Analyst Insurance-linked Strategies - London London, England
Neuberger Berman
Full Time
London, England
31111 - 35700 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
About Neuberger Berman:
Neuberger Berman, founded in 1939, is a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager. The firm manages a range of strategies—including equity, fixed income, quantitative and multi-asset class, private equity, real estate, and hedge funds—on behalf of institutions, advisors, and individual investors globally. With offices in 38 cities worldwide, Neuberger Berman’s diverse team has over 2,500 professionals. For eight consecutive years, the company has been named first or second in Pensions & Investments Best Places to Work in Money Management survey (among those with 1,000 employees or more). In 2020, the
PRI
named Neuberger Berman a Leader, a designation awarded to fewer than 1% of investment firms for excellence in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) practices. The PRI also awarded Neuberger Berman an A+ in every eligible category for our approach to ESG integration across asset classes. The firm manages $418 billion in client assets as of June 20, 2022.
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Position Overview:
Neuberger Berman and its insurance-linked strategies team (“NB ILS”) are seeking an Analyst. NB ILS specializes in insurance-linked investments, with a focus on natural event risk strategies via ILWs, catastrophe bonds & other risk-transfer instruments including parametric insurance.
The role will sit within the NB ILS analytics function as part of a team of four.
The role will involve liaising with all the team’s members located in London, New York and Bermuda, whilst providing support for activities across underwriting, portfolio management and investor relations. The role sits at the intersection between catastrophe risk modeling and data analytics, with room for the individual to use their own experience to improve and expand current risk modeling techniques used by the team. The role would suit a driven individual with previous catastrophe modeling experience, an innovative approach to problem solving, and a desire to work in the ILS investor space.
Key Responsibilities:
- Providing analytical support to underwriters, traders, and portfolio managers.
- Assisting with the analysis and modeling on catastrophe reinsurance and retrocession opportunities, capital market transactions and other risk-transfer products.
- Using third party vendor models, as well as proprietary tools, to effectively extract, manipulate and visualize data to support transaction and portfolio level decisions.
- Maintaining and analysing data sources used to manage portfolio risk exposures, track real-time event losses, and investor reports.
- Contributing to the suite of proprietary analytical tools developed by the team.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 2 years’ relevant experience working in asset management, insurance and/or reinsurance is preferred but applications from another related industry (e.g., catastrophe modeling)
- A master’s degree, with a concentration in science, mathematics, statistical techniques, or computer science.
- Knowledge of financial markets is helpful but not required. However, a willingness to expand knowledge of financial markets is required – eg CFA or similar
- Coding/data manipulation (Advanced Excel, R, SQL, or Python) experience is preferred.
Who you are:
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills complemented by a solid grounding working with and interpreting statistics.
- Excellent attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and ability to prioritize work within a dynamic, deadline-driven environment.
- Highly motivated, with a desire to work on a wide range of projects and contribute to a collaborative, entrepreneurial and conscientious culture.
- Excellent inter-personal skills, a desire to network and work across the organization , confident, highly motivated and organized, team player, but able to operate under their own initiative.
- Enthusiastic & willingness to learn.
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