Senior Specialist - Catastrophe Modelling

Job Description - Senior Specialist - Catastrophe Modelling (78001810D20230424)

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Senior Specialist - Catastrophe Modelling (78001810D20230424)

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We are looking for a motivated and capable candidate to drive catastrophe analytics and provide modelling support for our reinsurance pricing team. Working alongside actuaries, modellers, and underwriters globally, the role will involve a mix of project work – often presented to senior stakeholders - and renewal pricing for multiple offices. The ideal candidate will combine technical expertise with interpersonal skills, allowing them to not just deliver modelling results, but also to build relationships and communicate insights that will help shape the portfolio and influence our strategic direction.

What will your essential responsibilities include?

1. Pricing complex reinsurance contracts using vendor catastrophe models and our proprietary simulation platform.
2. Leading event response analytics, to provide loss estimates following large catastrophes and shape and develop our long-term strategy in this area.
3. Leading other catastrophe analytics projects, and translating the results into strategic insights for both internal stakeholders and external clients.
4. Coordinating, training, and working with cat modellers across multiple offices, to ensure efficiency, technical excellence, and clear communication throughout the team.
5. Developing tools to support and streamline other responsibilities, potentially using various platforms/languages.
6. Developing frameworks for pricing and aggregation of man-made perils, including for non-property lines, where appropriate.
7. Occasional travel to other offices to build relationships with pricing and underwriting teams.

You will report to the Head of Catastrophe Analytics, Reinsurance.

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

1. Relevant industry experience - either in reinsurance, or in a closely related discipline from which skills could be transferred.
2. Experience working with third party catastrophe models or other sufficiently similar stochastic models.
3. Proficiency in Excel and other MS Office applications, and experience of manipulating and querying large datasets in SQL.
4. Demonstrable aptitude and appetite for solving new and sometimes unexpected problems.
5. High attention to detail, and hence rigorous and accurate work.
6. Desire to continuously learn and improve over time.
7. A proactive and adaptable approach to organising, planning, and keeping on top of multiple priorities, in order to meet deadlines.
8. Ability to work independently and with initiative, seeking out and developing own solutions to problems.
9. Ability to simplify complex concepts, and communicate them clearly and confidently to others, both verbally and in writing.
10. A proven eye for making things simpler, quicker, and more efficient where possible.
11. An openness to challenge (both ways), and the ability to help a group to reach a consensus.
12. Strong interpersonal skills, to build productive relationships with individuals on all levels, including remotely across time zones.

FIND your future

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce enable business growth and are critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most diverse workforce possible, and create an inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and can reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter

At AXA XL, Sustainability is integral to our business strategy. In an ever-changing world, AXA XL protects what matters most for our clients and communities. We know that sustainability is at the root of a more resilient future. Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called “Roots of resilience”, focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations.

• Valuing nature: How we impact nature affects how nature impacts us. Resilient ecosystems - the foundation of a sustainable planet and society – are essential to our future. We’re committed to protecting and restoring nature – from mangrove forests to the bees in our backyard – by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans.
• Addressing climate change: The effects of a changing climate are far reaching and significant. Unpredictable weather, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels cause both social inequalities and environmental disruption. We're building a net zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions.
• Integrating ESG: All companies have a role to play in building a more resilient future. Incorporating ESG considerations into our internal processes and practices builds resilience from the roots of our business. We’re training our colleagues, engaging our external partners, and evolving our sustainability governance and reporting.
• AXA Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as AXA XL’s “Hearts in Action” programs. These include our Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and our annual volunteering day – the Global Day of Giving.

For more information, please see axaxl.com/sustainability

AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Location

Location: FR-FR-Paris

Other Locations

FR-FR-Le Mans, GB-GB-London

Work Locations

FR Paris Tour Majunga 92800

Job Field

Data & Analytics

Schedule

Full-time

Job Type

Standard

Local Title (France): Senior Specialist - Catastrophe Modelling

Local Class (France): Class 6

AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any colleague or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status or any other category protected by local law.