Enterprise Risk Management Officer

Our organisation

Ageas is a listed international insurance Group with a heritage spanning close to 200 years. We offer Retail and Business customers Life and Non-Life insurance products, and we are also engaged in reinsurance activities.

Our customers are at the heart of our business, and our products and services are designed to anticipate, manage, and cover their risks through a wide range of solutions designed for their needs, both today and in the future.

We are one of Europe's larger insurance companies and we are also well represented in Asia. In total, Ageas is on the ground in 13 countries (Belgium, the UK, Portugal, Turkey, China, Malaysia, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, and the Philippines) through a combination of wholly owned subsidiaries and long-term partnerships with strong financial institutions and key distributors.

Ageas ranks among the market leaders in the countries in which it operates. Every day, more than 44,000 skilled and committed employees are at the service of nearly 45 million customers. Our Group has at its foundation a set of core values - Care, Dare, Deliver, and Share – representing who we are and how we work. As a “Supporter of your life” we seek to create social and economic value for our customers, employees, partners, investors, and society at large.

Ageas has been re-certified as Top Employer in 2024.

Your function

As ERM officer you will contribute to the development and embedding of the ERM tools, processes, and policy framework to maintain an effective risk management and governance, including identification, measurement, monitoring, mitigation and reporting of all material risks within Ageas.

Your responsibilities include among others:

• Assist in the continuous improvement, implementation and embedding of the ERM framework, including the Operational Risk Management framework (policies, Limits and Minimum standards…).

• Interact with local entities and business and risk officers on risk assessment tasks and reporting, provide support and guidance as necessary.

• Support the various risk governance committees (preparing the agenda and supporting documents, drafting meeting minutes).

• Coordinate the ORSA (Own Risk and Solvency Assessment) process, including and in collaboration with other risk departments and local entities, defining stress test scenarios and drafting the Group ORSA report.

• Coordinate the assessment of the appropriateness of the operational risk capital model across the Group.

• Challenge the received risk assessment results from local entities and contribute to aggregated reporting and communication to senior management, ensuring consistent, reliable, and timely risk information providing management with an independent risk opinion.

• Assist in embedding the ERM and Operational Risk framework by contributing to the different operational risk management tasks at Ageas holding (second line internal control testing, incident reporting, risk awareness trainings…).

Your profile

• You bring preferably about 5 years of relevant working experience within risk management, ideally in the financial sector

• You have a basic to good knowledge of Solvency II, in particular Pillars 1 and 2

• You are open-minded and a high performer in a team set-up, who likes to work in teams with diverse backgrounds

• You have excellent communication skills, both orally and written ; you are therefore able to present complex materials in a structured and comprehensive way

• You are proactive, flexible and able to work on an independent basis

• You have strong coordination, planning and organizational skills

• You combine an analytical mindset with a strong result orientation

• You speak and write English at a professional level

Our offer

• The possibility of (maximum 50%) home working;

• A dynamic, multicultural working environment;

• An interesting and extensive salary package (including meal vouchers, eco vouchers, hospitalization, disability and group insurance, additional child benefit, mobile allowance and intervention in the internet reimbursement, ...);

• The possibility to optimize part of your salary package through a flexible income plan;

• A corporate culture where you are encouraged to share your views and opinions;

• A flat organizational structure with close collaboration and communication with management and cross departments;

• An extensive range of learning & development opportunities through our online learning platform;

• The opportunity to further develop yourself and to be part of a great team at a Top employer in Belgium. Find out more about it here.

Interested?

Please apply online. We are looking forward to talking to you!