Director – P&C Climate Risk and Exposure Analytics

Director – P&C Climate Risk and Exposure Analytics

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative analytics field such as Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Actuarial Sciences, Operations Research, Data and/or Business Analysis, Data Science or other quantitative discipline; OR 4 years of related experience in statistics, mathematics or quantitative analytics (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• 8 years of experience in a decision support analytic function OR advanced degree in relevant discipline, 6 years of experience in a decision support analytic function.
• 3 years of direct team lead or management experience.
• Demonstrates expert skills in mathematical and statistical techniques and approaches used to influence business strategy with fact-based decision-making to all levels of leadership up to senior executive levels.
• Modernizes knowledge of data analysis tools, data visualization, developing analysis queries and procedures in SQL, SAS, BI tools or other analysis software, and relevant industry data & methods and ability to connect external insights to business problems.
• Experience with new and emerging data sets, and incorporation (data wrangling, data munging) into new insights.

Responsibilities

• As a strategic partner, leads or collaborates with other analytical leaders in executing the strategic direction of the business using mathematical and statistical techniques and/or innovative/quantitative analytical approaches.
• Develops team reputation as highly skilled experts in the area of climate science support.
• Oversees and coordinates analytical tasks which include the evaluation of the business problem, analytical methodology, validation, documentation and presentation of findings and recommendations.
• Monitors, understands and embraces emerging technology that can affect the application of scientific methodologies and/or quantitative analytical approaches to problem resolutions.
• Identifies additional resource needs ranging from IT investments, 3rd party support or additional analysts and provides business rationale and justification for additional needs.
• Understands the business direction, environment and strategies, to set the analytic and climate risk direction of exploration and builds strategy to execute the approach that will influence business and drive change.
• Leads the effort and/or partners with enterprise analytics teams to build USAA core analytics capabilities and processes.
• Builds and oversees a team of employees for assigned functional area through ongoing execution of recruiting, development, retention, mentor and support, performance management, and managerial activities.
• Assigns and or serves as a mentor for mathematical skills and statistical techniques for climate analysis and guides teams to use the appropriate approaches, to drive fact-based decision-making and strategy development.
• Maintains and innovates knowledge of data analysis tools, data visualization, developing analysis queries and procedures in SQL, SAS, BI tools or other analysis software, and relevant industry data & methods and ability to connect external insights to business problems.
• Researches and pursues the latest and/or industry leading practices in data and analytics, (Ex: Cloud, Data Mining, Python, Neural Networks, Sensor data, IoT, Streaming/NRT data) to advance the overall Climate Risk community knowledge.
• Works with IT/CTO partners to advance new data and platforms that correspond to evolving skill sets.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of climate change risk analysis and modeling. Strong understanding and familiarity with climate science, global and local climate models, and trends in natural weather perils.
• Experience running a climate risk focused team, preferably within a financial services environment.
• Desire to work in an innovative, start-up like environment, setting team direction and establishing and delivering on new processes.
• Comfortable communicating analytical results, findings and solutions to senior leaders and executives.
• Experience driving the development of a long-term view of exposure, given climate driven population migration and developing building standards.
• Experience working with data representing future climate adjusted scenarios to adjust vendor catastrophe models, such as Verisk, KCC or CoreLogic.
• Experience with geospatial analysis software.
• Identifies opportunities to continue to learn in the climate change space, whether informal (E.g., Coursera, Udemy etc.) or formal (E.g. Certifications or advanced coursework, for example GARP SCR).
• Experience with commonly used climate change scenarios, including IPCC and NGFS.