ERM Officer

Our organisation

Ageas is a listed international insurance Group with a heritage spanning almost 200 years. It offers Retail and Business customers Life and Non-Life insurance products designed to suit their specific needs, today and tomorrow.

As one of Europe's larger insurance companies, Ageas concentrates its activities in Europe and Asia, which together make up the major part of the global insurance market. It operates successful insurance businesses in Belgium, the UK, France, 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 and represents a staff force of over 45,000 people.

Ageas has been certified as “Top Employer" in 2022, standing out in particular for its career opportunities, continuous learning & development, sustainability and strong employee empowerment.

Our Enterprise Risk Management Team is based in Brussels and is looking for a new colleague.

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. The main responsibilities of an ERM officer are:

• 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

Ageas values your talent and knows how to reward it. We offer you an attractive salary and fringe benefits. You will work in a stimulating international environment, with numerous opportunities for personal development. You will work independently within a dynamic team. We also offer you a flexible hybrid working environment.

Interested?

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