Department
Within the Finance Department, the Risk Partnerships team is responsible for the purchase of retrocession to protect SCOR’s global exposures. Retrocession is a key component of SCOR’s underwriting strategy, ensuring the protection of the Group’s capital while providing underwriters with sufficient capacity to support business growth. The outward protections on which the intern will work aim to cover the worldwide P&C reinsurance treaty portfolio (both proportional and non‑proportional), with a particular focus on Property Catastrophe risks.
The intern will support the team in enhancing the monitoring and management of collateralized contracts, which are critical to effective counterparty risk management and require accurate, timely, and reliable tracking.
This internship will provide the opportunity to gain hands‑on experience with collateralized reinsurance and financial contracts, exposure to risk management and operational processes, and practical involvement in process automation and monitoring tool enhancements.
Depending on the team’s operational needs, the intern may also be asked to assist with additional ad‑hoc tasks.
Under the supervision of the Cat account manager, your will support the Retrocession team mainly on the following tasks:
1. Enhance the efficiency and reliability of collateral monitoring processes
2. Reduce manual workload and operational risk through automation
3. Improve the follow‑up of collateral positions.
4. Contribute to stronger internal controls, including collateral movements tracking and timely reporting to external stakeholders such as brokers and retrocessionaires.
Candidate profile
Required Technical & Soft skills
As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying “The Art & Science of Risk,” SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.
Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.
As an international company, our common culture is defined by “The SCOR Way.” Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.
SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.
SCOR, one of the world's largest reinsurers, provides its clients with a diversified and innovative range of solutions to control and manage risk. Using its experience and expertise, “The Art & Science of Risk”, SCOR provides cutting-edge financial solutions, analytics tools and services in all areas related to risk – in Life & Health as well as in P&C.
The reinsurance industry is about combining technical expertise and experience with the developments of science. However many tools we use to conduct our activities (models, databases, pricing tools, reserving tools, and so on), we also need expert judgments and human experience to correctly underwrite. This is what we call the art of underwriting. Reinsurance is a knowledge industry. Expertise is an accumulation variable.
The most advanced tool will never replace the intuition of a seasoned underwriter facing a complex risk. Because at the end of the day, you have to make a decision, to sign, to underwrite. And what we have underwritten, we cannot overwrite - our word is our bond, as is our signature. This dimension of our business, linked to the art of underwriting, is more important than some observers would have people believe.
One way to acquire this art is to share experiences – both good and bad – and to share doubts and questions. Artists always belong to a school, from which they learn their craft.
Like artists, we have to learn, imitate, mimic, and then innovate, in order to find our own style and create our own distinctive work.
