Moody's Insurance Solutions Graduate Program 2025- Model Development

Skills and Competencies:

• Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation ability.
• Ability to communicate analysis results and insights effectively.
• A working knowledge of computer programming languages used in model development (examples include R, Python, Julia, SQL, and Fortran). An adaptability and willingness to learn new languages as required.
• Strong mathematical and statistical foundation.
• Excellent time management and planning skills with a commitment to delivery.
• Driven and committed, demonstrating self-motivation as well as strong team working skills.
• Critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.

Preferred Skills and Competencies:

• Post-graduate work experience.
• Experience and interest in the re/insurance business domain.
• Ability in modern systems of scientific repeatability and engineering scalability (e.g., GitHub).
• Experience with high-performance clusters and strong user skill in a Linux/Unix environment.
• Ability to work in dynamic environment with flexibility of tasks.

Education:

• Master’s or PhD degree, to be completed by September 2025, in a related subject (e.g., Climate Science, Meteorology, Hydrology, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or similar).

Responsibilities:

Analysts in the team work closely with other hazard, vulnerability, exposure, and financial modelers to quantify the loss potential of extreme climate events and to ensure the accuracy, efficiency, and appropriateness of the final modelling product.This role will perform research and development work in climate events and their extreme behavior, including tropical cyclones, inland and coastal floods, severe and winter weather, chronic and acute climate change, and so on. Our graduates build experience through rotations across other development teams including hazard, vulnerability, exposure, and financial modelers - all teams we collaborate with closely to ensure the accuracy, efficiency, and appropriateness of the final modelling product.

About the Graduate Program:

As a graduate, you will establish a diverse and relevant career foundation-gaining insights into our business, exploring opportunities for career advancement, and refining your skills for future growth. Commencing in September 2025, you will join an international group of Moody’s Insurance Solutions graduates. The journey begins with a month-long training session led by our network of top developers, scientists, product managers, customer success experts, and clients. Subsequently, you will engage in our rotation program, obtaining hands-on experience within various teams and disciplines. These rotations will deepen your understanding of our products, their development processes, the companies that utilize them, and the value and insights they provide. Your work will span multiple products and markets, allowing you to enhance technical expertise, problem-solving abilities, and communication skills.

About the Team:

Our Model Development department has over fifty Ph.D. scientists and engineers based in London, building mathematical models that predict the distributions of possible damage due to the effects of tropical storms, extra-tropical storms, thunderstorms, storm-surges, and freshwater floods. We function as a multidisciplinary team of catastrophe modelers including statisticians, mathematicians, physical scientists and engineers, who build models critical to our Re/Insurance clients and essential to the other markets we serve. We use a combination of observations, reanalysis data, numerical, statistical and engineering models. We are the pioneers in the development and application of combined statistical and numerical modelling methods for the quantification of natural hazard risk, and our models are the most detailed and comprehensive models of natural catastrophes produced anywhere in the world.

The rotation program further provides the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the wider Insurance Solutions model offering, including stochastic modelling solutions which forecast financial and economic variables (e.g. interest rates, inflation, exchange rates, equity indices, bond returns, property prices) for a wide variety of applications across life/general insurance, asset management, and wealth/pension industries. Join us in transforming the world's understanding and management of risk. As part of the Moody’s Insurance Solutions Graduate Program, you'll work with the people, teams, and companies leading the way in the use of models, data, analytics, and technology to derive relevant insights across the insurance lifecycle. Our insurance customers use our models, data, analytics, and technology to assess catastrophes, climate, actuarial, economic, asset, and credit risk; it is our role to equip them with the tools and understanding to thrive. As a part of this mission, you are crucial to our future, and we are committed to supporting yours as well.