Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Your part in a changing world
At QBE, our purpose is to enable a more resilient future.
We’re an international insurer and reinsurer with a local presence in 27 countries.
Leveraging our deep expertise and insights, QBE offers commercial, personal and specialty products and risk management solutions to help people and businesses manage risks, build strength and embrace change to their advantage.
We’ve been cultivating resilience since 1886, when our founders started a marine insurance company in Townsville, Australia to give early pioneers a safeguard against uncertainty.
Today, we employ more than 11,600 people around the world, and our product portfolio includes property, motor, crop, energy, marine and aviation insurance.

About the opportunity

In a newly created role in our Managed Funds Claims Business, we have an opportunity for a Data Scientist.  The team is looking to apply scientific principles to the claims operation to understand and manage the drivers of performance in a holistic way.

The role will involve translating the operational and performance needs of the managed funds business unit into data-driven predictive models that can be used to monitor and guide performance.

You will work under the direction of analytics partners in the performance team, who will support you in framing problems and developing hypotheses.  You will need to use scientific methods and analytic tools to tackle the problems including sourcing and integrating relevant data, analysing relationships, and developing and testing model structures.

The key responsibilities for this role include the following, but not limited to:

• Strategy and Planning
  • Develop and refine analytical use cases under the direction of Analytics leads in the performance team.
  • Play an active role on projects of diverse scope, range, priority and urgency within insurance Schemes that support the community
  • Translate between business and analytical problems
  • Interrogate and interpret data and models to formulate, evaluate and iterate hypotheses quickly

• Technical Performance
  • Source, integrate, explore and examine data from multiple sources; discover, analyse and summarize relationships, trends and insights; derive, validate and interpret models and the results of data experiments; and connect these analytic results to actionable insights to support better performance in managed fund claims
  • Assist in identifying and addressing key business questions, issues and opportunities. Diagnose root causes, by applying analytical and statistical techniques to quantitative data in combination with qualitative knowledge, assumptions and judgments
  • Collect new data and refine existing data sources as required
  • Contribute to the development of new descriptive, exploratory, diagnostic, and predictive analyses
  • Structure and document the data preparation, management, modelling, visualization and presentation tasks supporting each analysis output
  • Work effectively with actuaries, analytics partners and business analysts within the performance team. Share knowledge and contribute reusable practices and techniques within the team.
• People Management (Self)
  • Contribute to an inclusive environment that supports knowledge sharing and sharing diverse ideas
  • Take ownership of career development

Your Story So Far

• Bachelor to Master’s Degree in Quantitative/Scientific field (Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, or related disciplines.)
• Advanced programming skills in modelling platforms and modern data science tools (specifically R, Python)
• Knowledge of state of the art statistical and machine learning techniques and their business applications.
• Experience in producing meaningful insights from large structured and unstructured datasets and knowledge of relational databases such as: SQL, Hive, Pig.
• Understanding of experimental design techniques and their associated limitations.
• Deep understanding of the mathematics and statistics that support various model structures
• Inquisitive, with a passion for business improvement and empirical analysis

We are here to support you

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

• ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
• Our ‘Thriving at our Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• 12 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
• The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
• Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
• Additional leave and support through QBE’s Family Domestic Violence First Responder Network
• Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice

• 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
• Gold Employer status for 4 years in a row 2019 – 2022 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
• Ranked 6th place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2021 as voted by graduates
• Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)
• Family First accredited employer since 2021

Join us

Click APPLY to submit your application. Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment.

QBE takes a risk and compliance approach to COVID-19 vaccination and strongly encourages our employees to be vaccinated. Some roles require COVID-19 vaccination to perform the role.  When relevant we will ask you to share your vaccination status as part of the application process.  We won’t be able to progress with applications where candidates choose not to disclose their status for roles that require vaccination in line with our risk and compliance approach.

QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at .

 

Application Close Date: 08/04/2023 11:59 PM