Associate director, modeling - Casualty and Financial Lines Insurance

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If you are excited about this opportunity but do not meet every single requirement, please apply! You still may be a great fit for this role or other open roles. We are seeking candidates who model our values: invest in every relationship, lead with curiosity, champion diverse perspectives, turn inputs into actions, and uphold trust through integrity. 

We need a creative thinker with expertise in mathematical modeling who can find, gather, and organize new streams of data to support our efforts to model the consequences to people, property, and the environment from exposure to hazardous substances and business practices. You will be expected to develop an understanding of our casualty clients and proprietary analytics, and be an integral part of the team building new models and analytics to solve our clients’ problems.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Carry out research into novel methodologies and introduce them to the model development processes
• Adapt to the changing needs of solutions
• Explore and apply new technologies, particularly in data science, artificial intelligence to enhance modelling as well as improving process efficiencies
• Develop subject matter expertise in casualty risk and serve as the “go to” person within the team as well as in the company for external clients
• Collect, validate and analyse data to inform quantitative models of exposure and damages
• Collaborate with other modellers to design frameworks and deliver solutions for quantifying exposure, damage, and  litigation or other compensation mechanisms as well as develop scenarios.
• Manage the running and first-line quality assurance for various model application production processes
• Presenting work internally and to clients in meetings
• Contribute to thought leadership, publishing blogs, white papers, journals and attend scientific meetings to understand the latest science as well as raise the Moody’s profile

Experience Required

• MSc or PhD in a quantitative discipline such as engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, statistics, computer science, economics or related field)
• 10+ years of experience in quantitative modeling with PhD, 15+ years of experience with Bachelors/Masters
• Experience in mathematical modeling, statistical inference, or agent-based modelling, development and implementation of AI solutions preferred
• Knowledge of statistics and statistical modelling, data science applications is a distinct plus
• Creation/development of mathematical models describing real-world phenomena
• Experience with and mastery of general-purpose programming and scripting languages, such as Python or C# or similar
• Strong analytical skills, ability to work with diverse / complex datasets
• Hands-on experience working with large data sets, from on-boarding through exploratory data analysis and drawing insights is a plus
• Facility with relational databases SQL, data modeling, and data analysis packages
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to work directly with clients as well as internally and describe technical concepts to audiences of varying expertise
• Ability to solve problems thoroughly, quickly, and creatively with an eye for detail
• Commitment to continuous learning and to advancing modelling practices for casualty risk.

About the team

Moody’s casualty is a newly formed sub-segment within the Moody’s Insurance Business Unit responsible for delivering data and analytics to the global casualty insurance market.  This role will report into the model development team responsible for development of casualty model solutions, litigation tracking, research efforts to discover new pathways to litigation, exploration of casualty underwriting, pricing, reserving and risk transfer solutions as well as supporting our customers adopt the solutions.

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody’s Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.