P&C Performance Analysis Intern

Ready to put your analytical skills into practice ? Join SCOR’s P&C Performance team in Paris as a Performance Analysis Intern. Gain hands-on experience with real business questions, develop your understanding of (re)insurance, and contribute to reporting, analytics and automation projects.

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.

Turn theory into practice : build your understanding of Reinsurance and Performance KPIs through quarterly financial landing and closing activities, and contribute to annual external reports.

Develop your analytical voice : explore underwriting trends and portfolio performance, investigate variances and outliers, and help turn findings into clear insights for senior management while working with the P&C Performance team and key stakeholders.

Put data tools to work : contribute to the integration of the Financial landing process into a new innovative tool, help automate portfolio analysis and standard analytics, and strengthen your data-quality skills through testing and validation. 

This internship offers a practical opportunity to connect technical analysis with business understanding.

Required experience & competencies

Experience : 

• A first experience in quantitative analysis internship is mandatory (Excel, Python, SQL accepted)

• A first experience in Financial analysis or insurance is a plus

  Personal Competencies : 

• Ability to manage several projects and tasks simultaneously, prioritize effectively and meet deadlines
• Strives in an innovative culture and empowers others to take business decisions
• A results-driven approach, a passion for quality and strong attention to detail
• Self-starter mindset to proactively identify opportunities and tackle them
• Strong communication skills and a solution-oriented approach towards business problems and process improvements
• Strong interest in financial analysis, insurance, reinsurance or data-driven decision-making

• Proven ability to work independently and collaborate closely within a team

  Soft skills: 

• Flexible, proactive, rigorous, the candidate shall have strong capabilities to adapt himself/herself to a challenging and demanding environment. 

  Digital Competencies: 

• First experience with the Pack office is mandatory, interest into tech solution, Palantir or AI will be a strong plus.

Required Education 

• Master degree in Finance/Audit/Controlling from Business School with strong analytical skills

• OR Master’s degree in actuarial sciences

• OR Master's degree in computer science, applied mathematics or related fields, or equivalent work experience

Key duties and responsibilities

• Contribute to the quarterly landing process and annual external reports (BAU – Landing & Closing)

  • Contribute to P&C quarterly landing (IFRS 17 & Solvency II) process by preparing data, understanding landing variances, and preparing reports for the corporate performance team (IFRS 17 & Solvency II)

  • Support the preparation of the P&C quarterly closing report for the corporate performance team

  • Support the preparation of annual external reports, such as rating agency reports

• Support quarterly P&C performance analytics and strategic portfolio analytics (BAU – Analytics)

  • Support the P&C Performance Team in the analysis of quarter-end figures, prepare deliverables for quarterly analytics (including deliverables to top management), analyze KPIs and participate to discussions findings with key stakeholders to understand underwriting trends, financial decisions or data particularities.

• Help identify outliers and business trends, develop key financial messages, and support financial analysis across the full P&C business unit.

• Support P&C performance projects (Projects)

  • Contribute to the double run of the current landing process (quarterly forecast) on a new innovative tool

  • Support automation initiatives such as strategic portfolio analysis and broader P&C performance analysis

  • Test and validate data and features