Job Title: Senior Enterprise Risk Consultant
Target Start Date:1st June
Contract Type: 12month Fixed Term Contract, Full Time, Job Share option available
Salary Range: up to £70,000
Location:Reigate, Eastleigh
Senior Enterprise Risk Consultant: We have a great opportunity for a Risk Specialist on an initial 12 month fixed term contract. As a Senior Enterprise Risk Consultant, you’ll provide independent oversight and constructive challenge across a broad range of strategic and operational risks. You’ll act as a trusted partner to the business, supporting leaders to identify, assess and manage risk effectively in line with our risk appetite.
You’ll contribute to the ongoing development of our Enterprise Risk Management Framework, helping ensure it remains robust, proportionate and aligned with regulatory expectations.
Main Responsibilities:
- Partner with the 1st Line to embed strong risk ownership and accountability
- Provide expert advice, guidance and insight to support effective risk management
- Deliver constructive challenge on risk assessments, controls and mitigation plans
- Support the application of the Enterprise Risk Framework (including RCSAs, risk appetite, incident management, and scenario analysis)
- Lead or support thematic reviews, identifying trends and recommending improvements
- Monitor and report on risk exposures, escalating key issues where appropriate
- Provide independent oversight of strategic change and transformation activity
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across the business
- Promote a positive, transparent and proactive risk culture
- Contribute to the evolution of risk policies, frameworks and methodologies
Skills and experience:
- We’re looking for someone who brings experience, curiosity and a collaborative mindset:
- Experience in Enterprise Risk, Operational Risk or a 2nd Line oversight role within insurance or financial services
- Strong understanding of risk frameworks, governance and regulatory expectations (PRA/FCA)
- A track record of providing effective challenge and influencing senior stakeholders
- Experience supporting risk processes such as ORSA, stress testing or risk reporting
- Ability to interpret complex information and translate it into clear, actionable insight
- Confident communicator, able to build trusted relationships across all levels
- Commercial awareness and a pragmatic, solutions‑focused approach
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities
- Professional qualifications (e.g. IRM, CII, ICA) are desirable but not essential.
At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.
Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:
Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.
Supporting your Wealth- 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
Supporting you and your Family- Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.
Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.
Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave.
About Ageas:
We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK.Our Peoplehelp Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.
As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone.
We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.
Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements. To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.
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