AVP, Risk Modeling

Sompo; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Sompo is seeking a risk modelling professional to support catastrophe model validation, changes, and the delivery of model change impact analyses. You will partner with development and regional stakeholders to translate business needs into clear functional requirements and validate solutions through user testing and feedback.

You will own data standards, governance, and reporting dashboards while coordinating risk and regulatory reporting initiatives and cross-functional changes across

Qualifications

• Experience in catastrophe modelling and exposure reporting.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Ability to translate business needs into functional requirements and validate solutions.

Responsibilities

• Support catastrophe model validation, change, and implementation activities with documented methodologies and testing.
• Deliver model change impact analysis and translate findings for stakeholders.
• Communicate model changes and developments to underwriters with timelines and implications.
• Define and validate system and reporting enhancements through business requirements and user testing.
• Own and maintain data standards and governance routines; develop operational dashboards and reporting.
• Act as primary contact for Risk on catastrophe modelling and regulatory reporting.
• Coordinate cross-functional changes and integration efforts across modelling, underwriting, risk, and development teams.
• Support merger integration across legacy modelling approaches and align methodologies and outputs.
• Oversee current priorities including model validation testing, rollout and enhancement requirements.

Job description

Portfolio Projects & Model Change

• Support catastrophe model validation, change, and implementation activities, including documenting methodologies, assumptions, testing approaches, and outcomes.
• Partner with the Portfolio Analytics team to deliver model change impact analysis and translate findings into clear stakeholder insights.
• Communicate model changes and developments to underwriters, providing regular updates on timelines, impacts, and practical implications to support engagement and readiness.

Development & Business Requirements

• Partner with the Development team and regional stakeholders to define, prioritise, and support delivery of system and reporting enhancements by translating business needs into clear functional requirements and helping validate solutions through user testing and feedback.

Transactional Data Standards & Reporting

• Own and maintain the RMSi data dictionary.
• Define, communicate, and promote consistent global data standards and best practices, including data quality checks and governance routines.
• Collaborate with relevant teams to develop and maintain operational dashboards and associated reporting.

Risk Reporting, Regulatory & Lloyd’s Coordination

• Act as the primary point of contact for the Risk function on catastrophe modelling and exposure reporting matters.
• Lead responses to Lloyd’s and other regulatory information requests, ensuring timely delivery and appropriate supporting documentation.
• Coordinate and consolidate recurring and ad hoc reporting requirements across stakeholders.
• Maintain an audit-ready evidence trail and clear documentation standards.

Cross-functional Change & Integration

• Support business change initiatives affecting catastrophe modelling operations, reporting, and governance.
• Document transitional processes, identify gaps and risks, and coordinate remediation activities with modelling, underwriting, risk, regional, and development teams.

Current Priorities

• Marine model validation testing.
• OASIS model rollout and implementation support.
• BOLT enhancement requirements, testing, and stakeholder coordination.
• Merger integration across legacy Aspen and legacy Sompo catastrophe modelling approaches, including alignment of methodologies, data standards, assumptions, and reporting outputs.