Director, P&C Climate Risk and Exposure Analytics

Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values – honesty, integrity, loyalty and service – define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

The Opportunity

This position can work remotely in the continental U.S. with occasional business travel.

The Climate Risk and Exposure Analytics team is situated in the Actuary & Analytics group within USAA’s P&C business. The team works closely with the Catastrophe Risk Management team and seeks to develop the associations long term strategy under a changing climate.

The director drives and builds the climate risk team that provides actionable insight and analysis to enable USAA to proactively manage catastrophe exposures and drive sustainable growth. Continuously strengthens and leverages the latest scientific advances and tools to enhance USAA’s understanding of how climate change will impact its business and develops strategies to support management of the evolving risk. Partners with key stakeholders in Catastrophe Management, Product Lines and Underwriting to develop decision useful climate adjusted analytics.

Leads and develops a highly analytical staff that provides decision support for business areas across the enterprise. By serving as a strategic partner to the business this function will be responsible for applying mathematical and statistical techniques and/or innovative /quantitative analytical approaches to draw conclusions and make 'insight to action' recommendations to answer business objectives and drive change.

What you’ll do:

• As a strategic partner, leads or collaborates with other analytical leaders in executing the strategic direction of the business using mathematical and statistical techniques and/or innovative/quantitative analytical approaches.

• Develops team reputation as highly skilled experts in the area of climate science support.

• Oversees and coordinates analytical tasks which include the evaluation of the business problem, analytical methodology, validation, documentation and presentation of findings and recommendations.

• Monitors, understands and embraces emerging technology that can affect the application of scientific methodologies and/or quantitative analytical approaches to problem resolutions.

• Identifies additional resource needs ranging from IT investments, 3rd party support or additional analysts and provides business rationale and justification for additional needs.

• Understands the business direction, environment and strategies, to set the analytic and climate risk direction of exploration and builds strategy to execute the approach that will influence business and drive change.

• Leads the effort and/or partners with enterprise analytics teams to build USAA core analytics capabilities and processes.

• Builds and oversees a team of employees for assigned functional area through ongoing execution of recruiting, development, retention, mentor and support, performance management, and managerial activities.

• Assigns and or serves as a mentor for mathematical skills and statistical techniques for climate analysis and guides teams to use the appropriate approaches, to drive fact-based decision-making and strategy development.

• Maintains and innovates knowledge of data analysis tools, data visualization, developing analysis queries and procedures in SQL, SAS, BI tools or other analysis software, and relevant industry data & methods and ability to connect external insights to business problems.

• Researches and pursues the latest and/or industry leading practices in data and analytics, (Ex: Cloud, Data Mining, Python, Neural Networks, Sensor data, IoT, Streaming/NRT data) to advance the overall Climate Risk community knowledge.

• Identifies opportunities to continue to learn in the data and analytics space, whether informal (E.g., Coursera, Udemy, Kaggle, Code Up, etc.) or formal (E.g. Certifications or advanced coursework).

• Works with IT/CTO partners to advance new data and platforms that correspond to evolving skill sets.

• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

• Bachelor's degree in quantitative analytics field such as Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Sciences, O