Sr. Analyst/Lead, Enterprise Risk Management

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Enterprise Risk Management (“ERM”) is a global function, that works alongside the business in tracking and reporting on Markel’s risk profile. The function services the Insurance, Investment, Ventures and Holding Company activities in risk identification and monitoring and provides risk reporting to the Group Risk Management Committee and Board on behalf of Markel. The Risk Management Lead, Global Risk Management role offers exposure to a wide range of areas of the business and regular interactions with Senior Executives. The ERM function is currently working on a number of initiatives to enhance the risk framework and the ways of working with the business. The Risk Management Lead, Global Risk Management will have a key role in leading such initiatives.

Duties and accountabilities

• Lead risk analysis and deep dives using quantitative data and qualitative information, setting the results into appropriate context, supporting better decision making.
• Be an integral part of the quarterly risk management process (including supporting and running risk owner meetings).
• Manage the regular process for assessment, analysis and reporting of various areas of Risk across the Corporation – including timely delivery from stakeholders, and verify information provided
• Manage stakeholder relationships on a day-to-day basis.  Advocate for the function and promote awareness across the organization.  Viewed as a “go-to” subject matter expert for designated risks
• Lead various projects to analyse areas of risk and propose practical, pragmatic and cost effective solutions
• Guide work by junior members of the Global Risk Management team and provide support as needed.
• Use knowledge from stakeholder interactions to proactively suggest potential risk responses to the rest of the team. Partner with collaborators to facilitate implementation of appropriate risk actions.
• Support regulatory and rating agency ERM related requirements, as appropriate.
• Support and enhance our ERM function, demonstrating technological solutions to bring efficiencies, review and challenge to how the risk framework operates and make suggestions for improvement.
• Represent ERM at cross-functional committee and working group meetings and share knowledge from meetings with the rest of the ERM team. Support raising the profile of the function across the Company through presentations and production of materials

Skills, knowledge and experience

The successful candidate will:

• Have experience in writing reports and communicating technical information confidently in a way that is easy to understand, digest and apply.
• Analyse data and information and draw conclusions
• Have a good grounding in insurance business models/ underwriting products and technical risk knowledge.
• Bring together general business knowledge and technical risk knowledge to support thematic/ business specific threat and opportunity assessments.
• Work collaboratively with and influence stakeholders at varying levels of seniority across the business.
• Be able to communicate well with the ERM team and document own work thoroughly.
• Be able to understand new or unfamiliar topics by asking well-targeted questions and identify and relay key risk factors.
• Have strong organisational and time leadership skills.
• High School Diploma or equivalent
• 1-2 years of direct experience

Who we are:

Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory and investment operations around the world.

We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better

We enjoy the everyday | We think further

What’s in it for you:

In keeping with the values of the Markel Style, we strive to support our employees in living their lives to the fullest at home and at work. 

• We offer competitive benefit programs that help meet our diverse and changing environment as well as support our employees’ needs at all stages of life. 
• All full-time employees have the option to select from multiple health, dental and vision insurance plan options and optional life, disability, and AD&D insurance.  We also offer a 401(k) with employer match