Non-Natural Perils Catastrophe Analyst

We are currently looking for a motivated individual keen to carve a career in the Insurance industry to join our Catastrophe Management team as a Catastrophe Risk Analyst. This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate looking for their first, or next move within the insurance industry. The successful candidate will be working within the non-natural perils pillar of the Catastrophe team, and will be responsible for analytics and reporting for a variety of non-natural peril classes including Offshore Energy, Bloodstock, and A&H, with the opportunity to support wider, as Canopius continues to expand and diversify their portfolio.

Responsibilities:

• Part of a team responsible for creating and enhancing non-natural catastrophe reporting MI to help drive strategic decision making.
• Providing management with the tools and insight required to better understand non-natural catastrophe aggregation risk across the Group.
• Active involvement in developing relationships with underwriters, with the aim of integrating underwriting and Non-Cat frameworks and goals – this involves confident and timely delivery of report analytics for key classes.
• Using PowerBI to create and maintain current monthly/quarterly and post-loss reporting for Underwriting and senior management where required.
• Enhance A&H reporting - an exciting opportunity for owning and creating new processes for this class.
• Use of Sequel Impact and proprietary tools to help capture and monitor aggregations within the Non-Natural Catastrophe team.
• Production of regulatory reporting for Offshore Energy, Bloodstock and A&H including Lloyd’s & Realistic Disaster Scenarios (RDS).
• Liaise with internal stakeholders on aggregation and portfolio analysis affairs including catastrophe management, and risk committees (primarily Non-Nat Cat Risk).
• Work with the Non-Natural Peril Exposure manager to drive improvements to view of risk (VoR) across classes of business, either through enhancement to existing scenarios, and/or build out of new views of risk to help manage and monitor non-modelled risk across the Group for classes responsible.
• Regular and effective management of bordereaux data and circulation to senior underwriting management.
• Provide exposure management inputs required for the preparation of reinsurance presentations.
• Assisting in the catastrophe management activities of other lines during key renewal periods.

Skills and Experience:

• General understanding of insurance and the Lloyd’s market.
• Highly numerate and logical – strong mathematical/statistical knowledge.
• Ability to manipulate large data sets with intermediate Excel skills.
• Familiarity and/or interest in learning with MS SQL query language or other coding languages is desirable.
• Ability to understand both the granular detail and see the bigger picture.
• Collaboration and teamwork.
• Good and effective communicator – open, honest, warm and respectful.
• Works effectively with team/project or other work groups or those outside formal line of authority to accomplish goals.
• Follows through on commitments made to other team members by setting realistic expectations, communicating clearly about responsibilities and delivering on agreed-upon deadlines.
• Good collaboration with others and open to input from others.
• Adapting to change.
• Is open to learning new skills by identifying areas for improvement through discussions with managers.
• Seeks guidance from experienced colleagues to understand skills relevant to the role and actively seeks out training programs, workshops or online courses to develop skills/knowledge required for the role.
• Ability to work to deadlines and manage workload priorities effectively.
• Maintains a sense of urgency to complete high-priority actions and to achieve goals by prioritising tasks based on priority and impact on the goals.
• Resilience.
• Takes accountability for own work by clearly defining personal responsibilities and deliverables for assigned tasks or projects.
• Shows awareness of the importance of social connections by seeking guidance and support from others when encountering difficulties, demonstrating a budding understanding of collaboration and strength in the collective.