Catastrophe Risk Analyst - UK - 28133

The Company is currently recruiting an experienced Catastrophe Risk Analyst to join their UK&I Property Team in London.

• Location: London
• Type: Permanent

Key Duties (Including but not limited to):

• Working as the client analytics lead on reinsurance placements and projects. For client portfolios, the role will include interaction on pressing topics like View of Risk, Climate Change, Inflation and Event Response.
• This person will lead conversations with reinsurers, brokers and actuaries to understand exposures, review modelling results, explain modelling limitations and resolve issues promptly.
• For knowledge transfer, there is continuous collaboration with colleagues and client teams outside of the UK, and participation in corporate practice groups and committees related to cat modelling and cat risk management.

Minimum Requirements:

• MSc or higher qualification ideally in finance, statistics, science or equivalent.
• BSc in Geography/Environmental and/or Risk.
• 5+ years of experience in catastrophe analytics in a broking house, at insurers, reinsurers, or similar financial services.
• Catastrophe modelling experience with vendor models (RMS, Verisk, JBA).
• Catastrophe Model Validation and Evaluation experience.
• Demonstrable coding skills in e.g. Python, SQL, R.
• Experience of Geospatial mapping software e.g. ArcGIS / Mapping Tools.