Job Description
Job Purpose:
To assist in the production of high-quality economic research and reports, data collection for use in the group’s country risk framework, economic data analysis, and presenting to internal stakeholders on the group’s view of key country risk trends and developments.
The Economic Research and Analysis Group (Country Risk Group) researches and analyzes the political, economic, and insurance industry environments of approximately 150 countries. This analysis is used to identify country-specific factors that could adversely affect an insurer’s ability to meet its financial obligations.
AM Best’s Country Risk Group is headquartered in Oldwick, New Jersey, and the team consists of two economists. The group works closely with the other offices in the US, Europe and Asia.
Responsibilities:
Run and curate python and excel programmes that produce key credit rating metrics: Country Risk Tiers, Country Investment Classes, Transfer and Convertibility Risk, National Scale Ratings and others-
1. Take charge of data downloads and formatting of over a hundred variables that feed into the metric-producing programmes.
2. Update and extend as necessary an extensive suite of python programmes including a custom-built python module
3. Models involve heavy integration with excel th...