NTU’s Insurance Risk and Finance Research Centre (IFRRC) is looking for a Senior Research Fellow to work in actuarial modelling for longevity risk (including long-term care, critical illness insurance). The candidate will perform theoretical and empirical research of critical illness incidence rates for major critical illnesses (e.g., cancer, heart attacks, stroke, Parkinson’s disease and kidney failure), and analyze the cost drivers for long-term care insurance, considering deterioration or improvement trends, the effect of lifestyles such as diets and smoking habits, and the impact of additional information such as wearables and medical exams. The candidate will report to the Director of IRFRC.

Role:  Senior Research Fellow (Ref: JOB-2018-0051352)

Profile:  Full-time employee

Duration: 2-years appointment 

Location:  Singapore

Responsibility

• To bring subject matter expertise and management skills to lead IRFRC’s research efforts in longevity, long term care and/or critical illness risks.
  
• Supervise students in performing data analysts. 
  
• Responsible for the data acquisition, analytics and writing research report. 
  
• Work closely with SCOR Global Life team, and liaise with government agencies at and other industry organizations at an expert and management level.
  

Requirements

• Minimum five years’ work/research experience in mortality and morbidity risks, including longevity risk and/or long term care.
  
• Proficiency with recent longevity and mortality modeling techniques, as well as Markov and Semi-Markov modeling applied to morbidity risks
  
• Experience in working with building and maintaining a large database. 
  
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, data management and statistical softwares (R and/or SAS).
  

Qualifications

• Graduate degree (PhD preferred) in mathematics, statistics, actuarial science, computer engineering, or related field. Technical profiles with a specialty in epidemiology or social economics/econometrics are also welcome.
  
• Comfortable working in a multidisciplinary environment with public and private partners
  
• Languages: English – fluently spoken and professional level writing.
  

Background: The Insurance Risk and Finance Research Centre (IRFRC), which is part of Nanyang Business School, sponsors and directs primary research on insurance and insurance related risk research in the Asia Pacific. Through research, industry collaborations and seminars it aims to provide a critical foundation to create knowledge and support the growing role of the insurance industry in the economic development of the region. Founded in March 2011, in partnership with global reinsurer SCOR, the Centre draws on the expertise of the School's Banking and Finance faculty as well as SCOR's global research network.

NTU internal: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/ohr/career/CurrentOpenings/ResearchOpenings/NBS/Pages/Senior-Research-Fellow-%28-JOB-2018-0010313%29.aspx

Contact: To apply, please  send your CV to nbshr@ntu.edu.sg 

CyRiM is a three-year Public-Private Partnership sponsored by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the Cyber Security Agency (CSA) of Singapore, as well as leading global insurance and information security companies. The project aims to develop data and analytical tools that will enable business solutions to help corporations implement efficient and effective cybersecurity measures. A key outcome of the project will be the establishment and ongoing support of an independent database of data breach incidents, vulnerability and economic loss data, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.  The project has a large research component requiring a strong link with academia that is achieved at an international level through collaborations with universities world-​wide.​

Role:         Post-Doctoral Positions in Risk Management and Insurance and/or Actuarial Science

The Insurance Risk and Finance Research Centre of the Nanyang Business School in Singapore is looking for candidates to fill in two post-doctoral positions in Risk Management and Insurance, and/or Actuarial Science. 

The post-doctoral positions are expected to have 2-year duration, starting in Spring or Fall of 2018. 

Qualified candidates must have a completed Ph.D. by the time of appointment in Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance, Finance, Economics, or related discipline. 

The candidate is expected to contribute to the ongoing research efforts in cyber risk management and financing of catastrophe risks, and to publish academic papers in high-quality actuarial science, risk management and insurance, business and finance journals.

The successful candidate will work in a multidisciplinary environment with cyber risk modelers, cyber insurance underwriters and information security experts. He/she will contribute to the cyber risk management framework under development by the project team. This position will report to the Director of IRFRC.

NTU internal: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/ohr/career/CurrentOpenings/ResearchOpenings/NBS/Pages/JOB-2017-0308471.aspx

NTU internal: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/ohr/career/CurrentOpenings/ResearchOpenings/NBS/Pages/JOB-2017-0308475.aspx​

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Role: Information Security Analyst

Profile:  Information Security Professional (Full-time Research Fellow or Contractor)

Duration:  Until 30 April 2019 (with option to extend)

Location:  Singapore

Posted date: 29 March 2017

Closing date: Applications close when position is filled.

