Wind Modeller, Catastrophe Risk, London City
Full Job Description
Windstorm Catastrophe Modeller
£35,000 - £65,000 + Bonus + Benefits
The Company
Our client is a leading global reinsurance organisation that has an outstanding reputation within the industry.
The Role
We are looking for someone with an engineering background, masters or similar in geophysics or meteorology, and are able to to use their scripting skills to develop windstorm models. Exciting position where there is career progression, excellent retention within the team and a great name to have on your career record. Recent graduates will also be considered.
* Development of windstorm catastrophe models for reinsurance purposes
* Complete involvement in developing catastrophe models for Reinsurance purposes
* To participate actively in the development of the probabilistic windstorm hazard models (This encompasses processing, analysing and preparing source and hazard data, i.e. candidate needs to be technical )
* To manage entire model development projects, i.e. candidate needs to have managerial
* skills
* To work with damage data or vulnerability methodology to allocate to an asset the
* likelihood of being affected by a storm
* To coordinate cooperation with external partners, this may need travelling abroad
* To communicate and present intermediate and final results to other departments such as cat management team, etc., candidate needs to have excellent communication skills.
* To deliver external presentation to clients, at conferences, etc.
* To bring innovation while understanding the requirements/limitations of the practices of the
* team
* To be part of the development team and be able to coordinate tasks with other members
* To collaborate with other team members from different offices worldwide
* To use in-house software packages
The Candidate
* Appropriate educational background: an MSc/Postgraduate Degree or equivalent industry
* Knowledgeable in the field of engineering
* Good knowledge of scripting languages e.g. Python, Matlab, R, Fortran
* Knowledge of databases e.g. MS SQL Server
* Proficiency in MS Excel and other MS Office apps and excellent general computing skills
* Excellent written and spoken English. Other European languages also welcomed
* An understanding of the insurance business will be an advantage
* Extremely innovative, enthusiastic and hard working
* High level of inventiveness, strong analytical and conceptual thinking skills
* Ability to carry out work independently with minimum supervision and common sense
* Above average communication and presentation skills
* Willingness to continue professional development in the field
* Availability to work extra-hours if needed
* Able to pick up things quickly in regards to the working subject
* Able to deal with people from different countries and different backgrounds
* Be able to explain complicated processes in a simple manner
* Good planning skills required in order to finish tasks on time
* Ability to work in a team
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