The exposure team primarily focuses on developing data products related to insured property exposures and industry loss curves. Such products are an important part of RMS product line and provide a wealth of valuable information for our clients.
Catastrophe Risk Modeler, 08-147 Location: Newark, California
Risk Management Solutions, RMS, is the world's leading provider of analytics and decision science solutions for the quantification and management of catastrophic risks throughout the world; RMS models and services are used by hundreds of insurance and reinsurance companies, hedge funds, corporations, and governments to assess a wide-range of natural and man-made perils, from earthquakes and hurricanes to terrorism and disease pandemic.
We are currently seeking a Catastrophe Risk Modeler to join our Exposure Development team in Model Development group, based in the Newark California office.
Responsibilities:
In this role you will be primarily responsible for:
Researching and mining socio-economic and engineering information related to insured properties mainly in American or European Countries.
Evaluating the Insurance Policy language in P&C industry in such countries and translating those details to implementable assumptions
Evaluating and implementing home-grown methodologies and solutions for property valuation
Developing insured value estimates, localized deductibles and limits and similar at geographic resolutions such as Zip, county, CRESTAs, district, state or similar
Executing analytics of Exposure Data provided by our clients, and benchmarking RMS data products against such data
Qualifications:
Postgraduate degree(s) in Civil (Structural) Engineering, Urban Planning, Econometrics, Actuarial or Similar
High level of proficiency in data analysis and data manipulation software tools (Excel, Access, VBA and SQL). Working knowledge of GIS software applications will be critical to your success.
Excellent written and verbal skills, as evidenced by technical presentations at meetings and conferences.
Experience in one or more of the following would be useful: underwriting, data mining, developing analytical models, claims handling or Actuarial Analysis.
Some knowledge of any of the following will be helpful: Fortran, C, C++, MATLAB or other statistical packages.
Additionally, the successful candidate will be a detail oriented, fast learner with strong analytical organizational skills.
A team player with a high-degree of self-motivation will be successful in this exciting position!
Ideal candidate would have developed data products in multiple capacities and would possess strong problem solving skills.
If you are interested in this or other interesting opportunities at RMS, please build your online profile with us today at www.rms.com OR email your resume to Jonathon.Wall@rms.com OR rms@agents.icims.com.
