shape your career, consider a company that’s dramatically shaping our entire health care system. UnitedHealth Group internship opportunities will provide a hands-on view of a rapidly evolving, incredibly challenging marketplace of ideas, products and services. You will work side by side with some of the smartest people in the business on assignments that matter. Join us, and you may end up staying for a career in which you can do your life’s best work.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office.

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About the Internship

As an Actuarial Analyst Intern, you will work within the Ireland Optum Advisory (OA) team. Joining our team, you’ll become part of a driven, focused group that prides itself on continuously improving business results. As a trusted subject matter expert tasked with incorporating traditional expertise into innovative, cutting-edge actuarial/analytic solutions, you’ll find your performance recognized and rewarded in an environment that provides clear direction for success.

You will encounter great opportunities to enhance and develop your skills through some or all the following activities:

• Initiating, compiling and preparing analytical models, tools and databases

• Assisting in the development of actuarial data architecture and assumption setting

• Conducting and documenting moderately complex analysis and research

• Preparing, forecasting, and analyzing trends

• Providing detailed summaries, reports and recommendations to assist managerial decision making

• Maintaining the necessary communication and coordination with colleagues, stakeholders, and clients in multiple locations

Required Qualifications/Skills:

• Ability to quickly learn and use computer software tools effectively

• Exposure to one or more of the following tools: Excel, R, Python or SQL

• Good communication skills

• The ability to work a portion of monthly work hours from our Dublin or Letterkenny office is required

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve.

Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care must go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.SM

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the Optum Ireland Telecommuter Policy.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.