Job Description
The Role
An exciting opportunity for a Catastrophe Risk Analyst to join a leading exposure management team within one of the largest Lloyd’s syndicates. This role is ideal for someone seeking their first step, or their next career move, in the insurance industry with a focus on the non‑natural peril lines of business. It offers a unique opportunity to develop more nuance class expertise within the exposure management function with a split role between both Casualty and Cyber classes of business.
The successful candidate will join the non‑natural perils team and support the Cyber specialist and Non-natural perils exposure manager. Responsibilities include assisting the wider team with timely rollups, producing key exposure insights, and monitoring critical aggregations to ensure robust portfolio oversight.
Responsibilities
- Help support the Cyber specialist and non-natural peril leads in enhancing the understanding and quantification of cyber and casualty risk across the group.
- Build out an in-depth knowledge of the CyberCube model and in-house proprietary tools used to help capture, monitor and communicate cyber aggregations.
- Equip underwriting and senior management with detail to understand portfolio movements and drivers.
- Responsible for collating monthly/quarterly roll-up tasks within timeframes required to meet internal report requirements relative to both Casualty and Cyber.
- Maintain and develop existing Power-Bi reports used within the relative classes for monthly/quarterly reporting.
- Active involvement with the Cyber and Casualty underwriting team – supporting with ad-hoc queries and analytics as required.
- Work alongside the Cyber Research lead to drive improvements to our internal view of risk across classes of business.
- Ensure data completeness and accuracy is transparent across classes– with the aim to embed processes to continually improve through time.
- Active involvement with internal working groups to help build out stakeholder relationships across departments and use key insights to improve and develop our internal view of risk.
- Work closely with the senior technical lead in Non-Natural perils to help drive automation projects to streamline cyber and casualty workflows and help improve efficiency
- Support the team in collation and timely production of regulatory reports throughout the year
Skills And Experience
- Degree or experience working in an analytical discipline
- Highly numerate and logical – strong mathematical/statistical knowledge is advantageous
- Basic re/insurance knowledge
- Ability to manipulate large data sets with intermediate Excel skills
- Prior knowledge of key non-natural peril classes is desirable – e.g. Casualty and Cyber
- Knowledge of CAT models desirable
- A basic understanding of Power-Bi or similar reporting dashboards
- Familiarity and/or interest in learning MS SQL query language or other coding languages e.g. Python
Key Competencies
Collaboration and teamwork
- Good and effective communicator – open, honest, warm and respectful
- Works effectively with team/project or other work groups or those outside formal line of authority to accomplish goals.
- Follows through on commitments made to other team members by setting realistic expectations, communicating clearly about responsibilities and delivering on agreed-upon deadlines
- Good collaboration with others and open to input from others
Adapting to change
- Is open to learning new skills by identifying areas for improvement through discussions with managers. Seeks guidance from experienced colleagues to understand skills relevant to the role and actively seeks out training programs, workshops or online courses to develop skills/knowledge required for the role
- Ability to work to deadlines and manage workload priorities effectively
Continuous Improvement
- Maintains a sense of urgency to complete high-priority actions and to achieve goals by prioritising tasks based on priority and impact on the goals.
Resilience
- Takes accountability for own work by clearly defining personal responsibilities and deliverables for assigned tasks or projects.
- Shows awareness of the importance of social connections by seeking guidance and support from others when encountering difficulties, demonstrating a budding understanding of collaboration and strength in the collective
