Associate Economist - UZ08BE
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Reporting to the Head of The Global Insights Center, the Economist will be responsible for researching tends and data related to the economies of the US and international countries. Sectors of the economy that will be of particular focus include construction, housing, labor markets, inflation, autos, consumer demand, and global trade. This analysis will be used by the candidate to formulate US and international economic views and outlooks and their implications for risk. In particular, the output of the research will be utilized by internal departments to help underwriting decisions and risk analysis. The candidate will also research geopolitics and how global trends could affect risk. Furthermore, the candidate will help develop risk models that can help quantify economic and geopolitical trends. Strong knowledge of Excel and modeling is preferred while econometric modeling skills will be additive.
Reporting to the Head of The Global Insights Center, the Economist will be responsible for researching tends and data related to the economies of the US and international countries. Sectors of the economy that will be of particular focus include construction, housing, labor markets, inflation, autos, consumer demand, and global trade. This analysis will be used by the candidate to formulate US and international economic views and outlooks and their implications for risk. In particular, the output of the research will be utilized by internal departments to help underwriting decisions and risk analysis. The candidate will also research geopolitics and how global trends could affect risk. Furthermore, the candidate will help develop risk models that can help quantify economic and geopolitical trends. Strong knowledge of Excel and modeling is preferred while econometric modeling skills will be additive.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelors degree in economics, finance, or math.
• Strong knowledge of economic principals.
• Understanding of geopolitics and the global risk environment.
• Team player with a strong collaborative orientation; ability to build strong relationships across an organization.
• Entrepreneurial and creative focus to determine new work streams, initiatives, and deliverables that could be of value to internal parties and external clients.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity in a matrixed organization; ability to guide, influence and navigate effectively with different constituencies in achieving company goals.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills

INTERNET REQUIREMENTS:

• For full-time, occasional, part-time, or remote positions: (1) high speed broadband internet service is required, we do not recommend or support DSL, wireless, Wi-Fi, Hotspots, Fiber without a modem and Satellite; (2) Internet provider supplied modem/router/gateway is hardwired to the Hartford issued computer with an ethernet cable; and (3) 100MB download/10MB upload. Contact/Call center role using Genesys softphone and Citrix/ATO users. Users who participate in frequent Teams video conferences, as well as those who download/upload large file content throughout the workday.
• To confirm whether your Internet system has sufficient speeds, please visit http://www.speedtest.net from your personal computer.

Conducting Economic analysis

• Follow and track data in the US and international countries to formulate views on economic trends in various markets.
• Collate data from publicly available sources to support the team.
• Help build modeling tools to develop economic outlooks and forecast specific data points.
• Follow geopolitical trends and become an expert on a geographic region helping socialize the team’s views on geopolitical risk.

Supporting the Insights Center’s Client Engagement

• Support the Insights Center’s development of power point presentations that are used for internal and external engagements.
• Develop innovative new products that can help socialize the team’s views to new and perspective clients.

Internal Risk Governance

• Work with Insights Center’s leadership to to understand how various internal business units operate and how they quantify risk.
• Based upon the overall economic and geopolitical view, discuss with units how emerging trends could affect their risk decisions.