This is a full-time role for an individual with strong analytical, numerical/statistical, scientific, or civil/structural engineering background to join the Strategic Risk Consulting team (part of Risk & Analytics) at WTW as a Senior Analyst for climate and catastrophe risk impact assessments. Apart from participating in consulting projects this senior role will also have responsibility to develop relationships with clients and prospects, as well as a target for new business development (project sales).

The candidate would be joining a team of industry leading experts spanning across the fields of insurance, science, and engineering with the aim of providing unrivalled analytical risk and risk engineering services. This exciting opportunity comes with various technical challenges which are as diverse as the industries we deal in and involves projects globally.

This is a hybrid opportunity based out of our fantastic office in London.

The Role

• Responsible to work in NatCat and Climate Risk Consulting projects.
• Candidate is expected to have a certain level of technical expertise, such as an engineering background or experience using insurance market recognized cat vendor model analysis such as RMS (Risk Management Solutions).
• Support wider team on a wide range of consulting projects involving the undertaking of climate change risk assessments, catastrophe risk modelling and catastrophe risk engineering assessments, including presentation of findings to internal and external clients.
• The role would also include helping to prepare and present output data from the climate and Nat Cat models to support actuarial analyses and wider Risk & Analytics consulting projects.

Qualifications

The Requirement

• Highly motivated team player and able to thrive in a growing consultancy team environment.
• In depth understanding of the climate and catastrophe risk consulting arena
• Good client-facing / presentation skills
• Strong analytical, engineering-, construction, science- and/or mathematical-based background with interest in natural hazard and climate risk (including earthquake, wind, and flood).
• Climate scientist, practical knowledge, and experience of addressing climate change considerations, resilience and adaptation, and climate scenario modelling and analysis.
• Where possible, experience in using third party climate or catastrophe models such as RMS, AIR, RQE, Kat Risk or at least a good level of understanding of probabilistic and catastrophe modelling concepts.
• Day to day tasks will include climate risk and catastrophe risk assessments, data quality assessment of raw data to be fed into catastrophe models, reviews of exposures to Natural Hazards as well as preparation of modelling input files, running of market recognized models such as RMS and the review, interpretation, and validation of the output considering underlying modelling assumptions and their limitations in respect to retail projects.
• An understanding of global climate change science and international decarbonization scenarios as well as best practice approaches to risk assessment and quantification would be preferable.
• Working knowledge of the TCFD and associated frameworks – strongly preferred, but not essential. Good understanding of the climate change related regulatory landscape and taxonomy such as TCFD, IPCC as well as latest developments in ESG

This is a Certification Regime role under the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA’s) Senior Manager and Certification Regime and will be subject to the FCA’s Conduct Rules

At WTW, we believe difference makes us stronger. We want our workforce to reflect the different and varied markets we operate in and to build a culture of inclusivity that makes colleagues feel welcome, valued and empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive work environment throughout our organisation. We embrace all types of diversity