Senior Catastrophe Risk Analyst

at  Aspen Insurance Holdings

Date: Jan 31, 2025
Location: London, GB, EC3M 3BD
Company: Aspen Insurance
Since Aspen was founded in 2002, we have become a leading, diversified specialty insurance and reinsurance company. We respond thoughtfully and creatively to find the best outcomes for our clients and business partners through carefully-tailored solutions.
We believe the way we work is just as important as the work we do, and we are guided by our core values of respect, honesty, trust and professionalism.
Aspen is a great place to develop your career offering an exciting and challenging environment where achievement is rewarded.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Highly proficient in manipulating, merging, and cleaning or checking data from multiple sources including internal to the company or external

Ability to plan, prioritise and manage workload effectively and efficiently

• Highly proficient in manipulating, merging, and cleaning or checking data from multiple sources including internal to the company or external
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Science, Engineering, or relevant
• Hands-on cat modelling, exposure management, or portfolio analysis experience
• Experience of running and interpreting Moody’s RMS models essential
• Qualified or highly experienced in quantitative analysis and analytical tools, including Microsoft Excel
• Technical experience with data manipulation and programming (SQL and/or Python preferred)
• Experience operating within the Lloyd’s environment (experience with regulatory requirements such as RDS, minimum standards) desired
• Familiarity with principles of (re)insurance catastrophe models such as RMS and AIR
• Strong knowledge of Reinsurance and Insurance
• Familiarity with treaty reinsurance structures and deal or portfolio evaluation is beneficial
• Good knowledge of vendor models – including maintaining an awareness of best practice and new modelling techniques and approaches
• Expert knowledge of particular natural-catastrophe exposed territories and associated cat models (e.g. Australia and New Zealand) is beneficial

At Aspen we know that having a diverse and inclusive workforce is good for our people, good for our business and good for the environments in which we operate. We therefore welcome applications from people which allows us to draw on diverse cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences.

The purpose of this role is to perform Catastrophe Risk modelling, primarily for the ‘International’ Property Treaty portfolio, which requires pricing support for reinsurance programs exposed to worldwide natural catastrophe perils. The input to and development of wider CRM activities is also important, for example non-treaty portfolio natural catastrophe and terror accumulations, as well as view of risk and process / analytics improvement projects. The senior analyst will act as a liaison with Underwriting and other Aspen stakeholders with regards to their Catastrophe Risk Management activities and outputs.