Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UFG Insurance is seeking a Catastrophe Modeling Analyst to join their growing team. The role involves analyzing property data to assess catastrophe risk, preparing modeling data, and providing recommendations to senior management while collaborating with various internal teams.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with data engineers and underwriters in gathering the data needed for catastrophe modeling as well as improving data accuracy and completeness; organize, scrub and prepare the data for model ready import files using valuation tools including SQL/Excel
- Analyze the risks for data quality, accuracy, and completeness; provide recommendations to management to enhance decision-making
- Run analyses using proprietary catastrophe model such as RMS, generate outputs to analyze the loss results and help determine the degree of risks of various perils
- Support the underwriting and actuarial teams by interpreting the modeling outputs for growth and rate-making
- Prepare analytical reports to understand the portfolio as well as concentration of risks
- Assess catastrophe risk arising from direct and assumed business
- Perform scenario modeling to analyze the impact of growth or reduction within the existing book
- Support improvements efforts to increase consistency, efficiency, and compliance with internal standards
- Stay well versed with the continuously changing catastrophe modeling industry and the models
- Respond to real-time catastrophic events, prioritizing over all else by computing potential losses as soon as the data is received, and inform the outcome to senior management once computed
- Effectively communicate information and results to a variety of technical and non-technical audiences across the organization
Skills
- Bachelor's degree
- 6+ years of catastrophe modeling experience
- Advanced proficiency with Excel, Power Point, SQL, Tableau
- Advanced analytical, technical, problem solving, time management, critical thinking, and project execution skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills including the ability to effectively collaborate with multi-disciplinary groups and all organizational levels
- Able to work independently and in a team environment
- Strong Knowledge of catastrophe modeling software such as RMS and AIR
- Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics, Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, or related field
- Either a minor concentration or additional degree in Meteorology
- Possess, or working towards, an CCRA, CEEM, and/or ARe certification
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