Company Description

We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.

Job Description

Company

Verisk Maplecroft is a global risk intelligence company providing unparalleled insight into sustainability, resilience and ESG issues, underpinned by best-in-class geospatial data and analytics. Verisk Maplecroft’s combination of expert insight and data-driven solutions enable multinational companies, investors, and insurers to identify and successfully manage salient political, economic, human rights, and environmental risks.

As part of the Verisk Analytics family, we are aligned with the world’s leading data analytics organisation. Together, we aim to give our clients the insight they need to make better, data-driven decisions through unrivalled analysis and advice.

Team Profile

Verisk Maplecroft’s Africa team is responsible for developing the company’s analysis and forecasts relating to political and ESG risk issues across sub-Saharan Africa. The team works closely with the broader Global Risk Insight team and Verisk Maplecroft’s Analytics, Climate and Resilience, Human Rights and Sustainable Procurement, and Financial Markets teams to deliver a range of analytical products and services aimed at multinational companies, investors, and insurers.

The Global Risk Insight team contributes to the development and production of our unrivalled geospatial risk exposure datasets, covering 160+ issues and 198 countries globally. The team combines these quantitative tools with deep country expertise to deliver unique commercial insights to our clients.

As a trusted advisor to our clients, Verisk Maplecroft also provides bespoke solutions to companies, institutional investors, insurance firms, governments, and international organisations in a variety of sectors, including natural resources, financial services, and consumer goods. As a key member of our Africa team, you will be involved in ad hoc, research-based consulting projects alongside other responsibilities.

Role Purpose

The team is looking to hire an analyst with an in-depth understanding of the political and ESG risk landscape in sub-Saharan Africa and how it may impact the business environment. The analyst will take the lead in generating data-led and forward-looking analysis of political, regulatory, economic, security and human rights developments across a portfolio of countries within the subcontinent. The analyst will also work closely with the wider Africa team on cross-cutting regional issues.

• Producing high-quality, data-led, and client-relevant analysis on political, regulatory, security, economic, social, and environmental risks across a portfolio of sub-Saharan African countries.
• Providing qualitative inputs into Verisk Maplecroft’s suite of risk indices in accordance with our methodologies and procedures.
• Maintaining several subscription products and working on ad hoc consulting projects.
• Acting as a source of insight for Verisk Maplecroft’s clients via analyst calls, briefings, and presentations.
• Supporting members of the Verisk Maplecroft sales teams with business development activities.
• Developing Verisk Maplecroft’s network of sources and contacts across a portfolio of countries.
• Providing innovative ideas and solutions to support improvements in product offering and internal processes.

Qualifications

Knowledge & Experience

• Master’s degree in international relations, political science, economics, or another relevant field is preferred.
• Robust quantitative skills and experience in data visualisation will be strongly advantageous.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Some professional experience in a relevant field (ideally 2+ years), including political risk analysis, consulting, or journalism is preferred.
• Keen commercial acumen and the ability to think laterally when dealing with clients.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to audiences of different levels of expertise.
• Excellent written and spoken English, particularly in relation to analytical writing.
• Competency in other regional languages (French, Portuguese, Swahili) is a distinct advantage.
• Excels in a collaborative environment which translates into an ability to work with colleagues in multiple locations across different time zones.
• An ability to thrive in an environment of robust peer review.
• Organisational and planning skills and the ability to work independently.
• Experience working with the natural resource, financial and insurance sectors will be a plus.

Additional Information

In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.

For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale. We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.

Everyone at Verisk—from our chief executive officer to our newest employee—is guided by The Verisk Way, to Be Remarkable, Add Value, and Innovate.
• Be Remarkable by doing something better each day in service to our customers and each other
• Add Value by delivering immediate and sustained results that drive positive outcomes
• Innovate by redefining what’s possible, embracing challenges, and pushing boundaries

Verisk Businesses

Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision

Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences

Property Estimating Solutions — offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows the most efficient

Extreme Event Solutions — provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events.

Specialty Business Solutions — provides an integrated suite of software for full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business, helping companies manage their businesses through efficiency, flexibility, and data governance

Marketing Solutions — delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement

Life Insurance Solutions – offers end-to-end, data insight-driven core capabilities for carriers, distribution, and direct customers across the entire policy lifecycle of life and annuities for both individual and group.

Verisk Maplecroft — provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability.

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