
data analyst London, England
Job description
Closing date: 25th June 2023
The opportunity:
Do you have a curious and analytical mindset? Do you want to lead and build a key part of Zurich’s future? Have you ever wondered how insurers mitigate the risk of catastrophic events? If you’re passionate about improving processes and driving data-lead insights and decision making, we would love to hear from you!
In this newly created role, you’ll join our Exposure Management team within Central Underwriting as a Data Analyst. You’ll directly support the Head of Exposure Management and Senior Data Analyst to shape and deliver the data-driven insight strategy to enable Zurich to understand and manage its accumulation and catastrophe risk exposures across its entire UK Property & Casualty business.
While a background in insurance would be advantageous don’t worry if you don’t have experience of the insurance industry, if you have the key skills, a positive mindset and are motivated we can teach you on the job!
You’ll proactively work with UK and Group stakeholders to significantly enhance existing exposure management processes and create a step change in the monitoring and reporting of UK exposures. You’ll also be responsible for deploying statistical techniques to identify and predict trends in current and future portfolio exposures across all lines of business.
Many of our employees work flexibly in a variety of different ways, including part-time, flexible hours, job share, an element of working from home or compressed hours. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren’t available full-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.
What will you be doing?
- Define, create and deliver reports and visualizations to enhance exposure management practice and communicate insights and findings to stakeholders
- Use predictive analytical techniques to identify and predict exposure and accumulation trends in the UK’s current and future portfolio mix
- Seek out opportunities to enhance the quality of data and insight while incorporating automation and efficiency within the team.
- Establish, maintain, and grow strong, collaborative relationships with key internal and external partners to drive ongoing improvements to exposure management and the wider business
We're looking for someone with a background in data and analytics who can work with multiple stakeholders across different departments with strong communication and influencing skills.
You will also need to demonstrate:
Essential
- Working Experience in a data related role
- Ability to interrogate, manipulate and manage large data sets
- Experience with SQL
- Experience with R or Python
- Experience of both data preparation and data visualisation
- Strong analytical and logical mindset
- Insight production and storytelling
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- High degree of flexibility with ability to work within deadlines and manage priorities
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office including Excel and PowerPoint
- Knowledge of Property & Casualty underwriting
- Knowledge of Exposure management processes
- Experience using PowerBI or Qlik desirable
- Ability to coach and develop others
- Experience in challenging and influencing others
Who we are:
About Zurich Insurance
CEO: Mario Greco
Revenue: $10+ billion (USD)
Size: 1001 to 5000 Employees
Type: Company - Private
Website: www.zurich.co.uk
Year Founded: 1872