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Who is Allstate:
Allstate Insurance Company of Canada is a leading home and auto insurer focused on providing its customers prevention and protection products and services for every stage of life. The company is proud to have been named a Best Employer in Canada for nine consecutive years and prioritizes supporting employees and fostering an inclusive, welcoming corporate culture. Allstate is committed to making a positive difference in the communities in which it operates through partnerships with charitable organizations, employee giving and volunteerism. Serving Canadians since 1953, Allstate strives to provide reassurance with its “You’re in Good Hands®” promise.
Through our Employee Value Proposition, Opportunity, Flexibility, Community, Diversity and Family, we have worked hard to develop and nurture a culture where employees feel valued, experience personal growth, have career options and truly enjoy the work they do.
Role Designation: Hybrid
Benefits to joining Allstate
- Flexible Work Arrangements
- Employee discounts (15% on auto and property insurance, plus many other products and services)
- Good Office program (receive up to 400$ back after purchasing office equipment)
- Student Loan Payment Matching Program for Government Student loans
- Comprehensive Retirement Savings Program with employer matched contributions
- Annual Wellness allowance to support employees with improving health and wellbeing
- Personal reflection day
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Working within the community and giving back!
Job description:
Our team is growing, and we are actively looking to hire a Senior Manager, Quantifiable Risks & GRC. Reporting to the Director, Corporate Risk, you will be accountable for the overall risk identification and assessment and ensuring risk assessments are conducted in a consistent manner by Business areas, aligned with Allstate Canada Group (ACG)’s methodology. The Senior Manager Corporate Risk GRC will build relationships at all levels of the organization to help facilitate change and where appropriate provide value-added recommendations to management with a focus on risk mitigation and improved profitability.
Accountabilities:
- Partner and engage with cross-functional peers and other stakeholders, establishing collaborative and productive relationships
- Ability to resolve escalated conflicts across multiple parties including the team, department, and customer level
- Delegates and prioritizes work in accordance with the role and scope of work to be completed
- Provides oversight over quantifiable risks and control functions in order to effectively enable sound risk strategies and alignment with regulatory programs (OSFI, FISRA, FSB etc.)
- Assesses risk incidents and collaborates with other departments to control them
- Develops risk management policies and procedures to create awareness at the department level
- Leads strategies for large-scale, complex, department-wide initiatives
- Ability to cultivate and maintain excellent professional working relationships with key members of senior management, Allstate Brand Sales leaders and audit staff.
- Ability to think strategically, identify, analyze, and provide business-case solutions to complex problems. – includes short-, mid-, and long-term roadmaps and moving from strategy to execution
- Initiate, Manage and conduct quality reviews (agent, service & brokers), including report preparation, and escalation of relevant matters identified in the process to management.
- Improve the Business – Create efficiencies and enhance existing processes
- Proactively manage and meet regulatory requirements that affect the organization
- Strategically collaborate with the Director level
- Providing operational leadership and direction, coaching and mentoring a capable team of direct reports.
- Recommend preventative and detective control mechanisms and requirements to key business partners and processes to ensure compliance with overall ACG and regulatory, legal and ethical policies to ensure adequate mitigation of risks. This includes setting context and direction and prescribing limits to direct reports and implementing feedback loops.
- Design processes to eliminate or mitigate potential risks
- Manage New Agent & New Business Quality Review teams and escalate patterns, trends and significant control deficiencies
- Recommend Process improvements to Sales & Service Function
- Lead GRC initiatives
- Develop & implement Policies
- Oversee and govern over Investment, insurance, financial and strategic risks
- Own climate risk framework, scenario analysis, internal controls framework, issues management framework, loss events guideline, internal audit findings, financial risks oversight.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors in Business or Science
- CIP and/or CRM and/or CFE or FRM actively pursuing same
- 5+ years of experience in property and casualty underwriting or internal audit nice to have
- 3+ years of previous people manager experience and large teams.
- Demonstrate capacity for effective decision making and drawing reasonable conclusions.
- Strong written & verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Intermediate level proficiency in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint software.
- Complex decision-making skills
Bonus qualification:
- Accounting designation preferred
Allstate Canada Group has policies and practices that provide workplace accommodations. If you require accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
