Exposure Management - Senior Treaty Analyst

This role is a Senior Analyst role within Chaucer’s Exposure Management Team, focused on Chaucer’s Property Treaty business. The primary objective is to provide catastrophe risk modelling services to Property Treaty Underwriting Teams, including day‑to‑day account modelling for underwriting and pricing, analysing and explaining modelled results, monitoring aggregate usage, maintaining a complete and accurate portfolio of accounts and supervising external outsourced resources. The Senior Analyst will also oversee data and analytics accuracy, manage outsourcing partners, provide training, support the Property & Treaty Lead and underwriting teams for portfolio growth, and eventually supervise Treaty Analysts.

Responsibilities

• Utilise various catastrophe modelling platforms to process, model and analyse aggregate and detailed exposure data.
• Provide analysis and insight into model outputs to underwriters at both an individual account and portfolio level.
• Monitor portfolios against risk‑appetite measures.
• Maintain an in‑force portfolio, ensuring data and results completeness and accuracy.
• Work closely with underwriters daily to understand priorities and manage expectations.
• Collaborate with Treaty Analysts to understand team priorities and deadlines.
• Create and produce regular exposure‑metric reports.
• Assist the Property & Treaty Lead with ad‑hoc requests.
• Take a leading role in appetite planning for future years.
• Continuously work with the Property & Treaty Lead to identify process efficiencies.
• Assist in managing the outsourcing team workflow and ensuring process manuals are maintained and updated.
• Understand, investigate and report on loss movements during monthly roll‑up.
• Explain the “Chaucer view of risk” to stakeholders.
• Provide management, training and development for Analysts and the outsourcing team.
• Participate in wider activities of the Exposure Management Team and relevant business projects.
• Keep up‑to‑date with new science and technology developments in catastrophe management.
• Perform other related duties to meet the organisation’s ongoing needs.
• Take a leading role in presenting reports and data to key stakeholders.

Qualifications

Experience

• Willingness to work across different teams and continuously learn and adapt.
• Direct experience analysing and pricing catastrophe risk.
• Previous experience in the (re)insurance industry, preferably with Property Treaty modelling.

Skills

• Excellent numeracy skills with good understanding of probability and statistics.
• Strong analytical abilities and attention to detail.
• Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and MS SQL.
• Proficient understanding of insurance and reinsurance financial terms.
• Proficient in using at least one vendor catastrophe platform, ideally RMS.
• Understanding of statistical methodologies underlying catastrophe models.
• Knowledge of GIS and/or other mapping software (desirable).
• Knowledge or interest in programming languages, including R and Python (desirable).

Knowledge

• Knowledge of the statistical methodologies underpinning catastrophe models.
• Understanding of GIS and mapping software.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level (preferred but not essential).
• Relevant professional qualifications such as ACII, CRM or CCRA (desirable).

Personal Skills

• Initiative and problem‑solving ability.
• Attention to detail in a data‑intensive environment.
• Excellent communication skills for presenting complex information clearly.
• Good interpersonal and influencing skills to build effective relationships.
• Professional attitude to meeting deadlines and objectives.
• High motivation and willingness to go the extra mile.

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