Senior Risk Analyst

What if you could use your risk expertise to strengthen decision making across a complex insurance business?

Position: Senior Risk Analyst • Location: London / Hybrid • Employment Type: Full time (Employee).

Responsibilities

• Providing insight to the business: Bringing curiosity and judgment to every interaction, delivering high‑quality risk insights that support better business decisions, tenaciously delivering recommendations and supporting continuous improvement through regular engagement with business functions.
• Stakeholder engagement: Working closely with senior stakeholders across multiple functions, participating in business forums to understand priorities and providing insight and constructive challenge. Building trusted relationships and becoming a recognised Risk contact across QBE European Operations.
• Technical expertise and delivery:
  • Coordinating and overseeing review and challenge of RCSAs, identifying key themes, control weaknesses and areas of focus.
  • Supporting timely completion of RCSAs across the portfolio and addressing gaps or quality issues.
  • Reviewing and challenging issues and incidents, including closure verification, data quality validation and compliance with standards.
  • Providing inputs and insight into risk reports and dashboards for management committees.
  • Supporting the implementation of the QBE ERM Framework in line with Group standards.
  • Representing Risk in relevant forums and providing confident, value‑adding challenge.
  • Collaborating closely with Risk colleagues and wider assurance teams to deliver as one function.
• Communicating clearly and credibly with senior stakeholders, presenting findings and recommendations with impact and being open to feedback, while actively role‑modeling QBE’s DNA and inclusive culture.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in risk management, audit, or a related assurance environment.
• Experience working within, or closely with, the general insurance industry.
• Deep understanding of Risk and Control Self Assessments, issue and incident management, and risk reporting.
• Confidence engaging with senior stakeholders, providing challenge and clearly articulating messages.
• Strong analytical capability, with the ability to turn data into meaningful insights.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including report writing.
• Commercial awareness and strong attention to detail.
• Ability to operate at pace with strong organisational skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.

Benefits

• 30 days holiday a year with the option to buy up to 2 additional days.
• Pension – automatically enrolled in the QBE pension plan, receiving employer contributions of 10% of basic salary.
• Private medical insurance – fully comprehensive private medical cover for you and all family.
• Short‑term remote work abroad – up to 20 days per year to work remotely from certain locations abroad.

Key Skills

• Analytical Thinking
• Commercial Acumen
• Critical Thinking
• Customer Service
• Detail‑Oriented
• Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
• Financial Markets
• Financial Modeling
• Intentional Collaboration
• Managing Performance
• Process Improvements
• Risk Management
• Risk Mitigation Strategies
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Management

Equal Employment Opportunity

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

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