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Casualty Modeller
Swiss RE
Armonk, NY, United States
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Casualty Modeller
About Swiss Re
The Swiss Re Group is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. It anticipates and manages risk – from natural catastrophes to climate change, from ageing populations to cybercrime. The aim of the Swiss Re Group is to enable society to thrive and progress, creating new opportunities and solutions for its clients. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, where it was founded in 1863, the Swiss Re Group operates through a network of around 80 offices globally. It is organized into three Business Units, each with a distinct strategy and set of objectives contributing to the Group’s overall mission.
About the role
Do you love identifying underlying drivers of business performance and to pursue research and development problems within a diverse team? Do you have experience finding and formulating evidence to support your hypotheses? Can you come up with intuitive explanations to convince your varying audience of business-relevant insights identified using innovative data and analyses?
Then this position is something for you to consider! Our work requires pronounced eye for business opportunities relying on strong technical (mathematical / logic) and analytical skills. Prior hands-on experience with a numerical programming language (R being first preference) as well as applied data analysis is necessary. Whilst there are no formal actuarial background requirements, knowledge of insurance industry and techniques will facilitate your understanding of the real issues behind the technical details.
About the team
Swiss Re's Casualty Research and Development unit is seeking a new colleague to join its US-based team. Together, we aim to improve our understanding of casualty lines of business, to identify future trends and to apply this knowledge to business problems faced by Swiss Re and our clients.
• We are an international team with presence in 3 offices around the world and a wide variety of cultural backgrounds
• We specialize in Casualty modeling, the flagship Liability Risk Drivers™ (LRD) being our patented comprehensive forward-looking model
• Our work is used to cost liability business, assess casualty risk accumulation and support portfolio steering
About you
Ideally on P&C actuarial track, you possess quantitative skills and are passionate about applying them to real world business problems. You will work with internal and external partners to identify business problems that can be via our R&D work by delivering tangible insights based on formal, quantitative analyses.
Quantitative skills: clear emphasis on real-life applications
You are already familiar with statistical analyses such as time series, parametric and non-parametric distributions, text processing. From your educational and professional background you have experience applying these techniques to real-life data (insurance and general, numerical and text) and are able to identify when the data is counter-intuitive and understand the implications. You can translate results of our quantitative work into intuitive visualizations and figures to support a working hypothesis.
Going to the core: what is it that truly matters?
Together with partners across different areas, external and internal, business and technical you find the real objective and the business value. Selectively detail oriented, you identify and focus on what can cause business objections and have a major impact on end product.
• You can venture out of your comfort zone to share views, hypothesize and brainstorm a solution, and then to fully focus on execution
• With an open mind to creative solutions, you have an understanding of insurance, actuarial techniques, rating plans and "typical" ways to cost business today
Personal skills: you make it happen
We are a small team, spread across the globe. We each rely on our independence and dedication to achieve our goals.
• You are results driven, eager to see output of your work being utilized and making a difference
• Accountable and self-sufficient, you have the ability to understand core issues and to develop solutions that address them without being given step by step directions
• You are comfortable presenting to senior management, both internally and externally, altering delivery depending on the audience to clearly convey the main points.
• Organized, able to prioritize and easily switch between projects you always make sure that the ultimate goal is clear to you and those your work with
To summarize
You bring to the team
• Strong academic background in statistics / data analysis, computer science, or in another technical field including natural sciences
• Flair for applied quantitative analytical work in the (re)insurance domain, ideally supported by actuarial studies
• Hands-on experience in R (preferably, but other numerical programming languages such as MATLAB and Python can be considered)
• Excellent oral and written English to accompany your strong communication skills
• Passion to work in an international and diverse environment
• Flexibility to accommodate limited travel requirements (approx. 5% of time), both within the US and internationally
The Company is an equal opportunity employer. It is the practice of the Company to recruit, hire and promote without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, pregnancy, sexual orientations, marital status, military status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Decisions on employment are solely based on an individual's qualifications for the position being filled.
During the recruitment process, reasonable accommodations for disabilities are available upon request. If contacted for an interview, please inform the Recruiter/HR Professional of the accommodation needed.
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