General
Job Title: Catastrophe Analyst
Division: Exposure Management; General Management
Reports To: As per Beazley’s organisation chart
Key Relationships: NACP and E&S Homeowners Underwriters, Underwriting Assistants, Exposure Management Team
Job Summary: To provide underwriting support to the NACP & E&S Homeowners underwriting teams, specifically catastrophe modelling and pricing of risks, and capture of exposure data for bound risks.
Key Responsibilities
- Cleanse scheduled location and exposure data, then import or enter into RMS interface in accordance with team procedures
- Liaise with external service provider and update File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site with schedules that require cleansing & downloading cleansed schedules
- Obtain highest acceptable level of geocoding per risk using available tools & resources
- Supply the above information to Underwriters and Underwriting Assistants during quoting
- Quality control of risks entered in RMS interface
- Liaise with US Property Underwriting Teams
- Interact with Exposure Management Team.
- Any other reasonable duties as required.
General
It Is Important That Within All Your Interactions Both Internally And Externally You Adhere To Beazley’s Core Values - Being Bold, Striving For Better, And Doing The Right Thing – As They Contribute To An Internal Environment Of Teamwork And Promote a Positive Brand Image And Experience To Our External Customers. We Also Expect Beazley Employees To
- Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct, which incorporates the PRA and FCA Conduct.
- Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, the Culture & People or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system.
- Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers.
- Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs.
- Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, the Culture & People or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas. This may include, amongst others, Beazley’s underwriting control standards, Beazley’s claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management.
- Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system. These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups.
Personal Specification
Education & Qualifications
- Minimum of a high school diploma
Skills & Abilities
- Accurate and numerate with attention to detail
- Strong computer skills – Excel, Access
- Experience using RMS RiskBrowser and/or RMS Intelligent Risk Platform
- Ability to communicate effectively with others, both verbally and in writing
- Ability to manage own time and prioritise work
Knowledge & Experience
- Insurance knowledge, Excess & Surplus Lines preferable
- Knowledge of Catastrophe modelling & data requirements
Aptitude & Disposition
- Outcome focused, self-motivated, flexible and enthusiastic;
- Professional approach to successfully interact with internal and external clients
Competencies
- Accuracy
- Concern for quality
- Customer focus
- Initiative
- Self-starter
- Speed and accuracy
- Team work
- Technical competence/expertise
- Time management
Who We Are
Beazley is a specialist insurance company with over 30 years’ experience helping people, communities and businesses to manage risk all around the world. Our mission is to inspire our clients and people with the confidence and freedom to explore, create and build – to enable businesses to thrive. Our clients want to live and work freely and fully, knowing they are benefitting from the most advanced thinking in the insurance market. Our goal is to become the highest performing sustainable specialist insurer.
Our products are wide ranging, from cyber & tech insurance to marine, healthcare, financial institutions and contingency; covering risks such as the weather, film production or protection from deadly weapons.
Our Culture
We have a wonderful mix of cultures, experiences, and backgrounds at Beazley with over 2,000 of us working around the world. Employee’s diversity, experience and passion allow us to keep innovating and moving forward, delivering the best. We are proud of our family-feel culture at Beazley that empowers our staff to work from when and where they want, in an adult environment that is big on collaboration, diversity of thought and personal accountability. Our three core values inspire the way we work and how we treat our people and customers.
- Be bold
- Strive for better
- Do the right thing
Upholding these values every day has enabled us to become an innovative and responsive