Research Analyst

With a company culture rooted in collaboration, expertise and innovation, we aim to promote progress and inspire our clients, employees, investors and communities to achieve their greatest potential. Our work is the catalyst that helps others achieve their goals. In short, We Enable Possibility℠.

The Position

The Research Analyst will work within the CAT Modelling and Actuarial teams to maintain and develop financial reporting and underwriting systems that support U.S. SEC financial reporting requirements and the Company’s optimized risk position in regards to its exposure to natural catastrophes and is charged with the assessment of natural hazards (i.e. earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, etc.)

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and document proprietary software packages that integrate third party modelling software with the company’s existing software/databases.
• Software analysis of advanced scientific data to model potential weather linked events.
• Maintain the company’s software and develop methodologies to help the Company in its assessment of its exposure to various losses, including catastrophe risk position by pricing contracts, measuring marginal impact to its portfolio, and ranking them based on profitability.
• Develop and maintain Arch’s financial reporting system in order to assist Actuarial and Financial teams.

Minimum Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• A Master’s Degree and/or in-depth knowledge in applied Mathematics or Statistics would be advantageous
• A degree in Atmospheric or Earth Science, Environmental Science or related field
• Proficiency in SQL and MS Access, Visual Basic and database management systems such as SQL Server or other similar software, as well as well as MS Excel
• Strong analytical, communication and time management skills with the ability to work in a team environment.
• Working knowledge of programing languages such as Python/R would be advantageous.
• Working experience in Data Science would be advantageous.
• Must be able to work outside of normal office hours on a regular basis, including evenings, weekends and public holidays as necessary.
• Knowledge in some of the programing languages below would be valuable for the role:
• SQL, Python/R, C#, and/or JavaScript (React JS)

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