Senior Catastrophe Risk Analyst
Company: WTW
Role summary
Senior Catastrophe Risk Analyst is a full-time role at WTW in Ipswich, England, United Kingdom (hybrid). Posted 2026-08-26. Experience level: 5-10.
- Job title
- Senior Catastrophe Risk Analyst
- Company
- WTW
- Location
- Ipswich, England, United Kingdom
- Work arrangement
- hybrid
- Employment type
- full-time
- Category
- Software Engineering
- Experience level
- 5-10
- Date posted
- 2026-08-26
You would be joining a global team where you can really make an impact by modeling complex risks and helping clients prepare for the unexpected. It is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys analytical puzzles and wants to work in a stable, high-level insurance environment that values deep expertise.
Job description
In this role, the individual will work closely with Brokers in the Global Markets Direct and Facultative team to deliver market leading analytics. The Direct & Fac Data and Analytics team offer a wide range of analytical support to the broking team in order to secure the best results for our clients. Typical analytical support includes data management, catastrophe modelling, exposure management, financial modelling, and bespoke analytics. The focus of our team is to provide brokers with a deeper understanding of their clients risk from natural and man-made perils such as windstorm, earthquake, severe convective storm, flood and wildfire.
The Role:
On a day-to-day basis, the individual will be involved in processing and auditing client data, running client portfolios against state-of-the-art catastrophe models, and synthesising the results. They will be required to take a methodical approach to problem solving and be proactive in meaningfully contributing to the success of D&F. Joining the company with a maths, statistics, engineering or natural sciences degree (ideally Masters), they also require the ability to effectively communicate technical details to a non-technical audience.
Managing, auditing, processing and analysing portfolio data, preparing it for model ingestion
Quantify the catastrophe risk using vendor catastrophe models
Operation of geo-visualisation tools including Arc GIS
Understand and evaluate the impact of updates and revisions to models and the outputs produced
Communicate results effectively to all stakeholders (i.e. cat modellers / brokers / clients/ (re)insurers)
Work closely with all stakeholders throughout the risk quantification process
Real-time reporting and analysis of natural catastrophes