Senior Financial Risk Analyst

Primary Details

Senior Financial Risk Analyst

London

Permanent (Hybrid) - 2,3 days in the office

At QBE, our purpose is to enable a more resilient future.

We are an international insurer and reinsurer with a local presence in 27 countries.

The opportunity

We have a great opportunity to join QBE as a Senior Financial Risk Analyst in our Enterprise Risk Management team on a full time, permanent basis.

Reporting to our Financial risks and ESG Senior Risk Manager, you'll be delivering a variety of financial risk management initiatives, providing insight and second line challenge to relevant business functions and lead on delivering of key reporting for these risks.

Your new role

• Providing insights to the business: you'll be curious and keen to provide high-quality insights, to enable better management of business decisions in relation to credit, market and liquidity risks. You'll support process improvements, which will require frequent engagement with relevant business functions.

• Stakeholder engagement: you'll participate in various meetings to understand and support business requirements, often providing value through provision of risk insights and challenge. You'll build and maintain strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders, maintaining customer focus and working with the business to make the best decisions by improving the awareness and understanding of credit, market and liquidity risks.

• Collaboration: you'll partner with a range of stakeholders on a regular basis, include Group Investments, Group Financial Risk Management and regulators. You will be expected to deliver findings, insights and recommendations, supported by a clear rationale.

• Being a technical expert: you'll deliver high-quality investment risk analysis and key reporting and represent Risk at relevant forums, providing appropriate and value-adding challenge. You'll identify, measure, monitor, manage and report the financial risks that QBE EO could be exposed to, helping to report to senior stakeholders.

• Training and people development: you'll be part of an inclusive and diverse team and be an advocate in creating an environment which exemplifies QBE’s “DNA” and culture. This may include training junior individuals and/or supporting with disseminating knowledge throughout the Risk function.

About you

• Good technical understanding of financial and investment risks as they relate to a large (re)insurance business

• Good engagement and influencing skills

• Presentation skills

• Organisational skills

• Analytical and reporting skills

• Knowledge of risk management processes, language and tools/systems

• Experience in the general insurance industry

• Commercial acumen

• IT skills, including Microsoft Excel

• Preference for professionally qualified or working towards (e.g. CFA or equivalent)

Why QBE? At My Best

At QBE, we want our people to feel rewarded and inspired to perform at their best, that’s why we have created “At My Best”. It’s our connection, our way of showing we have your back. We understand that one size doesn’t fit all and that priorities can change depending on your life stage.

That is why our blend of wellbeing initiatives and benefits offer flexibility to suit what matters most to you. It’s in the culture of our business, our QBE DNA, to support our people. Everything we do is underpinned by our QBE DNA - because we know it’s not just what we do that matters, it’s how we do it that makes the difference.  In addition to this, we also offer flexible parental leave for both parents and have several employee network groups that support and empower our diverse workforce.

At QBE, we view our people as our most precious asset. We understand the importance of fostering a work environment that is responsive to the changing needs of today's workforce. QBE aims to build a workplace that is fair and inclusive because we want to attract and retain the best people to do the job, we have adopted flexible working across the company and welcome this conversation.

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Some of the award’s QBE are proud to have won, been a finalist for, and shortlisted for include. 

Employer of the Year 2022Winner – Insurance Insider

British Claims Awards 2022 Winner - InsurTech Award 

Insurance Times Claims Excellence Awards 2022 Winner - Claims Product Solution of the Year 

Working Families Best Practice Awards 2021 Finalist for: Best COVID-19 Response  

Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2022 Shortlisted for: Best Customer Care, Diversity & Inclusion Initiative of the Year 2022, Specialist Insurer of the Year (for Construction), General Insurer of the Year 

We are proud to have partnerships with organisations such as Stonewall and Working Families, and our commitment to the Women in Finance Charter, the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles and Race at Work charter helps keep us accountable and transparent.

Inclusion of Diversity

We are striving to create a workplace culture where all our people feel included, and we are committed to building a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we operate in.

We know that diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision making, improves the quality of our delivery and helps us to meet the needs of our customers.