Senior Catastrophe Modeler, Complex Modeling

Job Title: Property Risks Senior Catastrophe Analyst -Complex Risks

Division: Exposure Management

Reports To: As per Beazley's organisation chart

Key Relationships: Exposure Management, Property Risk Underwriters, Pricing, Capital Modelling Team, Ceded RI Team

Job Summary: Provide Natural Catastrophe Expertise to assist with complex modelling such as Parametric Reinsurance and Alternative Risk Transfer (ART), supporting Catastrophe Modelling Quoting, Bound risk entry and monthly portfolio roundup.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Actuarial Pricing to Provide Natural Catastrophe output and support for Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) quotes
• Provide Natural Catastrophe expertise support for maintaining appropriate tools to Price Parametric products
• Create Moody's (ex RMS) ELT output for Group wide Reporting output for Complex Risks
• Collate complex accounts for monthly roll up process and monitoring of Risk appetites
• Provide data to underwriters to assist in pricing and portfolio optimisation
• Assist in the reporting for external stakeholders and regulatory reporting such as Lloyd's Realistic Disaster Scenario Returns
• Presentation of data to underwriters and management in an easily digestible format
• Assist with ad hoc data requests
• Maintain all process documentation
• Interact with underwriting support functions, including data management, pricing, capital modelling, ceded reinsurance, claims, risk management and compliance.
• Provide SQL reporting assistance
• Provide skilled expertise on Complex modelling accounts to train Catastrophe Modellers.

Personal Specification:

Education and Qualifications

• Educated to 'A' Level or equivalent
• Graduate with a degree from any discipline
• Minimum 5 years Moody's RMS or equivalent cat model experience

Skills and Abilities

• Accurate and numerate with attention to detail;
• Computer skills - good working knowledge of MS Office, advanced Excel skills;
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail;
• Able to communicate effectively with others, both verbally and in writing;
• Ability to manage time, meet deadlines and prioritise;
• Motivational skills;
• Ability to work in a matrix management structure;
• Team worker as well as able to work on own initiative.

Knowledge and Experience

• Commercial Property Insurance experience
• Strong computer skills - Advanced Excel, VBA, SQL, R Studio, Power BI
• Expert knowledge of Parametric Insurance products
• Moody's RMS Intelligent Risk Platform

Aptitude and Disposition

• Outcome focused
• Self-motivated
• Flexible and enthusiastic
• Professional approach to successfully interact with internal and external clients.

Competencies

• Self-Starter
• Integrity
• Customer Focus
• Resilience
• Technical Competence/expertise
• Concern for Quality and Accuracy
• Team Work
• Impact and Influence
• Conceptual Thinking
• Initiative
• Time Management

Essential Criteria

• Minimum 5 years Moody's RMS or equivalent cat model experience
• Commercial Property Insurance experience
• Strong computer skills - Advanced Excel, VBA, SQL, R Studio, Power BI
• Expert knowledge of Parametric Insurance products

Who We Are:

Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years' experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to inspire our clients and people with the confidence and freedom to explore, create and build - to enable businesses to thrive. Our clients want to live and work freely and fully, knowing they are benefitting from the most advanced thinking in the insurance market. Our goal is to become the highest performing sustainable specialist insurer.

Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.

Our Culture

We have a wonderful mix of cultures, experiences, and backgrounds at Beazley with over 2,000 of us working around the world. Employee's diversity, experience and passion allow us to keep innovating and moving forward, delivering the best. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that is big on collaboration, diversity of thought and personal accountability. Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people and customers.

• Be bold
• Strive for better
• Do the right thing

Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive organization in touch with the changing world around us - our ambitious inclusion & diversity and sustainability targets are testament to this.

We are a flexible and innovative employer offering a friendly, collaborative, and inclusive working environment. We actively encourage and expect applications from all backgrounds. Our commitment to fostering a supportive and dynamic workplace ensures that every employee can thrive and contribute to our collective success.

Explore a variety of networks to assist with professional and/or personal development. Our Employee Networks include:

• Beazley RACE - Including, understanding and celebrating People of Colour
• Beazley SHE - Successful, High potential, Empowered women in insurance
• Beazley Proud - Our global LGBTQ+ community
• Beazley Wellbeing - Supporting employees with their mental wellbeing
• Beazley Families - Supporting families and parents-to-be

We encourage internal career progression at Beazley, giving you all the tools you need to drive your own career here, such as:

• Internal Pathways (helping you grow into an underwriting role)
• iLearn (our own learning & development platform)
• LinkedIn Learning
• Mentorship program
• External qualification sponsorship
• Continuing education and tuition reimbursement
• Secondment assignments

The Rewards

• The opportunity to connect and build long-lasting professional relationships while advancing your career with a growing, dynamic organization
• Attractive base compensation and discretionary performance related bonus
• Competitively priced medical, dental and vision insurance
• Company paid life, and short- and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) plan with 5% company match and immediate vesting
• 22 days PTO (prorated for 1st calendar year of employment), 11 paid holidays per year, with the ability to flex the religious bank holidays to suit your religious beliefs
• Up to $700 reimbursement for home office setup
• Free in-office lunch, travel reimbursement for travel to office, and monthly lifestyle allowance
• Up to 26 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Up to 2.5 days paid annually for volunteering at a charity of your choice
• Flexible working policy, trusting our employees to do what works best for them and their teams

Salary for this role will be tailored to the successful individual's location and experience. The expected compensation range for this position is $100,000-$120,000 per year plus discretionary annual bonus.

Don't meet all the requirements? At Beazley we're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't perfectly align with every requirement and qualification in the job specification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right candidate for this, or one of our other roles.

We are an equal opportunities employer and as such, we will make reasonable adjustments to our selection process for candidates that indicate that, owing to disability, our arrangements might otherwise disadvantage them. If you have a disability, including dyslexia or other non-visible ones, which you believe may affect your performance in selection, please advise us in good time and we'll make reasonable adjustments to our processes for you.