Policy Services Data Analytics Intern

This role could be hybrid or remote based on proximity to an office location.

At Ameritas, our mission is Fulfilling Life. We do that in many ways, but especially by helping people invest in themselves by offering trusted financial products and advice. Because we believe everyone should be happy, healthy, and financially secure, we work hard to provide trusted financial products and valued guidance, including individual life and disability insurance, employee benefits, retirement planning, investments, and wealth management services.

Ameritas Life Insurance Corp is seeking a Policy Services Data Analytics Intern to drive the business by learning and performing work in areas including data analysis, business analysis, operations analysis, and knowledge management.

This internship will begin May 2024.

What You Do

• Gain practical experience with analysis, programing, testing, and implementation of metrics and data visualization tools.
• This internship will provide exposure to the following functions and duties:
  • Policy Services:
    • Support requirements elicitation and from Policy Services management related to business process improvement
    • Document business requirements and engage with business partners to validate requirements
  • Operations Analysis:
    • Support the development and continuous improvement of operational business metrics that help define and measure the performance of all processes associated with Policy Services
    • Assess and improve operational processes in the Policy Services space
  • Business Systems Administration:
    • Assist with identifying solutions to gather and present data
    • Support simple to complex metric gathering
    • Support partners in their ability to leverage metric and metric solutions to measure and improve performance as well as drive decision making
• Interact with associates in various areas of the enterprise, including senior leaders and other professionals

What you bring

• Must be actively enrolled in a college level degree program — associate or bachelor level
• Able to commit to a full year of work – part-time during the academic school year and full-time during the summer
• PT includes 15-20 hours a week
• FT includes 30-40 hours a week
• Experience in Excel, Power BI, Sequel, Cognos, and other data tools preferred
• Understanding of statistics
• Understanding of data modeling, eager to tell a story with data
• Organized and detail-oriented
• Professional and effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills required
• Self-starter who can identify opportunities to drive projects to a successful completion with minimal guidance from others.

What we offer

• Our company motto is “Fulfilling Life” and we take that job seriously, with a heavy commitment to volunteering and community support, employee well-being, and providing quality products and services that help our customers create a brighter future.
• Being a mutual-based organization, the return on our investment goes back into the company, to benefit our members/customers.
• We’re committed to professional development, opportunity, inclusion, and diversity. Team building and collaboration are also priorities.

This internship is benefits ineligible. 

An Equal Opportunity Employer:

Ameritas has a reputation as a company that cares, and because everyone should feel safe bringing their authentic, whole self to work, we’re committed to an inclusive culture and diverse workplace, enriched by our individual differences. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer that hires based on qualifications, positive attitude, and exemplary work ethic, regardless of sex, race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.