Risk Modeller

**Our organisation**:
**Ageas** is a listed international insurance Group with a heritage spanning close to 200 years. We offer Retail and Business customers Life and Non-Life insurance products, and we are also engaged in reinsurance activities.

Our customers are at the heart of our business, and our products and services are designed to anticipate, manage, and cover their risks through a wide range of solutions designed for their needs, both today and in the future.

We are one of Europe's larger insurance companies and we are also well represented in Asia. In total, Ageas is on the ground in 13 countries (Belgium, the UK, Portugal, Turkey, China, Malaysia, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, and the Philippines) through a combination of wholly owned subsidiaries and long-term partnerships with strong financial institutions and key distributors.

Ageas ranks among the market leaders in the countries in which it operates. Every day, more than 44,000 skilled and committed employees are at the service of nearly 45 million customers. Our Group has at its foundation a set of core values - Care, Dare, Deliver, and Share - representing who we are and how we work. As a “Supporter of your life” we seek to create social and economic value for our customers, employees, partners, investors, and society at large.

Ageas has been re-certified as **Top Employer** in **202**4**.**

**Your function**:
We are looking for 2** risk modellers** at different seniority levels with both a solid quantitative background, as well as good knowledge of financial markets and the insurance industry.

You will become part of a **multidisciplinary team composed of financial and actuarial professionals** whose main task is to ensure the development and embedding of Group models and policies related to Financial and Life Risk.

Your tasks will be situated in the **f**inancial risk modelling domain**:

- You contribute to the methodological development and improvement of the Group’s models for economic capital (Solvency II Standard Formula and Internal Model);
- You contribute to the Group’s Valuation model for Insurance Liabilities, with a specific focus on risk-neutral stochastic modelling (equity, interest rates, spreads,...) techniques for valuing embedded options;
- You actively support the design and improvement of economic (forecasting) scenarios;
- You contribute to the Group’s testing framework in order to validate model outcomes.

**Your profile**:

- Working experience in the financial industry (insurance, banking, asset management) is a plus;
- You have knowledge of Financial Markets, Financial Valuation & Modelling, Market Risk Management, Financial Regulation (Solvency II)
- Experience & proven competence in implementing mathematical models in Excel VBA. More advanced programming languages like MATLAB, R, Python are a plus;
- You are culturally aware and able to work in team with people with different backgrounds;
- You have excellent communication skills, both written and orally and are able to present complex materials in a structured and comprehensive way;
- You are strongly motivated to learn, proactive, flexible, dedicated and able to work on an independent basis;
- You possess strong coordination, planning and organizational skills;
- You are a result-oriented problem solver;
- You have an active (written and oral) knowledge of English (French or Dutch is a plus).

**We offer**:

- The possibility of (maximum 50%) home working;
- A dynamic, multicultural working environment;
- An interesting and extensive salary package (including meal vouchers, eco vouchers, hospitalization, disability and group insurance, additional child benefit, mobile allowance and intervention in the internet reimbursement,...);
- The possibility to optimize part of your salary package through a flexible income plan;
- A corporate culture where you are encouraged to share your views and opinions;
- A flat organizational structure with close collaboration and communication with management and cross departments;
- An extensive range of learning & development opportunities through our online learning platform;
- The opportunity to further develop yourself and to be part of a great team at a Top employer in Belgium. Find out more about it here.

**Interested?**: