The AXA Group, world leader in Financial Protection, supports and advises its individual and corporate customers at every life stage, providing them with the products and services that meet their insurance, personal protection, savings and wealth management needs.

Our areas of expertise are reflected in a range of products and services adapted to the needs of each client in three major business lines: property-casualty insurance, life & savings, and asset management.

In 2019, present in 57 countries, the 160,000 employees and distributors of AXA were committed to serving 108 million clients.

AXA Corporate Center’s main missions are to:

• Steer the entities in order to ensure the coherence of the strategies, the consistency of the commercial approaches as well as the optimization of the risks and results;
• Defining and coordinating Group policies, different transversal projects and standards, identifying and sharing best practices;
• Supporting the entities in order to help them to grow, to develop their offer, their management and steering standards as well as their risk management.

The head office of AXA Group (GIE AXA), based in La Défense Majunga, gathers the Group's corporate activities. It coordinates the various entities according to the Group's strategy and is responsible for managing international projects. The headquarters is composed with over 850 employees and is distinguished by its strong international culture (45 nationalities). 

Management Presentation: 

You will report to the Head of AXA SA Operational Risks & Internal Control as part of AXA SA Risk Management team within the central Group Risk Management function of the AXA Group. The team reports ultimately to AXA Group Chief Risk Officer.

Group Risk Management develops the risk & internal control framework standards and the minimum requirements or processes while AXA SA Risk management team shall implement the second line of defense for all AXA SA activities (Corporate, Financial Holding, Reinsurance) as well as GIE AXA services, coordinating with all key expert functions within GIE.

 Core activities:

Within the Operational Risk & Internal Control team, as Risk & Internal Control analyst, you will participate to following activities:

• Support Internal Controllers by contributing to 2nd line control activities for providing independent opinion on the design and operating effectiveness of controls set out by the 1st line according to Internal Control Plan ;
• Monitoring performance of key controls by 1st line managers and support reporting in due time ;
• Participating to workshops with control and business functions to review controls and monitor the risk mitigating action plans ;
• Support Operational Risk Manager contributing to Operational Risk processes including risk assessment through workshops with first lines, incident collection and key risk indicators update on a quarterly basis.

Start date : 1st of July 2023 (latest)

This assignment will provide an opportunity to have an overall vision of Corporate Center activities including Reinsurance business and apprehend key risks and controls in these areas.

Technical and professional skills:

• Current educational curriculum: Master degree (BAC+5) in Business Administration, specializing in Finance / Risk Management / Audit & Control
• Experience in risk management / internal control and proficiency in Solvency II regulation concepts & risk practices, ideally in insurance sector
• Knowledge in (re)insurance business, Solvency II regulation and risk modeling is a plus
• Project management capacities
• Fluent in French
• Proficient in English (C1 at least both in writing and speaking)

Soft skills:      

• Proven high reliability, quality and timeliness of deliverables
• Ability to work autonomously as well as in a team
• Organizational skills
• Ability to interact with a wide range of correspondents at various levels of management including regulators and auditors
• Proficient writing and communicating skills (delivery of presentations, documentations)
• Ability to build strong relationships and business partnering