Property and Treaty Senior Support (6 month FTC) in London

This is a senior support role within Chaucer's Exposure Management Team, focused on Property and Treaty business. The position provides advanced expertise and guidance across all Property and Treaty classes, supporting the development and performance of catastrophe modelling and exposure management activities. The role involves close collaboration with Property and Treaty Underwriters, delivering accurate portfolio insights and analytics to inform strategic decisions.

The job holder will play a key part in ensuring exposure information for monthly roll-ups and reporting is captured accurately in the appropriate systems. They will support account modelling for underwriting and pricing using internal and external modelling platforms, assist in analysing and explaining modelled results, monitor aggregate usage, and help maintain a complete and accurate portfolio of accounts.

Additionally, the role works with underwriters and the central exposure management team to assist in setting, monitoring, and reporting on internal and external appetites as required. The role may also involve participating in wider Exposure Management Team activities, contributing to relevant projects across the business, staying up to date with developments in catastrophe management, and performing other related duties as needed to support the organisation's ongoing needs.

Main duties

• Monitor the utilisation of various catastrophe modelling platforms to process, model and analyse aggregate and detailed exposure data.
• Support the provision of analysis and insight into the model outputs to underwriters at both an account and portfolio level.
• Support the monitoring of portfolios against risk appetite measures.
• Support the maintenance of the in-force Property and Treaty portfolio and ensuring the completeness and accuracy of the data and results.
• Consider and propose improvements to performance and efficiency.
• In conjunction with the Portfolio Manager, work closely with the R&D team to prioritise and contribute to the validation for both internal and externally licensed catastrophe models.

Additional 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.
• Performing other related duties to meet the on-going needs of the organisation.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Experience

• Essential: Experienced catastrophe modeller.

Technical Skills

• Essential: Strong numeracy skills with a good understanding of probability and statistics.
• A strong understanding of insurance and reinsurance financial terms.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel and MS SQL.
• Strong understanding of the statistical methodologies underlying catastrophe models.
• A comprehensive understanding of RMS Risklink.
• Desirable: Knowledge of GIS and/or other mapping software.
• Knowledge of or interest in programming languages, including R and Python.

Qualifications

• Desirable: Educated to degree level preferred but not essential for an excellent candidate.
• Other relevant professional qualifications such as ACII, CRM or CCRAP.

Personal Skills

• Excellent organisational skills and able to meet deadlines and objectives.
• Positive, proactive and self-motivating.
• Excellent analytical skills and logically minded.
• Team player with supervisory skills.
• Excellent communications skills; able to present complex information clearly and concisely.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills with the ability to build effective relationships.