Senior Risk Manager

Title: Senior Risk Manager

Company: Everest Insurance (Ireland) France

Job Category: Technology

Job Description:

Everest Group, Ltd. (Everest), is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider, operating for nearly 50 years through subsidiaries in North America, Latin America, the UK & Ireland, Continental Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Throughout our history, Everest has maintained its discipline and focuses on creating long-term value through underwriting excellence and strong risk and capital management. Our strengths include extensive product and distribution capabilities, a strong balance sheet, and an innovative culture. Our most critical asset is our people. We offer dynamic training & professional development to our employees. We also offer generous tuition/continuing education reimbursement programs, mentoring opportunities, flexible work arrangements, and Colleague Resource Groups.

Role Overview

Reporting to the Chief Risk Officer, the Risk Manager has responsibility for enhancing, embedding and maintaining the Company’s risk management system. The role requires risk management experience within an insurance company, a good understanding of the insurance sector and of best practice risk management frameworks. The Risk Manager will be self-motivated and well-organised and able to manage and prioritise a broad range of activities, across all aspects of risk management in the context of a rapidly growing business. The role holder will be required to interact with multiple functional areas including underwriting, finance, compliance, claims, operations, senior management and colleagues in Everest’s European offices.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage all aspects of the development, implementation, embedding and maintenance of the risk management framework, supporting the company in identifying, monitoring, managing and reporting risks.
• Continuous development and embedding of the Company’s risk management framework to meet the needs of a growing business.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including senior management and internal business units.
• Effectively communicate complex risk issues to diverse audiences, tailoring messages to different levels of understanding.
• Promote a strong risk culture and risk ownership including visiting other branches to help embed this culture, as required.
• Provide day to day advice, support and challenge to all functions on risk management matters.
• Maintain and develop risk reporting, including monitoring of risk appetite statement metrics.
• Conduct risk management 'deep dive' reviews and assurance reviews.
• Provide risk management training, as required.
• Contribute to the preparation of the ORSA, ensuring that all local risks are reflected.
• Produce risk management papers for the Board / Risk Committee and present on occasion.

Competencies, skills and experience:

• Risk management experience within the insurance sector, including experience of Solvency II.
• Strong problem solving, analytical and numerical skills.
• Ability to demonstrate professional scepticism.
• An ability to plan work, manage time effectively and ensure timely completion of all deliverables.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to influence and write good quality reports.
• Ability to influence.
• Ability to develop effective working relationships across the business.
• Self-motivated, with the capacity to work autonomously, as part of a team and across teams, managing multiple priorities.
• Risk management qualification a plus.

Our Culture:

At Everest, our purpose is to provide the world with protection. We help clients and businesses thrive, fuel global economies, and create sustainable value for our colleagues, shareholders and the communities that we serve. We also pride ourselves on having a unique and inclusive culture which is driven by a unified set of values and behaviors.

Our Values: are the guiding principles that inform our decisions, actions and behaviors. They are an expression of our culture and an integral part of how we work: Talent. Thoughtful assumption of risk. Execution. Efficiency. Humility. Leadership. Collaboration. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

Our Colleague Behaviors: define how we operate and interact with each other no matter our location, level or function: Respect everyone. Pursue better. Lead by example. Own our outcomes. Win together.

All colleagues are held accountable to upholding and supporting our values and behaviors across the company. This includes day to day interactions with fellow colleagues, and the global communities we serve.

Type: Regular

Time Type: Full time

Primary Location: Paris, France