Exposure Management - Senior Treaty Analyst

This role is a Senior Analyst role within Chaucer’s Exposure Management Team, with a specific focus on Chaucer’s Property Treaty business. The primary objective of the role is to provide the catastrophe risk modelling service to the Property Treaty Underwriting Teams. This includes day‑to‑day account modelling for underwriting and pricing using internal and external modelling platforms, analysing and explaining modelled results, monitoring aggregate usage, maintaining a complete and accurate portfolio of accounts and supervising the external outsourced resources. The Senior Analyst will be responsible for ensuring the completeness and accuracy of the data and subsequent analytics. They will need to manage relationships with outsourcing partners and provide training where necessary. The role also requires working closely with the Property and Treaty Lead and underwriting teams to support the blueprinting of potential growth in the portfolio for appetite setting and producing detailed account‑level analytics to support them in the underwriting processes. This role will include line‑management responsibilities; however, this will not be immediate. The intention is that the Senior Treaty Analyst will eventually be required to support the daily supervision and development of the Treaty Analysts, in addition to conducting Annual Performance Reviews & Objective setting.

Main duties

• Utilising various catastrophe modelling platforms to process, model and analyse aggregate and detailed exposure data
• Providing analysis and insight into the model outputs to underwriters at both an individual account and portfolio level
• Monitoring portfolios against risk appetite measures
• Overall responsibility for maintaining an in‑force portfolio and ensuring the completeness and accuracy of the data and results
• Working closely with underwriters on a daily basis to understand their priorities and manage their expectations accordingly
• Working closely with the Treaty Analysts to understand the team’s priorities and deadlines
• Create and produce regular exposure metric reports
• Assisting Property and Treaty Lead in ad hoc requests
• Take a leading role in appetite planning for future years
• Continuously work with Property and Treaty Lead to identify efficiencies within processes
• Assist in management of Outsourcing team workflow and ensuring process manuals are maintained and updated when required.
• Understand, investigate and report on any and all loss movements during monthly roll‑up
• Understand how the "Chaucer view of risk" relates to the business written by the Property Treaty Division and be able to explain this to stakeholders
• Provide management, training and development of Analysts and Outsourcing Team

Regulatory responsibilities

• Participating in the wider activities of the Exposure Management Team
• From time to time, taking part in relevant projects throughout the wider business
• Keeping up‑to‑date with new science and technological developments in the Catastrophe Management field and performing other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organisation
• Take a leading role in presenting reports and data to key stakeholders

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Experience

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

Skills

• Excellent numeracy skills with a good understanding of probability and statistics
• Analytical abilities coupled with excellent attention to detail
• Have the ability to communicate effectively
• 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 the statistical methodologies underlying catastrophe models
• Knowledge of GIS and/or other mapping software (desirable)
• Knowledge of or interest in programming languages, including R and Python (desirable)

Qualifications

Experience

• Experience in a similar exposure management role
• Educated to degree level preferred but not essential for an excellent candidate (desirable)
• Other relevant professional qualifications such as ACII, CRM or CCRA (desirable)

Personal Skills

• Willingness to use initiative to solve problems
• Attention to detail in a data intensive environment
• Excellent communications skills with the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely
• Good interpersonal and influencing skills with the ability to build effective relationships
• Professional attitude to meeting deadlines and objectives
• Highly motivated and prepared to go the extra mile

Chaucer is a leading insurance group at Lloyd’s, the world’s specialist insurance market. We help protect industries around the world from the risks they face. Our customers include major airlines, energy companies, shipping groups, global manufacturers and property groups. Our headquarters are in London, and we have international offices in Bermuda, Copenhagen, Dubai and Singapore to be closer to our clients across the world. To learn more about us please visit our website. Chaucer is committed to diversity, actively values difference and respects people regardless of the protected characteristics which are outlined in the Equality Act 2010 (UK legislation) as a result of the Equal Treatment Directive 2006 (EU legislation). A diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace are core to our success as a business and integral to our winning strategy and culture. We recruit from the widest available pool of talent, and our hiring, assessment and selection process is fair, free from bias and one which ensures we select the right person for the job, based on merit. We are committed to promoting a culture that actively values difference, and recognises that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect throughout their employment. We are open to considering flexible working arrangements for all roles and encourage you to outline your needs during the interview process.