Manager, Natural Perils

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**Manager, Natural Perils | Location - Flexible, Sydney preferred**
- Bring your positive and energetic leadership style to a global insurer
- Lead the team managing natural perils risk
- Allianz is a Flex Ready employer, flexible working options are available

**What if new and different could be your new normal?**

We are looking for a
**Manager for Natural Perils **to join our Pricing & Analytics team. Reporting to the General Manager for Pricing & Data Analytics, you will be asked to lead the management of natural perils risks to the general insurance industry, including supporting the underwriting, rating, pricing and exposure management of natural perils.

**You'll be responsible for**:

- Drive technical excellence by enhancing data, pricing and underwriting capability in natural perils modelling, particularly for riverine flood, overland run-off, cyclone, storm surge, bushfire, earthquake and storm.
- Lead the continual refinement of assessing natural peril risk, recognising technological advances, a changing climate and continuous improvement in available external data by identifying, evaluating and sourcing external data to enhance Allianz capability.
- Lead the embedment of Geographic Information Systems in business as usual processes to better understand and manage natural peril risk, in line with Group requirements.
- Develop and lead activities to broaden the knowledge base of natural perils within Allianz, including the capability development which addresses changing requirements.
- Lead the development and execution of natural perils initiatives as part of supporting the Allianz Social Impact strategy, Global climate initiatives and ICA industry initiatives.
- Provide insights relating to natural perils to internal stakehokders to inform business decision-making.
- Provide the technical oversight of natural perils to underwriting agencies and other Allianz entities, and ensure alignment with key legislative reforms and recommendations by regulators.
- Lead the review of underwriting frameworks and controls including catastrophe and post loss reviews.

**Important to your success**:

- Tertiary qualification in actuarial studies, mathematics or other relevant discipline.
- Experience in a leadership role in one or more of the following: general insurance, catastrophe modelling, reinsurance, geographic information systems, acquired in a general insurance organisation.
- Ideally proven success as a leader of people with experience guiding, mentoring and/or coaching colleagues, driving a high performance culture.
- Highly developed data analytics skills, using relevant software and Geographic Information Systems tools.
- Highly developed consulting and influencing skills, demonstrating the ability to co-create strategy and valuable solutions with key business stakeholders.
- Proven analytical and critical thinking capability to interpret a range of data, identify patterns, trends and links that inform judgements and solutions.
- Ability to interpret and analyse complex information, extract meaningful insights and evaluate options for decision making.
- Ability to plan and prioritise effectively, organise tasks and manage competing resources and demands.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of communicating with audiences at all levels with clarity, impact and influence.

**What's on offer?**
- Access on-demand lifelong learning and take control of your career development.
- Learn through being supported and encouraged to take on new challenges that will help you to develop new skills
- Be part of a team that's open-minded, supportive, approachable and genuinely focused on customer outcomes
- We understand about work-life balance, we are always willing to discuss flexible & remote working options with our employees.
- Access a range of benefits, such as discounts at retailers, travel firms, health insurers, gyms and financial institutions, alongside a significant discount on Allianz insurance products.

**About us**

Allianz is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

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