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Significant Duties and Responsibilities
This position is responsible for assisting in the building of statistical insurance risk models at State Farm, and in the presentation and explanation of models to both internal and external audiences. This position will also engage in additional loss-predictive and other insurance risk-and financial services related research efforts.

Qualifications Required and/or Desired

• Graduate degree in Statistics, or equivalent, with excellent quantitative and analytic skills
• Practical experience applying statistical science in a business setting
• Experience using statistical software in a mainframe and/or client-server environment (SAS preferred).
• Routinely engages in quantitative analysis on many non-standard and unique business problems and uses computer-intensive data mining techniques (decision trees, neural networks, etc.)
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Ability to handle multiple projects
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work with others.
• Experience creating commercially-viable statistical models based on insurance claim and policy data which predict insurance risk a plus
• Experience using FCRA-governed consumer data sources (credit reports, CLUE, etc.) highly desired.

• Works with clients to analyze needs for information/resources and converts them into action items, requests or projects, defines project scope, manages projects, and oversees the quality of work produced
• Conducts all phases of research and routinely engages in quantitative analysis on many non-standard and unique business problems
• Consults with clients on the use/development/support of various mathematical statistics, primarily on various methods of modeling and sampling, but also including complex methodological designs that enable ruling out alternate hypotheses, either through statistical controls or through experimental controls.
• Applies programming skills to make use of computer intensive analysis techniques and data mining packages
• Represents State Farm with external industry/vendors/consultants/governmental agencies in area of expertise
• Provides quantitative commentary and critical thinking on insurance issues, proposed insurance regulation and legislation, and pending litigation

Melea Adler, melea.adler.bccb@statefarm.com