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Your work environment:
The headquarters of the AXA Group (GIE AXA) brings together our corporate activities. It provides guidance and support to subsidiaries around the world, to ensure the coordination and monitoring of the Group's global strategy, the application of its standards, the consistency of commercial approaches and the sharing of best practices. The headquarters gathers approximately 1000 employees and is distinguished by its strong international culture (45 nationalities), which makes it a rich and stimulating place to work.
Within the Group, you will join the Group Risk Management.
The AXA Group Risk Management (GRM) brings together high level and multidisciplinary staff with engineers, actuaries and financials split between Paris, Zurich, Madrid and the US. Its mains missions are focused on the following key areas:
- Define the process enabling to identify, assess & mitigate the risks undertaken.
- Identify, analyze, model and aggregate the Group's risks (economic capital and emergence of economic value).
- Contribute to mitigate the Group's risks (standards & policies, reinsurance, securitization, etc.).
Within this Direction, you will be part of the P&C Department.
the P&C Department is responsible for P&C Risks management.
Key missions of the department are to:
- Set up an effective Risk Management framework :
Identify & map P&C (re)insurance risks, quantify risks (models), design validate & deploy internal model, set & monitor Risk Appetite, review & approve (re)insurance Standard & Policies, contribute to regulatory reports & relation with ACPR, leverage Group Internal model, conduct Group Use Test (produce RAF, STEC, ECR metrics), produce Elypse metrics
- Ensure the effectiveness of the risk framework :
Promote a P&C Risk Management culture throughout the AXA Group, contribute to IDR/TR agenda & work, drive NEO (the AXA Group Natural Events platform), ensure 2nd line of defence with 2nd opinion on P&C activities (Strategic plan, CEO dialogues questions, reserving, UW referrals (GUC membership), Reinsurance (GSC membership), CLEAR (Steerco membership), PMP (2nd opinion in ARCC)), steer Standards/Policies breaches identification & remediation (for ARCC validation/information)
Main Purpose & Core Activities of the job
The Head of P&C Short Tail Business will be responsible for the management of risks resulting from P&C Short Tail underwriting & claims handling, for commercial lines.
Short Tail risks encompasse the following segments:
- General Property
- Construction
- Machinery/Equipment Breakdown
- Energy (Oil&Gas)
- Fine Art & Species
- Political Risks
- Terrorism and Political Violence
- Event Cancellations
- Bloodstock / Livestock / Aquaculture
- Title insurance
- Film and media
- Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear
- K&R, Extorsion
The P&C Group Head of Short Tail Commercial Lines is responsible for Transport Lines of Business, including Marine (Cargo and Hull) and Aviation (including Satellites).
This includes the following main activities in P&C Short Tail:
- Identify & map the (re) insurance risks through sound portfolio and business knowledge & sound understanding of underwriting strategy.
- Contribute to the systemic risk modelling activities & to the risk appetite set up, bringing expert judgement to models teams.
- Review & approve the standards & policy for insurance, assumed reinsurance and ceded reinsurance
- Contribute to entities In Depth Review & Technical Reviews agenda & work.
- Ensure 2nd line of defence with 2nd opinion on P&C strategic plan, CEO dialogues questions, Underwriting referrals to Group (Group Underwriting Committee membership), CLEAR (Steerco membership – process aiming at identifying & mitigating systemic risks across portfolios & aiming at clarifying covers), Portfolio Management Process in Commercial Lines (responsible for the consolidation & presentation of entities RM 2nd opinion in ARCC).
- Steer Standards/Policies breaches identification & remediation (for ARCC validation/information).
- Contribute to promote a P&C Risk Management culture throughout the AXA Group.
Dimensions
The Group Head of P&C Short Tail Business Risks reports to the Head of P&C Business Risks.
The Group Head of P&C Short Tail Business Risks is an active contributor to the preparation of the Group Underwriting Committee (GUC) submissions.
His counterparts are:
- The Group Management Committee members, the senior managers of Group Risk Management, Group Underwriting Office, Group Legal, Group Operations, Group CFO (including GPM, PBRC, DCFG), Public Affairs
- All P&C entities (over 40 entities) or regions/markets at Senior Management level, especially Chief Risk Officers P&C and also Chief Underwriting Officers & their heads of Short Tails LoBs and Chief Claims Officers.
Your Profile
Technical skills
In-depth comprehensive knowledge and extensive experience in P&C Short Tail business operations including Underwriting, Pricing, Claims, in Insurance and Reinsurance, as well as a thorough understanding of business insurance rationale, processes, profitability levers & Risk Management.
Sound understanding of processes to efficiently manage the decisions to be taken in the different governance bodies of a large international Group.
Strong strategic vision supporting an ability to challenge and orient the P&C Short Tail strategy, operations, Risk Management at Group or Entity level operations.
Soft skills
- Natural leadership.
- Very good analytical and concise communication.
- Ability to work in network, with tight deadlines and team spirit.
- Good organizational and time management skills.
- Strong written & oral communication skills, including ability to deliver high-level presentations to senior management or entity CEOs.
- Effective networking with peers on the market.
- Ability to challenge a variety of topics impacting the insurance value chain.
- Taste for identifying the explicit & implicit rules of the different insurance markets.
- Agility to work in a multifaceted P&C world (Local vs Group, Small vs Large entities, worldwide Risk Management & underwriting cultures).
- Mastery of speaking and writing in clear English for all professional and socio-professional contexts.
About AXA
Would you like to wake up every day driven and inspired by our noble mission and to work together as one global team to empower people to live a better life?
Here at AXA we strive to lead the transformation of our industry. We are looking for talented individuals who come from varied backgrounds, think differently and want to be part of this exciting transformation by challenging the status quo so we can push AXA - a leading global brand and one of the most innovative companies in our industry - onto even greater things.
About the Entity
The headquarters of the AXA Group is based in Paris - La Défense (Majunga Tower) and brings together the Group's corporate activities. It is distinguished by its strong international culture.
What We Offer
You will join:
- A responsible company, towards people, including its employees and customers, and towards the planet
- A company with strong values
- A company promoting internal mobility and the training of its employees
- A company offering many benefits (learn more here: Reward & Benefits | AXA Group)
- A flexible company, allowing hybrid work, in the office and from home.
The information provided by applicants will be treated as strictly confidential and used for recruitment purposes only.
