Medior Risk Modeller (Insurance)

Location: The Hague, Netherlands; hybrid working

Salary: €5,339–€7,119 per month based on 36 hours, depending on knowledge and experience.

Company

hirify.global is a Dutch financial services company supporting more than 18 million customers and working on the Netherlands' vital interests.

What you will do

• Analyse historical insurance data for completeness, accuracy, and representativeness in internal model applications.
• Develop, calibrate, and substantiate quantitative risk model methodologies, assumptions, and expert judgements.
• Assess model performance through sensitivity analyses, backtesting, and other quantitative analyses, documenting methodology and calibration clearly and audibly.
• Explain methodological choices, assumptions, limitations, and model results to actuarial users, independent reviewers, Model Validation, the Actuarial Function Holder, and DNB.
• Critically review technical model implementations, including Python code, and develop shadow tooling and controls to verify calculations and results.
• Take responsibility for models or model components from methodological development and calibration through implementation, governance, and stakeholder challenge; depending on experience, coordinate colleagues and coach junior team members.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Econometrics, Mathematics, Actuarial Science, or a comparable quantitative discipline, combined with relevant experience in quantitative, risk, or capital modelling.
• Strong understanding of statistical and quantitative modelling methods, including the ability to critically assess and develop methodologies, assumptions, and expert judgements.
• Ability to clearly explain and substantiate complex analyses and methodological choices to actuarial users, independent reviewers, and supervisory authorities.
• Experience with Python or similar quantitative programming languages and the ability to understand and critically review quantitative model implementations.
• Collaborative and proactive working style, with the ability to build effective relationships across Risk, Finance, and the business.

Nice to have

• Experience with non-life insurance, Solvency II and internal models, insurance data, actuarial modelling, or model validation.
• Strong quantitative modelling skills and the ability to learn quickly are valued even when every preferred qualification is not met.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working in an inclusive, collaborative, and relatively young team of nine professionals.
• Permanent or fixed-term contract with a 36-hour working arrangement.
• 13th-month payment, holiday allowance, 27 vacation days for a five-day working week, and three Diversity Days.
• Modern pension administered by BeFrank, training and learning opportunities, and home-office and internet allowances.
• NS Business Card 2nd class with unlimited travel, including private travel, or reimbursement for kilometres travelled by private transport.

Hiring process

• Questions about the job can be directed to Paul Fieten by phone or WhatsApp; process questions can be directed to Natalia Szymanski by email.