Risk Officer Risk Tooling & Performance

Ageas is a listed international insurance Group with a heritage spanning 190 years. It offers Retail and Business customers Life and Non-Life insurance products designed to suit their specific needs, today and tomorrow. As one of Europe’s larger insurance companies, Ageas concentrates its activities in Europe and Asia, which together make up the major part of the global insurance market. It operates successful insurance businesses in Belgium, the UK, France, Portugal, Turkey, China, Malaysia, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, and the Philippines through a combination of wholly owned subsidiaries and long term partnerships with strong financial institutions and key distributors.

The Ageas Risk Tooling & Performance Team continuously acts as a competence/expertise centre within the Ageas Group Model Implementation Team, supporting and adding value by providing day to day complex intellectual services to Ageas-wide (international) business users.

The scope of the team is risk tooling development, testing and maintenance along with ensuring their reliability and optimized performance in a context of required overall governance. The realization of the scope relies on Ageas-wide (international) business specifications and requirements stemming from regulatory reporting frameworks: Market Consistent Embedded Value (MCEV), Liability Adequacy Testing (LAT), International Financial Reporting Standard 17 (IFRS17), Solvency II (SII/ECAP) including Life & Non-Life Standard Formula, Non-Life Internal Models, Internal Model Market Risk and Internal Model Operational Risk affecting all risk tooling components linked to them.

• Design, build & document risk analytics solutions and automation tools that meet and support stakeholders needs (e.g. model managers covering both group and local operating company aspects) or improve their user-experience in the context of usage of Ageas Group models and tools
• Write, challenge and contribute to functional specifications, implement, maintain, pre-UAT, provide UAT instructions & support and document the Valuation Platform (tVP) and non-methodological changes in the risk valuation software (R3S), the Non-Life automation platform, the operational risk tooling/platform, … along with the embedded/linked peripheral tools/components
• Assess, capture, and translate complex business processes and specifications into technical implementation requirements and structured analytics use cases & advice on all possible IT impacts and aspects
• Ensure timely tooling delivery following the integrated release calendar for both (strategic) projects and business as usual activities and the integration/transition thereof
• Proactively broaden and deepen relationships by working closely with the different stakeholders (business and technical) and track, communicate, and manage risks and opportunities surrounding all tools provided to the (international) business users
• Actively participate to technical discussions & meetings as well as to other relevant internal & external alignment meetings, either as an attendee or as moderator
• Provide system support, encompassing the following targets:

• In case of system upgrades, analyze impacts on tooling & end-users, test the impacted tooling by using ad-hoc test-scenarios and consult/inform the end-users when needed
• Act as single point of contact for functional problems or questions from business users while they use the risk tooling supported by the Model Implementation Team
• Support the business when operational changes also require system changes
• Ensure that tooling performance is optimized compared to the available infrastructure and continuously challenge the status quo
• Monitor evolution in technology and trends potentially impacting the MIT overall tooling, and proactively advice on upgrades and/or migrations to more recent/stable/performant technologies
• Apply the Model Governance Policy and Data Management Policy

• Full and independent proficiency in C# (.NET Core) programming
• Familiarity with LINQ
• Solid understanding of VBA
• Proficiency in R programming
• Basic understanding of RDBMS (SQL server and/or SQLite) and SQL
• You have an active knowledge of English - knowledge of French or Dutch is a plus
• You possess strong verbal and written communication skills
• You are proactive, flexible, and able to work on an independent basis
• You can present complex materials in a structured and comprehensive way
• Demonstrated experience in risk domain and taxonomy is a plus
• The following skills are nice-to-have:
  • Familiarity with main valuation frameworks (e.g., Solvency II/IFRS17/LAT …)
  • Familiarity with the SCRUM agile framework
  • Familiarity with MS Azure platform
  • Familiarity with Docker
  • Familiarity with MS Power Platform
  • Basic understanding of WPF (and XAML)
  • Familiarity with MVVM coding pattern

Ageas values your talent and knows how to reward it. We offer you an attractive salary and significant fringe benefits. You will work within a professional and experienced team, open to coach and train you to achieve your maximum personal potential. You will work in a high-grade international and interdisciplinary work environment, with numerous opportunities for personal development.

Please apply online.