Description:
Lead CAT Analyst - London
The Company: Gallagher Re
- At Gallagher Re we help ensure our clients have the right protection in place so when the unexpected happens it is not catastrophic for their business.
- We think of ourselves as enabling resilience in an uncertain world.
- We look at the world of risk from different perspectives, working with our clients at each stage of the risk identification, risk mitigation and risk transfer process.
- We make sure they have the capacity to react to extreme events and respond in a prepared, disciplined and organized fashion.
The team: UK&I and Property team
- The Catastrophe Analytics team, embedded into the broking unit, assists clients in analysing the risk to their business from all aspects of natural perils and catastrophic events.
- He/she will also be asked to train junior staff and eventually lead.
How You'll Make An Impact
The position is for a lead catastrophe analyst, based in London, to join the Catastrophe Analytics team.
The successful candidate will:
- Lead and contribute to renewal modelling projects on local and global accounts and develop & deploy service offering to clients, alongside our research teams and external academic partners.
- Quantify the catastrophe risk to Gallagher Re client portfolios using vendor catastrophe models and Gallagher Re proprietary models.
- Engage with clients, reinsurers, brokers & actuaries on topics including model interpretation, portfolio management and bespoke analytical projects.
- Contribute to Gallagher Re’s wider Catastrophe Analytics services, collaborating with other business units on wider projects, as part of our agile team.
- Understand and evaluate the impact of updates and revisions to models and the outputs produced.
- Contribute to reporting and analysis of natural disasters to support clients post-event.
- Support junior members in the team through training and advice.
- Work with colleagues in a variety of locations, including across Europe and our analytics hub in Mumbai.
About You
The successful candidate should have:
- A degree in numerate or hazard-related subjects
- Proven experience in the (re)insurance market and in catastrophe risk analysis using at least one of the main vendor models RMS and Verisk
- Working knowledge of (re)insurance business including understanding reinsurance structures and their application
- Ability to be client facing and lead our analytics relationship with clients.
- Strong problem-solving skills and keen attention to detail
- Excellent IT skills, including working knowledge of SQL
- Excellent communication skills
- The ability to work in a team and highly motivated to learn and grow within a global market leader.
- Eligibility to work in the UK