Responsibility: 

• Responsible for designing an assessment framework for the attack surface for an organization; Lead the calibration of assessment framework using sector-specific data. 
  
• Coordinate work with cyber risk modelers, banking CISOs and insurance underwriters 
  
• This position reports to the Director of IRFRC
  

Requirement: 

• Diploma/Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or equivalent
  
• Qualification in security technologies, practice, methodologies and standards
  
• At least 5 years of relevant working experience
  
• Strong working knowledge of malware in its varying forms, common delivery mechanisms, and common mitigation steps. 
  
• Experience working with technology from Key Security vendors such as Splunk, Syslog Cisco, Palo Alto, RSA, HP, Imperva, Fortinet, Trend Micro, FireEye, Checkpoint, Symantec and Intel Security
  
• Understanding the Security Industry and evolution of technologies, threats and vulnerabilities.
  
• Good working knowledge of security risk management, security governance framework and compliance, technical vulnerability management, application security technologies (System hardening, IDS/ IPS, firewall, privileged identity and access management), security incident response and assessment.
  

This position has been filled.

Role:      Project Manager -- Cyber Risk Management Project (CyRiM)

Start Date:   October 2017

Duration:      Until 30 June 2019 (with option to extend)

Location:      Singapore

The successful candidate will work in a multidisciplinary environment with cyber risk modelers, cyber insurance underwriters and information security experts. He/she will contribute to the cyber risk management framework under development by the project team. He/she will lead industry working groups (clients facing) and conduct working group sessions in consultation of the framework developed by the project team. This position will report to the Director of IRFRC. The ideal candidate will be a dynamic individual with technical knowledge in cybersecurity, project management, consulting, and problem solving capabilities. A key determinant of this function is hands-on leadership in a multi-stakeholder environment and capability of project planning, execution and delivery on schedule. 

Responsibility:

• As a member of the core project team, you will be expected to bring content expertise and management skills to assist in the development of cyber risk database and risk management framework on a day-to-day basis (through discussions and regular project coordination meetings).

• You will be expected to supervise a team of risk analysts in data gathering efforts. 

• You will be responsible for the cyber loss data acquisition, integration and analytics. 

• You will be expected to liaise with industry representatives from insurance, broker, corporate (buyers) and IT security companies at an expert and management level.

Requirement

• Minimum 10 years’ work experience in insurance, consulting or InfoSec companies.

• Management skills, and the ability to effectively lead, organize and motivate a team of analysts.

• Strong publication record a plus

• Data modelling skills (e.g. using R) a plus

• Proficient in Microsoft Office.

• Graduate degree (PhD preferred) in mathematics, statistics, computer engineering, management information systems, or related field.

• Languages: English – fluently spoken and professional level writing.

Contact: To apply, please  send your CV to nbshr@ntu.edu.sg

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(This position has been filled)

Role: Programme Manager -- Cyber Data and Analytics 

Profile:  Cyber Risk Management (full-time Senior Research Fellow or Contractor)

Duration: Until 30 April 2019 (with option to extend)

Location: Singapore

Posted date: 29 March 2017

Closing date: Applications close when the position has been filled. 

NTU’s Insurance Risk and Finance Research Centre (IFRRC) is looking for a Programme Manager to lead the Cyber Data and Analytics workstream of the Cyber Risk Management (CyRiM) Project. 

The successful candidate will work in a multidisciplinary environment with cyber risk modelers, cyber insurance underwriters and information security experts. He/she will be engaged in leading the design and deployment of the cyber incidence and vulnerability databases. The candidate will report to the Director of IRFRC, and work with other senior members of the CyRiM team. The ideal candidate will be a dynamic individual with technical knowledge in cybersecurity, project management, consultants’ oversight, and problem solving capabilities. A key determinant of this function is hands-on leadership in a multi-stakeholder environment and delivery of the databases on budget and on schedule. 

Responsibility

• As a member of the core project team, you will be expected to bring content expertise and management skills to assist in the development of a cybersecurity database on a day-to-day basis (including through discussions and regular scheduled project coordination meetings).
  
• You will be expected to supervise a team of risk analysts in data gathering efforts. 
  
• You will be responsible for the cyber loss data acquisition, integration and analytics. 
  
• You will be expected to liaise with industry representatives from insurance, broker, corporate (buyers) and IT security companies at an expert and management level.