Consultant (m/f/d) - Allianz Services - Operational Risk and/or Resilience

87898 | Legal & Compliance | Professional | n.a. | Allianz Services | Full-Time | Permanent

Allianz Services is proud to serve and be part of Allianz Group, one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers. Our global footprint, with more than 8,800 employees located across ten countries and four continents, enables us to unlock value for our partners across the insurance value chain and deliver superior client experience within Allianz Group. At Allianz Services, we have a strong specialization in core insurance operations, shared services, business analytics, engineering, and management consulting. Our people and our trusted relationships with partners are what matter most. These are rooted in our values of compassion, integrity, and expertise and we strive to continuously evolve, improve, and deliver excellence while contributing successfully to the transformation of Allianz. Caring actively for the environment, for people, and for our customers is what makes us a great place to work and together we are shaping a better and more caring tomorrow. Allianz Services is a company which belongs to the legal entity, Allianz Technology SE.

Role overview:

Our global service line (GSL) provides project and RUN services to Allianz entities. As an inhouse consulting team, we proactively advise our clients (entities) on strategic developments, leverage our internal knowledge of the organization and implement innovative solutions in the area of safeguarding. Our team focusses on projects and engagements in the domains of (1) operational risk management with focus on Non-Financial Risk Management (NFRM) and (2) resilience, which covers topics as Business Continuity Management, Incident Coordination, IT Service Continuity Management and others. If you are experienced in either operational risk or resilience, the following responsibilities and tasks might interest you…

Key responsibilities:

• Work as part of a project team with clients, bearing responsibility for specific tasks, the quality of your deliverables and ensuring project milestones are reached.
• Take responsibility for content delivery as part of (sub-)workstreams on projects, collaborate with other consultants and ensure timely and proactive communication with project or workstream leads about project progress.
• Prepare and contribute to communications and project timelines for the respective assigned activities.
• Contribute to business development and client pitches under the guidance of an Engagement Manager or Principal Consultant.
• Help increase the team’s expertise with focus on safeguarding areas for project and service creation by proactively sharing own best practices, new trends or other relevant information to continuously improve own and the team’s knowledge management.
• Contribute to internal projects within Allianz Services, including internal trainings and exchanges, team events, etc.
• Contribute to the day-to-day operations of the assigned tasks.

Key requirements:

• University degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 2+ years of experience in safeguarding functions (e.g. operational risk management with focus on Non-financial risks, resilience, or project management).
• Relevant business experience on Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Operational Risk Management or Internal Risk & Controls Systems which preferably includes designing and implementing risk & control frameworks, understanding risk methodologies. Alternatively, relevant business experience in Business continuity Management, IT Service Continuity Management, Incident or Crisis coordination, or other resilience relevant areas.
• Experience in conducting risk assessments, monitoring, reporting, internal controls testing or implementing mitigation solutions is a plus.
• Knowledge of insurance industry, financial services or consulting methodologies, tools, and techniques are preferred.
• Relevant experience in project management, change management, business transformation or initiative development and implementation is desired.
• Experience with managing internal or external clients (consulting) and client focus is desired.
• Good communication skills to communicating with a broad range of audiences and seniority levels in every international set up and excellent command in English to prepare and deliver presentations and reports (other languages are a plus).
• Solving problems mindset and a pronounced capacity for analytical thinking.
• PowerPoint and Excel skills (can perform complex functions) are required and experience in other GRC tools are preferred.
• Working language is English, but German language skills are desired and a clear plus as many of our customers are based in Germany.
• We highly welcome candidates with a genuine interest and affinity for Information Technology (IT) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), as these attributes are considered valuable assets to our team.

What we offer:

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

Did we spark your interest? Apply now and join us.

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 strong inclusive culture that encourages people to speak their minds, get involved and question the status quo. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and 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 race, ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.

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