Data and Insights Analyst

London. Hybrid working pattern.

Competitive Salary + Bonus & Benefits

Interested in using your business analytics knowledge to assist in the continued growth of an International business?

Markel International (MINT) are looking for a Data and Insights Analyst to join our Portfolio Development Solutions (PDS) team within our Wholesale Division. You will assist in providing valuable insights, solutions, services and operational improvements across MINT Wholesale through the use of data & insights. The core part of your role will be to improve and augment underwriting and claims enabling data driven decision making. It will also include creating business MI for the various other support functions. Activities include, but are not limited to, data analysis, automation of data flows, creating tooling and visualisation solutions.

The PDS team sits across all areas within the Wholesale business, which operates across London and Asian platforms. It is embedded within the underwriting business and is represented within the Wholesale Leadership Team. It concentrates on the areas that are key in achieving profitability and performance targets for a specialty lines insurer: Data and Insights, Portfolio Management and Pricing Model development.

The team provides support to the following Divisions within MINT Wholesale:

Marine & Energy provides coverage for liability, hull, war, terrorism, specie, cargo risks, all aspects of upstream, midstream and downstream oil and gas activities as well as renewable energy.
Professional and Financial Risks (PFR) and Cyber underwrites business worldwide and covers traditional and emerging professional indemnity, management liability, financial institutions, specialist risk areas such as patents and libel & slander, as well as many differing types of business and industry areas for cyber coverage.
Trade Credit, Political Risk and Surety (TCPRS) underwrites a variety of trade and investment-related risks using expert knowledge of commercial counterparty and country risks across a wide range of trade sectors and geographies.
Equine provides coverage for Bloodstock and Livestock risks worldwide.

What you’ll be doing:

Develop business analytics solutions across all areas of the Wholesale division, supporting the Data, Analytics and Insights pillar in PDS.
Design and implement automated reporting solutions. Be an advocate for the utilisation of data to support decision making.
Develop strategic tools and practical insights to enable better underwriting and claims decisions that will augment existing processes.
Maintain and develop data models using industry standard coding.
Maintain and update business intelligence dashboards in Power BI.
Source new data and create conformed views of data in the PDS SQL server. Assist in database management and administration.
Represent the PDS team, as appropriate, providing accurate and timely management information to MINT leadership, wholesale leadership and meetings as the need arises.
Work with other functional areas including: actuarial, IT, finance, underwriting operations, legal and regulatory, compliance, credit control, reinsurance, delegated and underwriting support services to resolve issues and support the achievement of PDS and wholesale business priorities.

What we’re looking for:

Business analytics: Experience creating business insights and automated reporting solutions. Be comfortable working with data visualisation programmes such as Power BI, Tableau or Qlik. Power BI is the tool used at Markel.
Experience of coding in DAX, Power Query (M-Language) and creating data models within Power BI preferred. DW experience with Kimball methodology a plus.
Database development: Be able to transform and summarise data in SQL. Knowledge of database maintenance and administration a plus.
Automation: Have a process improvement mentality. Have experience implementing process automation.
Excel: Possess a thorough understanding of Excel and be comfortable with manipulating, analysing and visualising large, complex data sets.
Have demonstrable experience in influencing and engaging with business partners using effective communication and interpersonal skills to acquire their consensus.
Organised with ability to multi-task.
Adaptable and comfortable with fast pace and shifting priorities.

About Markel:

Markel Corporation (NYSE – MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

In each of our businesses, we seek to deliver innovative products and adaptable customer service so that we can be a market leader. Our time horizon is long-term, our approach is disciplined, and our focus is on continuously improving the quality of the customer experience.

What’s in it for you?

A very competitive basic salary plus bonus & benefits.
25 days’ holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy / sell extra leave.
Company matched pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, Green car benefit scheme, a cycle2work scheme, season ticket loan, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), parental, adoption and shared parental leave pay…..and plenty more.
Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts and cash back on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology.
Depending on the role there is the possibility of working from both the office and from home (hybrid) and flexible working requests are supported.
You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere within Markel.
You’ll be joining a global network of experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple teams and countries. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that.

What we hope you’ll do next:

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic.

We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer which means we want to ensure that you have a positive experience applying for a role at Markel and are able to perform at your best. If there are any adjustments we can reasonably make to ensure that the process is accessible for you at every stage please contact us on: rec@markel.com.

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