Portfolio Steering & CAT Risk Analyst, Marine

We are looking for a Portfolio Steering and Cat Risk Analyst for our Marine team based in the London or New York City office. The specific nature of Marine risks, including static and non-static exposures, requires management within a consistent global framework.

About the role

Rapidly evolving exposures, risk mitigation approaches, tools, processes, and research demand continuous adaptation and up-to-date expertise. Detailed business monitoring and portfolio steering activities require sustained involvement and analytical focus. This role is vital to understanding exposure hotspots, market changes that affect a portfolio, and related trends/changes within the competitor landscape.

Your Team

Our team combines portfolio steering expertise with advanced catastrophe risk analytics to drive informed decision-making across our Marine line of business. We are responsible for strategic portfolio monitoring, natural catastrophe and terrorism portfolio modelling, accumulation management, data quality oversight, and reinsurance-related analytics. Using cutting-edge tools and industry-leading CAT modelling platforms, we collaborate closely with underwriters, actuaries, and reinsurance teams to ensure our Marine portfolio remains resilient, profitable, and well-positioned for growth.

Responsibilities

• Develop CAT Underwriting tools and reports specific for our Marine line of business both to enable portfolio steering and to support the underwriting process.
• Run Catastrophe loss modelling reports and prepare regular and ad-hoc data extracts and reports including portfolio analyses, CAT limit monitoring, supporting global business steering and providing input to ensure adequate Reinsurance protection.
• Cooperate closely with the Product Leaders, Technical Office and Regional Underwriting specialists.
• Support the definition of the risk appetite and capacity steering.
• Serve as business owner for IT and data initiatives, leading end-to-end scoping, prioritisation, and delivery of reporting and transformation projects, ensuring solutions such as Power BI dashboards directly support Marine Underwriting and portfolio steering strategy while advancing the data platform landscape.
• Provide on the spot consultancy and translate or explain CAT Modeling results and reports to Marine underwriters.
• Evaluate and make recommendations to ensure Marine specific requirements and exposures are most appropriately reflected and cater for the special nature of Marine.
• Provide training and education of the Marine Underwriting community on CAT-related topics.
• Collaborate with Underwriting and other relevant functions (Actuarial, Risk Management, Reinsurance, Global Accumulation and CAT Risk Management, ARC, Claims, etc.) to support business steering, portfolio management and data quality improvements.

Requirements

• Experience in CAT risk management and catastrophe modelling.
• Experience in CAT analytics within a catastrophe modelling vendor, insurer, or reinsurer.
• Hands-on experience with CAT modelling tools.
• Excellent communication skills, strong attention to detail, and a collaborative team-oriented approach.
• Ideally cat management experience in Insurance or Reinsurance.
• Strong analytical skills with hands-on experience in Excel, VBA, SQL, or similar.
• Project Management experience.
• Degree preferably in Geosciences, Engineering or Mathematics.
• Professional experience in insurance and/or reinsurance is preferred.
• A willingness to learn and explore how AI can enhance your role and the broader organization is expected.

Pay

The annualized base pay range for this role in New York is $101,364 to $153,200. The actual salary for this position may be above and will be determined by several factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role, the skills, education, training, credentials, and experience of the candidate. The base pay is just one component of the total compensation package. As part of our comprehensive compensation and highly rated benefits programs, employees are also eligible for annual performance-based cash incentive awards.

External applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future employment-based sponsorship.

Benefits

• Hybrid working model, recognizing the value of in-person collaboration and remote working.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Generous bonus scheme and pension.
• Career development and digital learning programs.
• International career mobility.
• Private healthcare and generous parental leave benefits.
• Support for health and wellbeing.