This is your opportunity to join AXIS Capital – a trusted global provider of specialty lines insurance and reinsurance. We stand apart for our outstanding client service, intelligent risk taking and superior risk adjusted returns for our shareholders. We also proudly maintain an entrepreneurial, disciplined and ethical corporate culture. As a member of AXIS, you join a team that is among the best in the industry.
Axis Capital
This is your opportunity to join AXIS Capital – a trusted global provider of specialty lines insurance and reinsurance. We stand apart for our outstanding client service, intelligent risk taking and superior risk adjusted returns for our shareholders. We also proudly maintain an entrepreneurial, disciplined and ethical corporate culture. As a member of AXIS, you join a team that is among the best in the industry.
Exposure Management / Reinsurance
The Reinsurance Exposure Management function has the responsibility to ensure transparency about the geographic distribution and characteristics of the risks accepted through reinsurance treaties. For the immediate future, this concerns primarily natural catastrophe exposed property risks on a global basis. Axis Capital is currently re-designing its exposure management tool landscape to better serve internal stakeholders like cat modellers, underwriters or portfolio management experts.
Are you looking for a temporary role over the next 3-6 months? Would you like to support our efforts in this highly business relevant area with us? Then this role, reporting to the Head of Exposure Management Reinsurance, might be a good match for you.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
Review existing exposure management tools with an (initial) focus on geographical information
Update geographical data (e.g. CRESTA zones) reference tables and scripts to transform such data, e.g. into different aggregation levels
Assist in the conceptual design and development of small prototypes that help to drive the general advancement of the exposure management tool landscape
Contribute to ad-hoc requirements of the exposure management function, e.g. related to ongoing natural catastrophe events
Communicate ideas and findings to relevant stakeholders
Required Skills, Qualifications & Experience:
Bachelor degree, preferably in natural science, mathematics or a related quantitative field
Intermediate knowledge and experience in problem solving in MS Excel is desired
Experience with programming languages/database management (VB/SQL) and knowledge in a scripting language like SQL, R, Python or Matlab is required.
Previous CAT Modeling experience is a plus
Good verbal and written communication in English is a plus
Must be open and enthusiastic regarding exploring and advancing an exposure management tool and flexible with changing priorities of tasks
Able to work independently as well as being part of international project teams
Working degree and time period can be discussed and will be between 50–100% for a time period of 3–6 months