Team Lead/Consultant-Catastrophe Underwriting

Job Description

Skill required: Catastrophe Underwriting - Catastrophe Underwriting ResearchDesignation: Team Lead/ConsultantJob Location: BengaluruQualifications: Any GraduationYears of Experience: 7-11 yearsAbout Accenture OperationsIn todays business environment, growth isnt just about building value-its fundamental to long-term business survival. So how do organizations sustain themselves The key is a new operating model -one thats anchored around the customer and propelled by intelligence to deliver exceptional experiences across the enterprise at speed and at scale. You will deliver breakthrough business outcomes for clients-by harnessing talent, data and intelligence to revolutionize their operating models. Operations is one of four services that make up one Accenture -the others are Strategy and Consulting, Interactive and Technology. Visit us at www.accenture.comWhat would you do You will be aligned to our Financial Services, Banking, Insurance, and Capital Market vertical which is focused on helping clients with their operations & investment portfolios.This team is responsible for providing insurance account data entry, enhancement, coding, and modeling support to underwriting and regional catastrophe teams globally. They help in processing submission data files within stipulated time frames by entering them into account modeling systems, translating, coding to model recognizable format(s), assessing, correcting location addresses and geocoding using Google. The team helps in modeling one or more different policy structures per account, and multiple options as requested by the underwriter. Modeling accounts to estimate catastrophe losses from all perils using multiple catastrophe models and provide catastrophe modeling results to support the pricing and underwriting process.You will be working as a part of a dynamic research and development team comprising people with diverse backgrounds, such as natural hazards, atmospheric sciences, engineering, flood modeling, etc. This position will be responsible for conducting research and developing cutting-edge underwriting and portfolio management solutions for risk assessment from atmosphere/weather-related perils - tropical and extra-tropical cyclones, tornado/hail, winter storms, and wildfire, etc. You will be working on catastrophe risk models to perform in-depth validation of hazard and vulnerability components of tropical/extra-tropical cyclones, tornado/hail, winter storms, wildfire catastrophe models from RMS and AIR. You would be responsible for developing, tuning, and updating internal natural hazard-related datasets/models and risk management tools and interact with internal and external stakeholders to communicate the established view of risk.What are we looking for We are looking for individuals who have the following skillset:

• Hands-on experience with trouble-shooting
• Strong analytical skills

It would be a value add if you are proficient in:

• Data Science

Roles and Responsibilities

• In this role, you need to analyze and solve moderately complex problems
• You are required to create new solutions, leveraging and, where needed, adapting existing methods and procedures
• You are required to understand the strategic direction set by senior management, clearly communicate team goals, deliverables, and keep the team updated on change
• Your primary upward interactions are with your direct supervisor
• You may interact with peers and/or management levels at a client and/or within Accenture
• You will be provided with guidance when determining methods and procedures on new assignments
• The decisions that are made by you will often impact your team
• You would be an individual contributor and/or oversee a small work effort and/or team.

Please note this role may require you to work in rotational shifts.,

Keyskills :
risk management toolsresearchdevelopmentdata entryrisk modelscapital marketrisk managementrisk assessmenthelping clientsnatural hazardsbusiness processsenior managementstatements of work sow