Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

The purpose of this role is to develop and deliver top-tier risk management services to facilitate business retention, acquisition, and growth, while assisting customers in comprehensively understanding and managing their risks to reduce their impact. This role involves evaluating and enhancing customers' risk management controls, implementing best practices, and contributing to thought leadership by educating on current and emerging risks through various mediums.

Risk Solutions, Financial Lines

 

 

Maternity Cover 12 Months

Flexible start date November 2026 -January 2027

Part-time or full-time - to suit the right candidate

 

 

We require temporary maternity cover in our Financial Lines Risk Solutions team to support QBE internal and external customers across a range of business risks and insurance portfolios including professional indemnity, management liability, commercial crime, employment practices liability, healthcare, and life sciences.

 

We aim to provide timely information about a wide range of risks to our policyholders and provide practical tools and advice needed to manage those risks. This range includes regulatory, professional, and management risk across a variety of hazard areas including negligence, crime and fraud, information and technology, people, and third-party risks. 

 

This is a flexible opportunity for someone who has either:

 

• a risk, compliance, claims, or legal background, and can apply their experience to a customer-facing environment to deliver risk advice, risk guidance materials, events and individual client advice; or,

 

• assistant / support experience and can support the team to organise webinars and events; present, publicise, and manage risk advisory content; and provide operational support while learning about risk management in the process. 

 

There is potential for this placement to develop into a full-time role, along with greater involvement in customer-facing work, if the right skills and mind-set are demonstrated during the placement.

 

 

Risk Advisory Role key traits:

 

• Confident in a risk advisory capacity (in-house or commercially) being able to tailor your content and approach to a range of internal and external stakeholders including policy holders - from micro-businesses to corporate clients, brokers, and underwriters.
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• Experience of delivering effective risk management products and services such as guidance notes, briefing documents, webinars / seminars, risk assessment tools, and  templated risk control documents. 
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• Solid understanding of enterprise risk management and linkages with governance, quality assurance, and compliance, and be adept in applying the principles and critical thinking of these in a range of situations.
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• Fundamental will be your curiosity in the risk and compliance environment, best practice models and approaches, a commitment to developing and learning, and the right balance of critical-thinking, creativity, and collaboration to identify risk issues and create solutions for our customers.

 

 

Support role key traits:

• You’ll need to be organised, thorough, with excellent presentation skills and the ability to communicate confidently with a range of stakeholders to support delivery of products and services.
• Partially developed skills and knowledge that apply for the risk advisory role would be advantageous but are not essential.

•  For both roles: Proficient in the use of MS365 Apps to present risk educational and promotional content to the highest quality standards.   Data literate and confident at handling and manipulating information using AI to bring process efficiency to your every day.undefinedEmpathetic to customer needs and a desire to add value beyond the immediate request. Thorough, conscientious, with a high-quality approach and continuous improvement mindset in all aspects of your work. Proactively collaborative with a range of stakeholders within QBE and both customer and supply side externally. You must be reliable, trustworthy, have initiative, and be able to think for yourself to work independently and proactively.      

Skills:

Analytical Thinking, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Financial Products, Insurance Underwriting, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Negotiation, Presenting with Impact, Risk Appetite, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Management, Team Management, Thought Leadership

How to Apply:

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.

Experience in risk, compliance, claims, or legal roles, or assistant/support experience; proficiency in MS365 apps; data literacy and AI process efficiency; strong analytical, critical thinking, decision making, and stakeholder management skills.

Key Responsibilities

• delivering risk management services
• evaluating risk controls
• supporting webinars and events

Skills & Tools

Microsoft 365

Job Details

• Category: Business Operations
• Seniority: Mid Level
• Commitment: Full Time, Temporary
• Workplace: Remote — United Kingdom or London
• Languages: English

About QBE

An insurance and risk management company providing services to support business retention and growth. — Industry: Finance