Head of Strategic Risk

Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Location: Sydney

Type: Permanent, Fulltime

The opportunity

The Head of Strategic Risk is a newly created senior role in QBE’s Group Risk function with an important remit reviewing and challenging the business at an executive level on divisional plans and business unit performance reviews.

This is a key senior opportunity with a global remit, identifying material risks associated with business performance and challenging them with QBE’s leaders. Reporting to the Group Chief Enterprise Risk Officer, the Head of Strategic Risk will work closely with the Divisional Chief Risk Officers, Divisional Chief Executive Officers as well as the Group Head of Financial Performance & Analytics. It is also a role of influence with the wider Group and Divisional Cell Owners, Finance and Risk teams.

Your new role

Key to success in the Head of Strategic Risk role is identifying, quantifying, and assessing mitigants of risks that affects QBE’s business strategy, strategic objectives, and strategy execution, and communicating these back to the business.

Main accountabilities include:
- Own and drive the Group-wide stress and scenario testing program of work and provide oversight of the Strategic Risk dimension of the Group’s Risk Appetite.- Prepare reports and briefings for Board and senior management, enabling the Board to form a view of the management of the Group’s strategic risk.- Be accountable for regular review of the Group and divisional business plan and the Group Chief Risk Officer attestation process.- Provide review and challenge in the annual Cell Review sessions as the key second line risk representative.- Engage, inform & influence QBE Executives and other key stakeholder to ensure QBE’s strategic risk is managed to regulatory & QBE’s requirements.- Own and drive the CRO review of the Group Business Plan (including half yearly health check)- Build strong relationships globally to enable a collaborative and transparent relationship stakeholders and business partners

About you

This is an opportunity for an internal risk, finance and/or underwriting professional to step into a senior leadership role operating at a strategic leadership level. You will have a deep understanding of insurance, and be comfortable engaging and influencing across a spectrum of senior stakeholders globally.

Ideal skills & experience:
- Leadership skills - able to lead, inspire and influence groups- Excellent influencing and negotiation skills, specifically with senior stakeholders- High personal responsibility in delivering sustainable outcomes- Strong project management skills- Well nurtured Insurance financial analysis capability- Able to contribute to the development of strategy- Ability to analyse and use data for decision making - strong numeracy and analytical skills

About QBE

We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future - helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We’re proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities.

With more than more than 11,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment - what if it was yours too?

Your career at QBE — let’s make it happen

**Benefits**:
We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:
- ‘Hybrid Working’ - a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance- Access to yearly learning and development to build your skills- Our ‘Thriving at our Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice- 12 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super- The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching- Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums-
- Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

Rewards & Recognition

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:
- 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice- 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbei