Group Sustainability department is divided in three units:
(i) Sustainable Investment,
(ii) Sustainable Insurance,
(iii) Corporate Sustainability.
Sustainable Investment team is responsible for defining the sustainable investment policy to apply while managing the portfolio of SCOR invested assets. As an institutional investor, SCOR is determined to play its part in participating to the well-being and resilience of society, notably by preserving natural capital.
The apprenticeship will take place within the Sustainable Investment team to support existing and new research topics.
The objective is to study subjects and methodologies linked to sustainable development and to sustainable finance, and to apply these to the investment portfolio. Themes are particularly linked to climate change, biodiversity and human rights and may be translated by an analysis of opportunities and risks, a study of impacts and dependencies and their materiality… These tasks lead to elaborating extra-financial reports and need in that aim to collect ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) data and/or to develop extra-financial
indicators.
The apprentice is also responsible of a monitoring activity regarding sustainable finance topics.
The subjects delt with by the apprentice vary depending on periods of time. As an example, it could be studies on carbon or biodiversity footprints or sectorial analyses linked to a specific ESG problematic.
Required experience &competencies
You have good knowledge in market finance and on environmental and social problematics. A former professional experience linked to those subjects would be appreciated but is not mandatory.
You are proficient in Excel, VBA, and ideally Python and SQL. Having used these tools in a professional context would be appreciated but is not mandatory.
Your English level allows you to evolve in an English-speaking environment. French would be appreciated but is not mandatory.
Rigor, autonomy, intellectual curiosity, sense of initiative and a very good relational are qualities sought after.
Required Education
You wish to supplement your higher education training (business school, engineering school or post-graduate, with ideally a finance specialisation) with an apprenticeship within the sustainability team of a listed company.
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.
