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PikaGuard is hiring experienced people to join a small team of Imperial College London graduates and qualified actuaries. The team measures what each risk costs a client and shows the client the full breakdown.

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Each role below requires at least 10 years’ experience, and the Commercial Risk Model Director at least 15.

Commercial Risk Model Director

You will direct the risk-costing team, which measures what each risk costs a client business. You set the team’s priorities, own the models it uses, and sign off the figures that go to clients.

What you will do

Set the risk-costing team’s priorities and review its work.
Own the models that measure each risk a client carries: the risk cost, the range around it, and the assumptions behind both.
Enforce independent replication, so that no figure reaches a client before it has been rebuilt from a separate source.
Decide how the team reconciles data sources that disagree, and record the reasons.
Hold each recommended structure to our minimum success rate of 99.5% before PikaGuard puts its name to it.
Review each client’s models as the business changes, and say when capital can be released or an exposure has grown enough to need cover.
Explain the results to clients and to the sales team in terms a client can act on.

What you bring

At least 15 years’ experience building, validating or approving pricing or risk models for commercial insurance or reinsurance.
Experience leading a team of modellers or actuaries.
A degree in mathematics, statistics, actuarial science, physics or a related subject. An actuarial qualification is an advantage.
The habit of testing a figure against a separate source before you rely on it.
Clear writing: you can explain a probability to a finance director who is not a statistician.

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National Sales Director (United Kingdom)

You will win PikaGuard’s clients and partners across the United Kingdom, and keep them after the first sale.

What you will do

Find and win client businesses, from owner-run firms to multinationals.
Build partnerships with brokers, advisers, platforms and associations, and agree each one’s terms: the offer, how the revenue is shared, and whose name it carries.
Take prospective clients through a worked example on a real asset.
Confirm with the risk-costing team that a market or sector can be priced before you sell into it.
Report to each partner regularly on its network: who has been priced, which policies are up for renewal, and where exposure has grown or fallen.
Sell the analysis on its merits. Nobody at PikaGuard is paid more when a client buys more cover.

What you bring

At least 10 years’ experience winning business clients in the United Kingdom, for insurance, risk analysis or a comparable financial service.
Working relationships with brokers, advisers or business associations in the United Kingdom.
Enough command of insurance to explain an excess, a limit and an insurer’s loading to a finance director.
Comfort presenting a range and its probabilities rather than a single number.

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Compute Architecture Manager

You will design and run PikaGuard’s compute cluster and its database, and plan both as the work grows.

What you will do

Run the compute cluster that the risk models use: capacity, scheduling, cost and uptime.
Run the database: schema changes, backups, restores, upgrades and performance.
Control access to client data, including the financial statements clients upload.
Make each figure a client sees traceable to the data and the model run that produced it.
Plan capacity with the Commercial Risk Model Director as clients and model runs grow.
Write the recovery plan for the cluster and the database, and test it.

What you bring

At least 10 years’ experience designing and running a compute cluster for modelling or analytical work in production.
Experience administering a production database, including restores from backup.
Experience defining infrastructure in code, so each change is reviewed before it runs.
Experience securing systems that hold confidential client financial data.
The habit of writing runbooks another engineer can follow without you.

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How to apply

Each role has its own application form, which asks for your name, email address, telephone number and CV. For a question about a role, write to [email protected].

How we work.

Independent replication

We rebuild every figure from a separate source before a client sees it. We test for that habit when we hire, and do not take it on trust from a CV.

Sources that disagree

Most of the risk-costing team’s work is finding, cleaning and reconciling sources that disagree, asset by asset, and recording why it chose one over the others.

Analysis a client can act on

Clients act on how we explain a result. Making a probability concrete enough to act on is as much the job as producing it.

The directors’ experience, and the 20% of PikaGuard’s profit that goes to charities supporting education for underprivileged people, are set out on the About page.