REQUIREMENTS & SKILLS:

• 4+ years exposure management/cat modelling/actuarial experience
• Educated to degree level (numerical degree preferred)
• Experience operating within the Lloyd’s environment desired
• Experience delivering change projects
• Experience working on a multinational team
• Experience supporting junior members of a team
• Experience automating processes and reporting
• Experience developing loss methodologies desired
• Detailed understanding of Insurance and Reinsurance
• Relevant Exposure Management knowledge
• Understanding of key man-made lines of business
• Knowledge of key Exposure Management regulatory inputs (RDS, BSCR, Standard Formula)
• Strong and proficient MS Excel skills (pivot tables, xlookups)
• Data manipulation skills (SQL and Python ideal)
• Data analytic skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Able to prioritise and plan effectively
• Able to build strong working relationships across teams and collaborate
• Self-motivated, able to develop knowledge and skills independently

ABOUT US:

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.
We are committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience. If you require accommodations because of disability or health condition, please email: gscemeaedi @ robertwalters.com. This position is being sourced through our Outsourcing service line

ROLE OBJECTIVE:

This is an important role assisting the Exposure Management Manager to support Aspen’s exposure management capabilities within man-made cat. Analysing risk information and developing insights for insurance and reinsurance for internal and external reporting. For this role, exposure management refers to the management of risk accumulations from a wide range of man-made perils to which Aspen may be exposed, including (but not limited to) casualty, cyber, terror and others.
Our Aspen Values are expected to be reflected in the delivery and performance of every role.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategy and Planning:

• Actively contributes to functional strategy development
• Arranges own work priorities and activities in line with agreed plans to ensure the achievement of personal and team objectives
• Develops strategy for their responsible lines of business aligned with the functional strategy

Policy, Process and Procedures:

• Comply with external and internal frameworks, policies, procedures, and regulations
• Promotion of Exposure Management best practice in all areas of work
• Working towards becoming a subject matter expert in assigned lines of business by pro-actively working closely with Underwriting, Risk and other Exposure Management Analysts
• Working towards becoming a subject matter expert in Exposure Management regulatory oversight and submissions.

Environmental Awareness/Customer Focus:

• Liaise closely with Underwriting teams on key exposure management issues
• Develop relationships with key stakeholders as required
• Identify potential value-add reports and processes to Underwriting and Management
• Ensure appropriate and timely communication on Exposure Management to relevant Underwriters
• Assist other departments in understanding exposures and implementing new frameworks or regulatory requirements

Technical Performance:

• Run established BAU processes utilising SQL, Excel and Python
• Independently identify and implement improvements to existing reporting processes
• Adapt and develop processes to respond to new requests and regulatory requirements, internal and external
• Support EM Manager to identify and work to resolve limitations in Aspen’s man-made views of risk/accumulation models and approaches
• Pro-actively engage on the development of the Exposure Management datamart (SQL), embedding knowledge into the data processes with manager support
• Understand and opine on data flows into Exposure Management, taking steps to ensure data is appropriately used by the team
• Interrogate SQL database to inform responses to stakeholders
• Provide ad-hoc data and analysis to manager requests
• Ensure compliance with regulatory submissions within personal remit
• Own netting down process for quarterly and regulatory reporting

People Management:

• Support junior team members in the running and development of BAU processes
• Support junior team members and prioritise day to day workload as appropriate
• Manage team BAU and regulatory deliverables (i.e. quarterly reporting, RDS, BSCR, standard formula, NAICS)
• Act as a point of reference to guide and advise others to ensure the sharing of knowledge and best practice
• Supports others in the team where appropriate to assist in the achievement of objectives