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West Des Moines, IA
Internship
Onsite
Intern
American Equity is a leading provider of annuity products dedicated to empowering clients in their retirement. The Data Analyst Intern will work within the Solutions Team in Insurance Operations, applying skills in analytics and data visualization to support ongoing projects and improve operational outcomes.
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- Shadow Customer Excellence and Insurance Operations team members to learn essential duties and functions of the role.
- Works within a Center of Excellence (COE) model for supporting business enablement by leveraging company data to drive decisions.
- Participate in data analysis to create solutions and improve outcomes across Insurance Operations for both team members and clients/agents/annuitants internal and external stakeholders
- Provides advanced analytics across variety of techniques, including data aggregation, statistical modeling, predictive modeling and machine learning.
- Collaborates with business partners and develop novel ways to meet objectives utilizing data, cutting edge techniques, and tools .
- Effectively communicates the analytics approach and how it will meet business partner objectives.
- Ensures adherence to data management and data governance policies and standards.
- Performs the above duties under supervision of direct manager or other members of the team.
- Completes project and support tasks with guidance from mentor and department leader.
- Collaborates with fellow interns across departments on a strategic, cross-functional initiative that drives meaningful business impact.
- Performs other related work as assigned.
Qualification
Required
- Actively pursuing a bachelor’s degree in a business-related field such as business analytics or management information systems (MIS); quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, data science.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively present information to stakeholders.
- Some experience using BI tools like Tableau, Power BI, and Ataccama.
- Some experience writing SQL queries, feature engineering, data analysis, data tools, building prototypes, using and creating algorithms and creating simulations.
- Some experience creating and using ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner by defining problems, troubleshooting problems, collecting data, establishing facts, and drawing valid conclusions.
- Ability to build strong relationships with internal and external partners.
- Takes initiative, follows-through and applies innovation in improving work processes.
- Understanding of statistics including regression, classification, anomaly detection, simulation, scenario analysis, modeling, clustering, decision trees, neural networks, etc. on large data sets.
- Some experience merging and transforming disparate internal & external data sets together.
- Strong organizational and planning skills.
- Ability to successfully handle pressure and meet deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite.
Preferred
Benefits
American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company® We are The Financial Dignity Company – and while each person might define financial dignity differently, we believe it’s having the means to retire with pride and peacefulness in your daily life.
Founded in 1996
West Des Moines, Iowa, USA
501-1000 employees
http://www.american-equity.com
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