Senior Cat Analyst

Title:

Senior Cat Analyst

Company:

Everest Global Services, Inc.

Job Category:

Analytics

Job Description:

About Everest:
Everest Group, Ltd. (Everest), is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider, operating for nearly 50 years through subsidiaries in North America, Latin America, the UK & Ireland, Continental Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Throughout our history, Everest has maintained its discipline and focuses on creating long-term value through underwriting excellence and strong risk and capital management. Our strengths include extensive product and distribution capabilities, a strong balance sheet, and an innovative culture. Our most critical asset is our people. We offer dynamic training & professional development to our employees. We also offer generous tuition/continuing education reimbursement programs, mentoring opportunities, flexible work arrangements, and Colleague Resource Groups.

About the Role:

The Catastrophe & Exposure Management department of Everest Insurance, a member of the Everest Group, Ltd. is looking for an experienced catastrophe management professional to fill the Senior Catastrophe Modeler position.  Working alongside a team of highly trained Catastrophe Modelers, you will provide catastrophe risk assessment to help guide underwriting decisions on our Commercial Property insurance business, supporting Everest’s diversified profitable growth goals.

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Provide catastrophe risk assessment to underwriters

  • Review data provided by broker and client for data quality assessment (data cleansing)

  • Supplement additional data to provide better risk assessment of the exposure (data augmentation)

  • Leverage catastrophe modeling models and other analytical tools to provide timely risk assessment to underwriters; identify key risk drivers and suggest mitigation strategies with underwriters

• Research, develop, and present critical insights and new ways to understand the portfolio in addition to pre-existing measurements and techniques.

• Enhance our ability to capture, analyze and report on datasets; Improve existing automation tools and build new automations between systems and other existing tools.

• Develop, integrate, and maintaining tools utilizing programming languages.

• Assist senior leaders with the evaluation of new CAT market opportunities and emerging technologies, including new insurance programs, underwriting strategy, models, and software tools.

Work Experience & Qualifications:

• +5 years of P&C experience in adjacent roles, working in catastrophe modeling function in Insurance/Reinsurance

• Demonstrable rock-solid programming experience. Must be able to write SQL fluently.

• Track record of full-cycle development using Python, C#, or other languages to automate data flow and workflow processes across multiple enterprise products.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills with experience explaining complex technical and analytical concepts to business colleagues and senior management.

• Excellent problem solver: apply logic and reasoning to identify pros/cons of possible solutions, think through all angles and future implications when making decisions.

• Bachelor’s degree in STEM majors, finance, economics, business or computer science.

For NJ and NY Only: The base salary range for this position is $116,000 - $173,000 annually. The offered rate of compensation will be based on individual education, experience, qualifications and work location. All offers include access to a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, 401k match, retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

What if I don’t meet every requirement? At Everest we are dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace. So, if you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every element in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. Please let us know if you need any accommodations throughout the application or interview process.

 

Our Culture

At Everest, our purpose is to provide the world with protection. We help clients and businesses thrive, fuel global economies, and create sustainable value for our colleagues, shareholders and the communities that we serve. We also pride ourselves on having a unique and in