Property and Casualty Insurance Actuary - Lévis, Canada - Desjardins Group

Description

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Job Level
AC-11

As an integrated risk management practice leader for Desjardins General Insurance Group (DGIG), you have cross-sector visibility of all risk management activities across all levels of the organization. You are in charge of managing the activities of the unit's employees and providing them with expert support. You serve as the leading expert and decision-maker for developing integrated risk management practices. In this position, you ensure quality work is completed on time for executive audiences (management committee and board of directors).

DGIG operates in a fast-changing and increasingly complex environment. The risks DGIG faces are similarly complex and rapidly evolving. In order to adapt, you demonstrate leadership, influence, agility, curiosity, careful planning, resourcefulness and resilience. If you have an interest in management and consider yourself a property and casualty insurance generalist with broad knowledge of actuarial, business, investment and regulatory matters, this position could be right for you.

Your key focus areas include creating value for our members and clients, and ensuring pragmatism in our collaborations. This position requires you to work closely with the Chief Risk Officer and provide them with support. Execution of activities requires working closely with DGIG's corporate actuarial and finance teams and with Desjardins Group's other risk management teams.

General Information on the Position

Main responsibilities

• Coordinate your unit's activities for DGIG employees, including the own risk and solvency assessment, the risk appetite framework, the integrated risk management framework and the risk report
• Ensure the quality and timeliness of DGIG employees' files in your unit
• Help your unit's employees monitor environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks, reputation risk, strategic risk and culture risk
• Help your unit's employees develop integrated risk management practices
• Help your manager with certain management tasks, including performance reviews, hiring and planning
• Handle highly strategic files to support the Chief Risk Officer, particularly with implementing the 3 lines of defence model at DGIG
• Ensure that risk management practices are consistent between insurers and Desjardins Group
• As an integrated risk management expert, advise and assist your clients and partners to help them position, plan, develop, execute and monitor strategic projects and initiatives under your responsibility
• Develop and update policies, standards, models and programs to support your unit's strategic projects and initiatives
• Identify and analyze issues. Report major issues. Diagnose issues and make recommendations to decision-making bodies
• Represent your organization before senior management committees and decision-making bodies.

Other working conditions

• Work place: Position located in Lévis, Montréal, Toronto, Mississauga or Aurora, depending on the applicant selected. The work arrangement for the position is flexible hybrid work #LI-Hybrid
• Travel : Occasional inter-office travel required
• Number of jobs available : 1

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in actuarial science, mathematics or statistics
• A minimum of four years of relevant experience
• Experience in enterprise risk management (an asset)

Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered.

• CAS Fellow or Associate (an asset)
• For vacant positions available in Quebec, please note that knowledge of French is required.

Specific knowledge

• Strong communication skills in French and English, both oral and written due to the nature of the duties or work tools or because the position involves interactions with English-speaking partners, members and/or clients.

Desjardins Cross-sector skills
Action oriented, Customer Focus, Differences, Nimble learning

Key competencies for the job
Ambiguity, Communicates effectively, Decision quality, Drive results, Interpersonal Savvy, Strategic mindset

Work Location
150, rue des Commandeurs Lévis

Trade Union
Non Syndiqué

Unposting Date


Job Family
Actuarial Services (FG)

Desjardins Group is the largest cooperative financial group in Canada, and one of the largest employers in the country. It offers a full range of financial products and services and is home to a wealth of expertise in property and casualty insurance, life and health insurance, wealth management, services for businesses of all sizes, securities brokerage, asset management, venture capital, and secure, leading-edge virtual access methods.