Risk Manager

Join Allianz Partners as a Risk Manager for the travel line of business, where you’ll take on a global role driving risk management excellence for one of our key business lines. You’ll play a critical part as the single point of contact for Risk topics across the organization in ensuring compliance with our global risk framework and industry regulations, while actively collaborating with leaders across the global organization identify, assess, and mitigate risks. Your expertise will help strengthen internal controls and safeguard areas like financial reporting, IT, legal, compliance, and operations.

This role also offers the opportunity to contribute to Allianz Partners' Global Risk Centers of Competence, with the potential to lead local and global initiatives based on your experience. Work across the business with multi-cultural teams and drive global best practices. Be a key player in finding impactful solutions.

This position offers a hybrid work schedule out of our Cambridge, Ontario office and reports directly to the Senior Risk Manager for Travel.

What you will do:

• Oversee, coordinate and lead Risk management topics for Travel LoB, including global topics.
• Develop and maintain a good understanding of the Travel business and liaise closely with management.
• Provide risk expertise and consulting for projects and initiatives.
• Support the management, monitoring and reporting global business operations risks.
• Conduct risk assessments to determine impacts of risk issues and facilitate appropriate escalation and implementation of the decisions.
• Provide feedback to inquiries relating to risk monitoring actions.
• Support and provide advice during decision-making processes.
• Monitor news around market and evaluate current and potential risk exposure.
• Identify changing regulations and industry risk trends that may have an enterprise-wide impact.
• Monitor the implementation and effectiveness of risk management activities.
• Lead and present topics in the Travel Risk Committee and other meetings as required.
• Facilitate the Risk management process and provision of Risk management delivery support (this includes among others, the Top Risk Assessment, and Internal Control Framework)
• Coordinate the effective implementation and maintaining of a network of Risk and Internal Control coordinators as well as the provision of risk training to the wider business. Promote a positive Risk Culture within the business.
  
  

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance or related field or equivalent combination of work and education experience.
• Minimum of 4-8 years of experience Risk Management, OR Operational Resilience & Compliance skills
• Risk Management or internal control accreditation or Accounting or Auditing qualification.
• Understanding and knowledge of best practices and trends in Enterprise Risk Management and internal control frameworks.
• Strong IT user skills, very good user knowledge of Microsoft (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Fluency in English
• Strong communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills, with ability to influence stakeholders.
• Strong independent judgment and proactive ownership of tasks
• Excellent time management, able to manage multiple tasks across departments.
• High attention to detail with a customer-focused mindset
• Works well under pressure, meeting strict deadlines.
• Team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills in a multi-cultural environment
  
  

What We Offer

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs. All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

58443 | Risk Management | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.

We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation.

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.