Risk Analyst – 2024 Early Career Foundation Program

Location: London, UK (Onsite)

Application Deadline by April 26, 2024

Description:

Verisk’s Early Career Foundations Program (ECFP) is the perfect place for you to launch your career. When you join Verisk in your first professional role, you become part of an ECFP cohort with other recent grads working across several of our businesses around the globe.

During your first year with Verisk, you will get to experience a special developmental journey in which you’ll have access to senior leaders, job shadowing assignments, stretch opportunities, and learning and development programming designed to fully acclimate you into the Verisk community.

Extreme Event Solutions at Verisk is looking for a highly passionate, motivated individual to join in the Consulting and Client Services Group as part of the program.  As a member of Verisk’s consulting and client services team based in London, you will provide services to our London and international insurance and reinsurance clients within the catastrophe modeling industry. You will develop your technical, analytical, and project management skills to work with clients to enhance their usage of the Verisk suite of solutions and help troubleshoot any software-related issues.

If you are looking for an opportunity to expand your career and join a company that is committed to diversity while informing and influencing the future direction of extreme event modeling, please apply now. 

Responsibilities:

• Learn Verisk’s software platforms Touchstone and Touchstone Re and understand Verisk’s catastrophe models and their output. Provide day to day support to clients
• Support providing training sessions to clients to help them understand and use Verisk’s software and models whilst building client relationships
• Perform sophisticated risk analyses using Verisk’s cutting-edge catastrophe modelling technology for insurers, brokers, and other financial intermediaries in the internationally expanding business of catastrophe risk management
• Add value to modelled results through customisation of output tailored to the needs of clients
• Communicate directly with clients whilst working on consulting projects
• Help clients reliably assess and manage their catastrophe loss potential through interpretation of modelling results
• Perform portfolio management studies for understanding model change

Qualifications:

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, a solid understanding of probability concepts, excellent problem-solving skills and a commitment to client services.
• Proficiency in oral and written communication is highly desirable, particularly the ability to communicate complex ideas simply and effectively.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills are also required.
• Experience using Microsoft Office is essential and knowledge and understanding of the insurance/ reinsurance markets is preferred.
• Ability to code in languages such as SQL, R, Python will be highly beneficial. Knowledge of ArcGIS would be desirable.

Employer Insights

• Patricularly interested in candidates who have experience with or want to learn more about catastrophe modeling
• Candidates who have graduated university in 2023 or later are encouraged to apply