About the Company

Vantage Group Holdings Ltd. (Vantage) was established in late 2020 as a re/insurance partner designed for the future. Driven by relentless curiosity, our team of trusted experts provides a fresh perspective on our clients’ risks. We add creativity to tech-enabled efficiency and robust analytics to address risks others avoid. Vantage provides specialty re/insurance through its operating subsidiaries in Bermuda and the U.S.

Vantage has approximately 365 colleagues in both the United States and Bermuda. We have offices in Chicago, IL, Norwalk, CT, Arlington, VA, Boston, MA, New York, NY, Atlanta, GA and Hamilton, Bermuda. Additionally, we are a highly geographically diverse workforce with colleagues based in 35 states and counting. We fully support work flexibility including remote and hybrid work arrangements.

Location: US (Hybrid) or Bermuda

About the role:

At Vantage, the AVP, Capital Modeling and Reinsurance Analytics will exemplify and push a data driven approach, combining the very best of risk modeling, actuarial and data science. This individual will provide analytical support and expertise for our Reinsurance business including property, specialty, and financial products, as well as lead and manage our group-wide internal capital modeling. The leader will have experience across a broad range of Specialty and Property product lines and will work closely with the reinsurance team to support analysis and reporting of risk metrics, and will work with risk, underwriting, data, analytics and technology functions to support further development of internal capital framework.

The AVP, Capital Modeling and Reinsurance Analytics will be solutions oriented, with a creative lens to ensure that problems are approached in the most efficient and practical ways. They will need to be a hands-on operator who display capability for scripting languages and have high levels of commitment, energy, and collaboration.

The base salary expectation for this role is between $160, 000 and $200, 000. Actual base salary for the selected candidate may be higher commensurate with candidate experience and expectations. Additionally, Vantage offers its colleagues performance-based bonus potential, strong health & welfare benefits, retirement plans with company match, competitive time off plans, a highly flexible work environment, and much more.

Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

• Enhance risk reporting for reinsurance function, using portfolio analytics, distribution analysis, scenario testing, and modeling. Build automation and/or streamlined processes for reporting.
• Support development of risk models and tools that help assess risk and return of each re/insurance contract and on aggregated portfolio basis, stemming from enterprise-wide functions of the company, e.g.:

• Re/Insurance underwriting risk
• Investment, liquidity, and concentration risk
• Market risk and Credit risk
• Systems, cyber and operations risk (operational risk)
• Group risk, Strategic and reputational risk

• Contribute to methodologies for risk aggregation across risk segments, insurance and reinsurance and enterprise-wide risk groups.
• Connect insights from internal capital modeling results with external capital model results to understand broader capital management across the group.
• Manage or support regular portfolio roll ups for data driven Underwriting.
• Work with Data, Analytics and Technology function to transition developed prototypes into production and help deliver risk modelling platforms capable of repeatable processes supporting underwriting and risk decisions.
• Contribute towards development of reporting dashboards to communicate risk data with risk adjusted metrics, capital /portfolio optimization and feedback on capital utilization into risk tolerances.
• Being part of the Group Risk Function, engage with Underwriting, Reserving, Finance, Data, Analytics & Technology and other Group functions as needed.
• May be required on an ad hoc basis to provide actuarial / expert view on risk assessment for individual exposures or new risks.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• 5+ years’ experience in risk / capital modeling or re/insurance pricing for Specialty, Property Cat and/or Casualty risks.
• Hands on experience designing/building stochastic models for pricing and risk analysis.
• Comfortable using scripting languages (R, Python) for modelling and data analysis.
• SQL, Snowflake is a plus.
• Part-qualified actuary or working towards actuarial designation is a plus.
• Collaborative intellectually curious enthusiastic personality with ‘can do’ attitude and eager to work in a start-up environment and build analytical systems from scratch.
• Strong communication skills.

Our Vantage Values

Do What’s Right – be a force for good, for our customers, shareholders, colleagues, industry and communities.

Be Relentlessly Curious – ask questions, listen to understand, challenge the status quo, look for ways to say YES, drive innovation, be opportunistic and disciplined.

We’re Better Together – collaborate, be inclusive, supportive, respectful and humble, be a trusted partner internally and externally.

Be Transparent – in who you are, what you think, and how you work, seek and provide alternative points of view, be true to yourself.

Make A Difference – focus on impact, embrace technology, leverage data and analytics as critical assets, act intentionally to deliver on our mission.