Type of Work:



Job Title: Catastrophe Risk Analyst - Financial Services/Towers Perrin Reinsurance

Areas of Interest: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Actuarial Science

Location: Philadelphia

Business Practice: Reinsurance

Travel Requirements: Under 5%

Towers Perrin is a global professional services firm that helps organizations around the world optimize performance through effective people, risk and financial management. The firm provides innovative solutions to client issues in the areas of human resource strategy, design and management; actuary consulting to the financial services industry; and reinsurance intermediary services

The Business Practice:

The Reinsurance business of Towers Perrin provides global reinsurance intermediary services and consulting expertise that focus on the creative blending of traditional and nontraditional risk transfer vehicles. We help our clients with reinsurance strategy and program review; claims management and program administration; catastrophe exposure management; contract negotiation and placement; and market security issues.

Job Description:

The Catastrophe Modeling group helps our insurance company clients estimate loss caused by catastrophic events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados and terrorism. Clients use our results to set their risk management strategies, including the purchase of reinsurance. As a Catastrophe Risk Analyst you will be part of team that works with state-of-the-art probabilistic models to produce quantitative reports for our clients that assess potential financial loss to insurance portfolios due to natural disasters.

In this challenging position, you will be involved in manipulation and quantification of client data using a variety of software tools. In addition, you will play a key role in analyzing data using catastrophe models, interpreting analysis results, preparing client reports and presentations, and discussing results with production staff.

Responsibilities include:

1. Running catastrophe analyses using RMS, AIR and EQE software to estimate insurer’s catastrophe losses;

2. Conducting checks and edits on client-supplied data with database software;

3. Interpreting and highlighting exposures and analyzing results in relationship to client’s reinsurance purchase;

4. Supporting the presentation of findings through both written and oral reports including PowerPoint presentations to brokers/clients and prospects/reinsurers.

Requirements:

5. Undergraduate or graduate degree in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, or Actuarial Science;

6. 1-2 years of prior related work experience is a plus;

7. Excellent analytical and statistical skills;

8. Strong computer skills especially in Access and Excel;

9. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

10. Attention to detail;

11. Ability to set priorities and work under pressure;

12. Overtime may be required.

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