VP, Risk Analyst Manager

RenaissanceRe is a leading writer of Property & Casualty Reinsurance. For over 25 years, we have helped customers and communities recover and build resilience through our industry-leading ability to understand risk, source efficient capital and rapidly pay claims.Our global team shares a passion for solving our customers’ biggest problems through a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture that empowers employees and rewards creative thinking.

About RenaissanceRe

For over three decades, RenaissanceRe has helped its clients manage the risks of operating in a volatile and uncertain world. We’re experts in Property, Casualty, Specialty, and Credit reinsurance, consistently recognized for the innovative way we combine data, experience and technology to understand and manage large and complex risks across the world. We are also a business with a real social purpose - we help protect communities around the globe and enable prosperity for all. Our purpose drives us forward every day as we seek solutions to some of the world's most complicated challenges.    To learn more, please visit us at Careers - RenaissanceRe (renre.com).

About RenRe Client Analytics

RenRe Client Analytics (RRCA) is a team of 30+ risk professionals located across North America, Bermuda and Europe who are responsible for supporting exposure and loss analytics for treaty reinsurance and direct insurance for natural and man-made perils.  Additionally, this team is responsible for client insights which complement other value add services for clients from RenRe Risk Sciences, RenRe Portfolio Analytics, and RenRe Business Development.

About the Position

The VP, Risk Analyst Manager is responsible for analysis, modeling and underwriting recommendations of assumed risks. This individual will be leading a team of Risk and Underwriting Analysts to support treaty reinsurance and direct insurance. The VP, Risk Analyst Manager is also responsible for system developments and acting as a resource for new product methodology.  A key element of this role is to drive the ownership and leadership of the US/Global/International Cat teams modelling effort to be genuinely led by the business.

Key Relationships

• Reports to: SVP, Head of Modeling, RenRe Client Analytics

• Key Stakeholders:  Underwriters located across our offices in Bermuda, Chicago, Dublin, London, Miami, New York, Singapore, and Zurich

• Key Partners:  Underwriting, RenRe Risk Sciences, & RenRe Portfolio Analytics

Key Responsibilities

• Assigning submissions for modeling to global treaty modelling team

• Managing and overseeing the development of a team of Risk Analysts

• Liaising with executives/senior managers and Risk Analysts in various business divisions to create company standards for catastrophe risk management

• Preparing policy data for use in commercially licensed property catastrophe models and proprietary models

• Communicating relevant information to underwriters and senior managers, such as analysis results, exposure and loss analytics, and key drivers of risk

• Creating reports and giving presentations to senior management

• Assisting in model change management related activities for catastrophe model vendor updates and the RenaissanceRe View of Risk

• Estimating potential losses to the RenaissanceRe portfolio from in-progress or recent catastrophic events

• Coming up with new ideas to drive profitability within the organization

• Developing leading analytics for management and clients

• Building and maintaining underwriter, broker, client, and reinsurer relationships

• Peer review of catastrophe modeling results

• Pricing of individual deals using proprietary models, including data presentation and running the models.

• Ensure modeling data quality requirements and internal controls processes are met

• Maintain tools to monitor aggregate exposure data of property business

• Prepare timely loss estimates and modeling data

• Liaise with underwriters in the evaluation of all aspects of reinsurance submissions

• Assess and benchmark data quality, vulnerabilities, hazard, financial and policy attributes, and valuations across reinsurance submissions

• Use of third–party and development of in-house tools for pattern recognition and identification of illogical and inconsistent data

Candidate Qualifications:

• 10+ Years of related experience and working knowledge of industry catastrophe models (AIR & RMS) and MS SQL

• Domain knowledge of the P&C treaty reinsurance/insurance market

• Undergraduate and/or graduate degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g. mathematics, economics, finance, statistics, meteorology, earth sciences, computer science, etc.)

• Ability to work under pressure and within a team framework

• Proven organizational skills and a strong sense of attention to detail

Leadership Competencies & Values:

• Impact:  Sets objectives, delivers results, and implements policies/operational targets with direct impact on the department or individual work outcomes

• Execution: Proactively identifies resources, actions and timelines needed to achieve objectives, effectively balancing tactical pressures with broader implications and downstream impact

• Communication: Shares relevant information in a timely manner with stakeholders and conveys points of view in a way that influences opinions and demonstrates flexibility

• Client and solutions focus:  Identifies process and service opportunities that enhance the external and internal client experience and outcomes

• Innovation:  Stretches self and others to think differently and innovatively, drawing upon multiple sources for ideas and inspiration

• Learning mindset:  Seeks out and explores new assignments, exposure, or challenges in order to enhance technical skills

• Values:  Exemplifies and champions RenaissanceRe’s core values of Focus, Respect, Integrity, Precision, Passion

We believe that meeting these requirements will position you for success in the role. However, if you fulfill most – but not all – of the expectations, we still encourage you to apply, as we are eager to explore your potential and believe in the ability to grow and learn.

At RenaissanceRe, we believe in creating a workplace culture that fosters diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our business. We have a zero-tolerance policy for harassment and discrimination and take proactive steps to make employees feel valued and empowered to contribute to our collective success. It is RenRe’s policy to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, national origin, marital or domestic/ civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status, uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Our people are our most valuable resource and core to our success. This is a fast-paced business environment, demanding a strong work ethic and a results-oriented approach. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, a comprehensive talent development program, and a reward system in which employees share in the success of the company. We are an engaged member of the communities in which we live and work and have a locally-led giving philosophy with generous employee matching program, global and local community grants and employee volunteerism.We seek diversity, create equity, and practice inclusion. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We are an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, disability, military status or other legally protected categories.