Position - Weather Analyst

Contract - Permanent

Location - Sydney

READY FOR ANYTHING

At IAG, we live and work by our purpose to make your world a safer place. We are motivated by a unique culture that celebrates honesty, creativity, empathy, equity and collaboration. We call it the IAG way, and it means we all share a ‘ready for anything' mindset that sets the tone for positive actions and positive outcomes. We put heart into everything we do which guides us to create amazing things for our customers, our people and our communities.

We're brimming with ideas, ambition and a readiness to apply bold thinking and risk awareness to make a difference where it matters most.

As the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand, we own some of the region's most trusted brands, including NRMA Insurance, CGU, SGIO, SGIC and WFI. We are ready for anything.

Job description:

The purpose of the role and your unique contribution is to provide timely, accurate and professional weather insights for IAG's operations - this includes major event preparation, support, classification, reporting, post-event analyses and loss reserving. This role will also utilise weather and natural perils information to enhance IAG's natural peril pricing models. You will be part of a market-leading team that is responsible for delivering natural peril pricing and insights across the IAG Group.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountability 1 - to assist with technical development of natural peril (especially meteorological perils) risk models for reinsurance, capital, pricing and claims purposes that address critical gaps in understanding.
  
• Accountability 2 - to assist in weather event classification and reporting
  
• Accountability 3 - to assist in the preparation of short-, medium- and long-term weather outlooks and analytical tools that enable the business to efficiently prepare and respond to major weather events
  

• Accountability 4 - to assist with major weather event loss reserving and post-event analyses
  
• Accountability 5 - to identify, understand and apply relevant and latest climate change and meteorological sciences for the purposes of improving IAG's perils pricing, community risk mitigation and strategy development.
  

Skills & Experience

• Experience in severe weather forecasting, monitoring, reporting and analyses
  

• Experience in utilising natural perils information for re/insurance analyses
  
• Experience in working with big and complex data
  
• Tertiary qualification/s majoring in meteorology, atmospheric science, natural hazards, applied mathematics, actuarial science, statistics, data analytics or related fields
  

Desired Experieces:

• Experience in statistical software packages
• Experience in database management tools
• Experience in geospatial software packages (QGIS, ArcGIS or Mapinfo)
• Experience in catastrophe model development
• Experience in working in cross-function/team projects

Ready for anything? Let's talk.

Start your career journey with us and click ‘Apply'! Applications close on the 24th January 2023.

IAG rewards and recognises its people with generous benefits, career development opportunities and real work-life balance. Employees also enjoy 13% superannuation, up to 50% insurance discounts, flexible work and leave options, generous parental leave and return to work programs, various corporate partner discounts and a people-focused culture that celebrates achievements big and small.

Creating a workforce that actively embraces diversity, inclusion and a sense of belonging is key to our success. We believe in treating everyone fairly which means that inclusion, removing barriers, striving for equity and embracing diversity are woven through our values and behaviours. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities and are committed to providing a work environment that enables you to thrive, whatever your circumstances. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements please advise us via your application.

IAG has committed to the reconciliation movement in Australia for First Nations people and focus on providing a safe and supportive work environment for all our employees. More information on our Reconciliation Action Plan can be found on our company website.

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