Catastrophe Modelling Analyst, Zurich Resilience Solutions, 80%-100%

At Zurich Resilience Solutions (ZRS) we’re committed to supporting our customers and business partners through harnessing the expertise in our global network.

We have a brand new role to help shape and grow our business which is going from strength to strength.

Your role in our Climate Resilience (CR) team is to support in the development, and deployment of state-of-the-art risk assessment methods and tools. In this role you will be working closely with customer facing business units as well as internal technical functions within Zurich Insurance (e.g. Group Accumulation Management, Group Re, Commercial Insurance Underwriting) to provide impactful data and actionable insights to help our customers understand and manage their climate risk. Your core responsibility in this role is to support the development of climate-adjusted loss models (average annual loss, extreme event losses, etc.) for ZRS Climate Resilience’s work with customers.

The ideal candidate will be naturally collaborative with experience integrating the needs of multiple stakeholders into their development work. They will have excellent technical skills including a strong coding and data analytics background as well as communication and organizational capabilities that facilitate work in projects with multiple workstreams.

What you will do

As a Catastrophe Modelling Analyst, your main responsibilities will involve:

• Contribute to a multi-stakeholder project to operationalize climate data, by deploying climate-adjusted financial loss models for customer-facing and underwriter-driven applications

• Develop selected peril-specific financial loss models in collaboration with others across the organisation

• Research, source and analyse data from internal and open-source databases

• Coordinate with Group Accumulation Management team (Research and Development) and others on the technical aspects of catastrophe loss modelling

• Liaise with customer-facing colleagues from Zurich Resilience Solutions for the implementation of the models & communication of output, including through visualization tools, documentation and thought leadership

• Support the monitoring of global sustainability regulations and frameworks to identify needs in terms of climate-related financial metrics

What you bring

As Catastrophe Modelling Analyst your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

• Master Degree in a quantitative field - natural/environmental/atmospheric science, mathematics, physics or statistics

• Good understanding of Climate Change and Natural Hazards science, models, and their practical implementation

• At least 2 years of experience using cat modelling tools (incl. open source) preferably in the finance or insurance industry

• Hands on experience on data modelling, analytics and visualization tools (e.g. Python, Power BI, MATLAB, SQL, etc) as well as strong statistical and analytical skills.

• Experience in applying machine learning techniques and modelling large data sets is beneficial.

• Consulting experience is a plus, i.e. commercially oriented with an ability to identify opportunities for providing services

• The ability to clearly communicate relevant details with all levels of management and stakeholders of various levels of technical proficiency.

Additional Information

We look forward to receiving your online application.

Zurich wants to attract the best talent and we acknowledge that talents might not always be available full-time. At Zurich we will consider requests for flexible working. Many of our employees work flexibly in a variety of ways. Please talk to us during the interview about the flexibility you may need.

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Why Zurich

At Zurich, we like to think outside the box and challenge the status quo. We take an optimistic approach by focusing on the positives and constantly asking What can go right?

We are an equal opportunity employer who knows that each employee is unique - that’s what makes our team so great!
Join us as we constantly explore new ways to protect our customers and the planet.

• Location(s): CH - Zürich
• Remote working:
• Schedule: Full Time or Part Time
• Recruiter name: Christopher Parkinson