This is an opportunity to join Ascot Group - one of the world’s preeminent specialty risk underwriting organizations.
Designed as a modern-era company operating through an ecosystem of interconnected global operating platforms, we’re bound by a common mission and purpose: One Ascot. Our greatest strength is a talented team who flourish in a collaborative, inclusive, and entrepreneurial culture, steeped in underwriting excellence, integrity, and a passion to find a better way, The Ascot Way.
The Ascot Way guides our people and our organization. Our underwriting platforms collaborate to find creative ways to deploy our capital in a true cross-product and cross-platform approach. These platforms work as one, deploying our capital creatively through our unique Fusion Model: Client Centric, Risk Centric, Technology Centric.
Built to be resilient, Ascot maximizes client financial security while delivering bespoke products and world class service — both pre- and post-claims. Ascot exists to solve for our clients’ brightest tomorrow, through agility, collaboration, resilience, and discipline.
Job Purpose:
To analyse and report the group’s exposure and cat modelled capacity for natural perils and man-made risks within the limits defined by the business plan and senior committees. This role includes supporting the Exposure Management team with developing processes and enhancing decision making to deliver exposure requirements across the business.
This position provides an excellent opportunity for the candidate to develop the exposure management technical function across all lines of business. An interest in new technology and exploring how this can be utilised from an EM perspective is important in this role. Adding efficiency and building future workflows / reporting capabilities is also a core aspect of this role.
Detailed Duties:
Data Management
- Undertake EM projects, both as part of a team and self-guided, to enhance Ascot’s understanding of natural and man-made perils which the group are exposed to.
- Have or be able to acquire excellent knowledge of existing catastrophe modelling software, its capabilities and limitations, from a technical perspective
- Contribute to other EM projects to enhance Ascot’s overall approach to data management
Development & Efficiencies
- Contribute to the enhancement of Ascot’s EM Tech Framework
- Take an innovative approach to enhancing existing workstreams and managing risk appetites
- Involvement in the improvement and streamlining of Exposure Management capabilities and processes
Reporting
- Support the production of comprehensive, complete, timely and audited/reconciled data extracts to senior management and external third parties
- Ad-hoc data extracts, reports, analysis across all Ascot systems
- Regular meetings with EM managers to update on progress, discuss priorities
Proactive Research
- Participation in the wider activities of the exposure management team as well as the overall risk function
- Assist the Exposure Manager in ad-hoc projects (e.g testing/enhancements to new systems/procedures)
- Keeping up-to-date with technological developments applicable to our field
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
- Educated to at least degree level in a relevant scientific/numerate subject.
- Demonstrable competence in the following:
- Competent user of Microsoft Office products (particularly Excel)
- Experience of Power Bi
- SQL Server/T-SQL 2016+
- Experience using high-level coding languages like VBA, R, Python. C++ or C# and development experience using version control
- Experience of Verisk / RMS favourable
- Understanding of GIS systems and principles. Ability to script using GIS packages in R or Python desirable.
- Creative and able to advocate novel ideas and solutions.
- Details orientated, while being efficient and timely.
- Good problem solver with strong communication skills
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