- Leading a multi-stakeholder project to operationalize climate data, by deploying climate-adjusted financial loss models for customer-facing and underwriter-driven applications
- Supporting the development of peril-specific financial loss models e.g., directly as a specialist technical model developer, or with others through validation and feedback
- Coordinating with Group Accumulation Management team (Research and Development) and others on the technical aspects of catastrophe loss modelling
- Liaising with customer-facing colleagues from Zurich Resilience Solutions for the implementation of the models & communication of output, including through visualization tools, documentation and thought leadership
- Monitoring global sustainability regulations and frameworks to identify needs in terms of climate-related financial metrics
- Master Degree in a quantitative field - natural/environmental/atmospheric science, mathematics, physics or statistics
- Good understanding of Climate Change and Natural Hazards science, models, and their practical implementation
- At least 3 years of experience using cat modelling tools (incl. open source) preferably in the finance or insurance industry
- Hands on experience on data modelling, analytics and visualization tools (e.g. Python, Power BI, MATLAB, SQL, etc) as well as strong statistical and analytical skills.
- Experience in applying machine learning techniques and modelling large data sets is beneficial.
- Consulting experience is a plus, i.e. commercially oriented with an ability to identify opportunities for providing services
- The ability to clearly communicate complicated concepts in a concise and compelling manner to all levels of management and stakeholders of various levels of technical proficiency.
Catastrophe Modelling Specialist, Zurich Resilience Solutions, 80%-100% - Zürich, Schweiz - Zurich Insurance Company
Beschreibung
At Zurich Resilience Solutions (ZRS) we're committed to supporting our customers and business partners through harnessing the expertise in our global network.
We have a brand new role to help shape and grow our business which is going from strength to strength.
Your role in our Climate Resilience (CR) team is to support in the development, and deployment of state-of-the-art risk assessment methods and tools. In this role you will be working closely with customer facing business units as well as internal technical functions within Zurich Insurance (e.g. Group Accumulation Management, Group Re, Commercial Insurance Underwriting) to provide impactful data and actionable insights to help our customers understand and manage their climate risk. Your core responsibility in this role is to drive the integration of climate-adjusted loss models (average annual loss, extreme event losses, etc.) into ZRS Climate Resilience's work with customers.
The ideal candidate will be naturally collaborative with experience managing multiple stakeholders, and will have excellent technical communication skills that will be essential for the strategic development priorities of the climate resilience team in their customer solutions.
What you will do
As a Catastrophe Modelling Specialist, your main responsibilities will involve:
What you bring
As Catastrophe Modelling Specialist your skills and qualifications will ideally include: