Nat Cat Analyst

Support the Cat Manager with ensuring smooth operations, by ensure pricing and accumulation are timely, accurate and compliant with guidelines and with the catastrophe risk management of SCOR’s portfolio.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Support :

  • Support treaty reinsurance catastrophe modelling support to underwriters. Analyse cedant exposure/modelled results received from clients/brokers and import into vendor risk modelling environment for in-house modelling
  • Support the delivery of catastrophe risk pricing of treaty reinsurance using those vendor models, experience and/or internally developed tools as per SCOR process and guidelines
  • Be a point of contact for one or more markets
• Analytics:
  • Support projects and follow-up questions / modelling assumptions brought up by underwriters and/or analysts
  • Collaborate in transverse initiatives (Cat Systems, Analytics and Governance, wider Reinsurance or Specialty Insurance units)
  • Support to the AvE Analysis
• Project / Research:
  • Collaborate in projects to answer underwriter-specific queries on hazard, vulnerability and model behaviour
  • Learn to understand and interrogate vendor models to develop appropriate risk-views for pricing and accumulation
  • Collaborate in projects on Nat Cat topics to support the Nat Cat team and the business
  • Collaborate in research related to better understanding of natural perils
• Join senior Nat Cat Analysts in client visits as required

Experience

• No prior work experience is required
• Sound knowledge of Microsoft Office (Proficiency in Excel). SQL, GIS. Programming skills ideally in R or Python
• Clear communicator, able to structure an argument and ability to explain complex issues in a simple way. Team player, interested in sharing knowledge and helping to develop the team.

Personal Competences

• Highly motivated and driven individual who has the maturity to work with a diverse group of personalities

• Strong work ethics and ability to work in a rapidly changing and complex environment

• Strong organizational and time management skills

• Effective communication and collaboration skills with effective interpersonal verbal and written skills to communicate with non-technical colleagues

• Good analytical and problem-solving skills

• Good business acumen – synthesizes analytical skill with business insight

• Self-starter who finds creative solutions and brings positive attitude to address challenges

• Willingness to travel in the region

As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying “The Art & Science of Risk,” SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.

Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.

As an international company, our common culture is defined by “The SCOR Way.” Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.

SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.