The Global Risk Solutions (GRS) Capital & ERM group is seeking a highly motivated individual to join its Capital Modeling group. This individual will join a small team of capital modelers responsible for designing, developing, and implementing dynamic financial analysis solutions for the Global Risk Solutions organization. The team is responsible for parameterizing the GRS Capital Model and legal entity models, including coordinating with Finance, Pricing, and Reserving, fitting distributions, developing risk dependencies, and supporting capital allocation. The successful candidate will have strong analytical abilities, enjoy developing statistical models and processes, working with large data sets, and diving deep into drivers of line of business dynamics.
Global Risk Solutions is a leading provider of commercial, specialty insurance, and reinsurance products, delivering a wide array of innovative products, deep technical expertise, strong client engagement and market-leading performance worldwide. The product lines include workers’ compensation, commercial multi-peril, surety bonds, crisis management, marine, terrorism, management liability, cyber liability, and energy.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with other team members to achieve the following with the goals:
- Regularly update capital model parameters and assumptions for multiple models
- Develop new solutions and improvements for statistical models and processes used to calculate these inputs
- Implement timely and practical solutions to complex problems
- Lead collaborative projects with Finance, Reserving, Pricing, and Underwriting with the goal of better understanding the business and reflect that understanding in model parameters
- Communicate processes and parameterization results to stakeholders outside the team
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Statistics, Finance, Economics, or similar required
- Minimum 5-7 years relevant experience required
- Very strong analytical skills with solid understanding of core casualty actuarial methods, techniques, and standards
- Expert in MS Excel and experience coding; Experience working with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and Capital modeling software, R, and Python preferred
- Experience with stochastic financial modeling and forecasting preferred
- Experience parameterizing reserve risk and UW risk preferred
- Comfort with solving new problems and generating ideas for improving existing processes
- Experience communicating analysis and technical concepts
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
- Associateship or Fellowship in the Casualty Actuarial Society (ACAS/FCAS) or in Society of Actuaries (ASA/FSA) designation preferred or comparable education/designation with relevant experience.
- Minimum 5-7 years relevant experience required.
- Sound knowledge of actuarial techniques and standards, as well as other business operations including financial, underwriting, legal, statistics, claims, sales, etc.
- Advanced communication and interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships and interact effectively with others within and outside the organization.
- Ability to motivate and mentor peers and motivate and train subordinates.
- Advanced computing skills (MS Office Excel, SAS, etc.) with ability to build complex models.
