Senior Consultant - London, United Kingdom - Risk Management Solutions (RMS)

Description

Senior Consultant

London, UK


About Us

Do you want to solve wide ranging analytical and business problems in a fascinating growth market with real societal impact? Then this is the role for you The Consulting Services team at Moody's RMS has a proven track record in helping organizations to measure, manage and transfer their catastrophe risk.

Our clients range from insurers, reinsurers and brokers to investment portfolio managers, financial institutions, governments, and corporates.

We work closely with clients to deliver a wide range of analytical, advisory and technology services and solutions, including:

• Assessment of business best practices for risk management, transition / implementation and optimization of workflows relating to Moody's RMS products
• Consulting around risks facing society, including natural and manmade catastrophes, climate change and ESG, systemic risks
• Risk transfer consulting and optimization, including ILS and catastrophe bonds
• Emerging use cases for risk analytics as these become strategic priorities for Moody's RMS and our clients.

Consulting Services operates at the forefront of defining best practices for the quantification and management of risk.

Joining this team offers an opportunity to drive the growth of a unique and fascinating market and help build resilience to the challenges society faces today.

Objective of the role:

A Senior Consultant is the face of our projects and owns the success - ultimately ensuring that the client's objectives have been achieved through the delivery of the solution / advisory work.

While this person is responsible for directing all the functional work of the project, the role requires visibility into all areas of the project (technical, quality assurance, and project management).

This visibility ensures that the proposed or implemented solution meets the client's needs (whether it is a model analytic, advisory, or implementation project).

For smaller projects, a Senior Consultant will work side-by-side with a junior consultant or analyst to help create project artifacts and deliverables.

For larger / complex projects that may have multiple workstreams, the Senior Consultant will direct the activities of junior consultants and analysts who perform the detailed work.

Regardless, this person must be aware of all project details and is accountable for the quality of all functional artifacts and deliverables.

Across all project types, a Senior Consultant works directly with clients at all levels.

In addition to project work, a Senior Consultant uses his/her network alongside marketing and sales activities to identify and drive consulting opportunities to signed contracts.

This person also uses market knowledge and expertise on catastrophe analytics to develop and drive go to market materials for new service offerings.

Key Accountabilities & Deliverables

• Once established in the role, a Senior Consultant is responsible for delivering solutions for
  business transformation projects with some oversight from senior leaders in the Consulting Services team. This person uses knowledge of industry best practices and RMS and Moody's software, data, models, and services to deliver high quality recommendations and solutions that either address existing client challenges or help clients create more value.

Previous business transformation project examples include:

• Assisting reinsurers, insurers and brokers to seamlessly transition from RiskLink or Touchstone to Moody's RMS Intelligent Risk Platform, ensuring they realize the value as quickly as possible.
• Helping an EU insurer quantify the business value and what is involved in bringing modelling inhouse for the first time e.g. ROI of switching to an internal model rather than standard formula.
• In addition to delivering business transformation projects, a Senior Consultant can deliver
  model analytic projects using RMS models and software to help clients address unique challenges or opportunities

Previous project examples include:

• Partnering with customers to respond to the latest Bank of England climate change stress tests
• Working with re/insurers to quantify their exposure to cyber or climate risk for the first time
• Consulting with a major U.S. bank to understand the climatedriven default risk prevalent in mortgagebacked securities and quantify the impact of climate change
• Work closely with sales colleagues to drive Consulting Services opportunities and win projects.
• Responsible for scoping and estimating projects to inform resource estimates and commercial proposals to clients. Drive the development of project work orders, working closely with sales, technical, and project management colleagues.
• Lead client meetings, including interviews and workshops, and meetings with executive sponsors and steering committees, as needed to deliver an engagement. In interactions with client stakeholders, a Senior Consultant advises executives on sol