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About the Role
This 9-month role offers the opportunity to influence how AXA XL understands, manages and reports Cat risk across a global portfolio, supporting senior decision-making, regulatory confidence and portfolio steering.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and enhancement of the DFA model used to evaluate Cat risk across AXA XL.
- Drive the development and ongoing maintenance of AXA XL’s Cat risk appetite framework, ensuring robust reporting, clear governance and active monitoring against agreed risk appetites.
- Own the delivery of quarterly Cat risk reporting for AXA XL and its legal entities, providing clear, value-added insight into the evolving portfolio and key risk drivers.
- Lead the annual risk budget process for future-year Cat exposure, supporting informed portfolio planning and strategic decision-making.
- Partner with the Ceded Reinsurance team to analyse and optimise the natural catastrophe ceded programme against the planned risk profile.
- Play a key role in Cat event response activities, developing timely loss estimates and insight against AXA XL’s underwriting portfolio.
- Deliver Cat risk regulatory requirements, including model analysis and exposure reporting for established regulatory returns as well as ad hoc requests.
- Work closely with AXA Group to ensure relevant Group requirements are understood, embedded and delivered effectively.
- Prepare and present clear, actionable Cat risk insight to senior management and key stakeholders.
- Build effective relationships across AXA XL, AXA Group and the wider market to enhance understanding of Cat risk and emerging risk trends.
- Champion Cat risk awareness across the organisation, helping embed risk-informed thinking into business planning and decision-making.
Requirements
- Outstanding analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and provide practical insight.
- Good understanding of Cat risk, exposure management, risk modelling or a related insurance risk discipline.
- Comfortable working with statistics, probability and uncertainty in risk analysis.
- Knowledge of commercial lines insurance and the wider insurance or reinsurance industry.
- Influential communication skills, with the ability to explain technical topics clearly to senior stakeholders.
- Highly organised, detail-focused and able to manage priorities under time pressure.
Skills
- DFA tools
- capital models
- risk aggregation
- pricing models
- catastrophe vendor models
- Moody’s RMS
- Verisk
- CoreLogic
- Cat risk regulatory returns
- risk appetite reporting
- risk budgeting
- reinsurance structuring
- event response
- portfolio monitoring
- presenting risk insight to senior audiences
- managerial experience
- coaching experience
- project leadership experience
Location
- London, United Kingdom
Work Type
- 9 Months FTC
Benefits
- Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements.
- Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits.
- AXA Hearts in Action: Volunteering and charitable giving programs.
- Matching Gifts program
- Volunteering Leave
- Global Day of Giving
About the Company
- AXA XL is the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, known for solving complex risks.
- We combine a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.
- With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.
- Sustainability is integral to our business strategy.
- Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called “Roots of resilience”, focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations.
- Pillars: Valuing nature, Addressing climate change, Integrating ESG.
- AXA Hearts in Action: Volunteering and charitable giving programs.
Equal Opportunity
- AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
- At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture enables business growth and is critical to our success.
- We have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential.
- Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
- Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index.
- Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter.