Senior Flood Risk Modeler

Job description

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Your work environment:

The headquarters of the AXA Group (GIE AXA) brings together our corporate activities. It provides guidance and support to subsidiaries around the world, to ensure the coordination and monitoring of the Group's global strategy, the application of its standards, the consistency of commercial approaches and the sharing of best practices. The headquarters gathers approximately 1000 employees and is distinguished by its strong international culture (45 nationalities), which makes it a rich and stimulating place to work.

About the role:

You will join AXA's Group Risk Management Property & Casualty (GRM P&C) department, focusing on technical and actuarial challenges. Within this department, you'll be part of the Natural Catastrophe and Reinsurance team, responsible for analyzing risks, modeling reinsurance structures, and developing in-house models and tools to support the Nat CAT risk management strategy.

As a senior Flood Modeler at AXA, your role will involve:

• Leading the development and evolution of flood model assets
• Working on flood post-event claims analytics and conducting various analyses for flood risks
• Contributing to live CAT event response for flood risks and automation of the report
• Engaging in research and innovation around flood modeling activities
• Providing recurrent training and presentations on flood risk and models to AXA’s entities and various stakeholders at the Group level
• Understanding critical issues regarding flood modeling
• Improving current flood modeling solutions, ensuring quality and sustainability
• Introducing new ideas to improve the flood modeling framework
• Raising awareness among stakeholders about flood risk and modeling

The position also offers the possibility to contribute to transverse P&C risk management and various modeling activities.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Seeking a talented professional in hydrology and hydraulics with the following requirements :

·  Engineering or master’s degree in mathematics, physics, or data science
·  A PhD in relevant scientific discipline (hydraulics, hydrology) would be considered a plus
·  3-5 years of relevant experience
·  Fluent in French and Business English (spoken and written)
·  Autonomous, proactive, and team-oriented with a research-oriented mindset
·  Strong programming and data analysis skills (Python and R)
·  Solid knowledge of hydrology and hydraulics
·  Ability to write clean and robust code
·  Proficiency in writing technical documentation
·  Experience in risk management and/or natural catastrophe modeling is a plus
·  Ability to communicate complex modeling topics to various stakeholders