Sustainability is an important strategic theme at NN Group. We want to contribute to the transition to a sustainable economy by investing our assets responsibly, by creating a net-zero CO2 asset and underwriting portfolio in 2050, and by providing relevant products and services to support our customers. Sustainability and climate risks can impact our company, through the insurance products we sell, and the assets we invest in. As Senior Sustainability Risk Manager you support in identifying sustainability and climate risks that can impact our company, to define how to best mitigate them and to monitor follow up. Furthermore, you help to define how NN can best adapt its strategy in a fast changing world.

Wat je gaat doen

Within the team Enterprise Risk & Integration (ERI), we are looking for a Senior Risk Manager who helps to identify and monitor our key sustainability risks, contribute to the set-up and execution of the Sustainability Risk Roadmap, further strengthen our risk-control framework, and give solicited and unsolicited advice to multiple stakeholders. Together with three other Risk Managers, you will also help prepare proposals for risk strategy and setting the risk management framework, the overall risk appetite and the limit framework for NN Group. By supporting in identification, assessment and monitoring of sustainability risks you help to safeguard successful execution of NN Group’s strategy, capital position and contribute to long term value creation of our company.

Responsibilities:

Contribute to the themes and activities of the Group Risk Sustainability Center of Expertise (CoE), a.o. performing qualitative and quantitative Sustainability risk assessments, coordinating Sustainability knowledge sessions, developing Sustainability risk dashboard, aligning with Sustainability related reporting requirements and updating our Risk Control Framework and ensuring it is correctly applied at Group and in business units
Contribute to the Sustainability related scenarios of the annual Own Risk & Solvency Assessment (ORSA) Report for NN Group, incl. developing scenarios and stress tests for Group and business units in order to improve and optimize key Sustainability risk strategies, in close cooperation with Capital Management, Risk Modelling & Analytics and Financial Risk Management
Participating actively in one or more workstreams of the Task Force Sustainability in Business programme of NN Group and get aligned with similar workstreams of the local Sustainability programmes at the (inter)national Business Units
Writing and coordinating input from others on external Sustainability related reporting of the NN Group risk profile and Sustainability risk activities included in the annual report, analyst presentations, reports to supervisors and regulators, rating agencies, as well as the internal Sustainability risk reporting on NN Group’s risk profile to the Management Board and the Supervisory Board, while driving the cooperation on this with BUs and other central teams of Group Risk and interacting independently with (external) auditors
Supporting initiatives that support NN Group’s sustainability strategy (main counterparts at NN Group level being Group Strategy, Corporate Relations, Group M&A, Strategic Transformation Office); acting as an Sustainability risk business advisor and being involved into the definition of the business strategy

Climate and sustainability are two relatively new topics within NN. As in insurance company, we are at the forefront on dealing with these risks, as they impact us directly. In this role, you help both to define strategies and requirements how to address these risks, but also to implement the same. You have an important impact on defining NN’s strategy in this area, and contributing to a more sustainable world.

Wat wij jou bieden

NN invests in an inclusive, inspiring work environment and in skills and competences for the future. We match this with employee benefits that are in line with what is needed today and in the future. This way, we offer our employees the opportunity to get the best out of themselves. We offer you:

Salary between €4463 and €9077 depending on your knowledge and experience, based on a 36 hour work week
13th month and holiday allowance are paid with your monthly salary
24 vacation days for a 36 hour working week and one Diversity Day
A modern pension administered by BeFrank
Plenty of training and learning opportunities
NS Business Card 2nd class, which gives you unlimited travel, also privately. Do you prefer to travel with your own transport? Then you can declare the kilometers travelled
Allowances for setting up your home office and for internet use

Wat je meebrengt

You are curious and contact others easily. You dare to challenge with a positive-critical attitude. You love working together with your team, but at the same time, you have no issues with working independently. You like to get the best out of yourself and others. You can provide countervailing power in relation to the strategic change initiatives of NN Group. Because of your analytical skills, you get to the bottom of everything: no detail escapes you. Last, but not least, you are fluent in English.

The relevant experience, education and interests of the new Senior Sustainability Risk Manager are as follows:

An Academic Master’s degree in Actuarial science, Econometrics, Economics, Finance, Financial Risk Management or similar degree
Relevant experience in the Financial sector (minimum 5 years), in the fields of Strategy, Sustainability, Risk Management, Solvency II, Finance or Internal Control
Relevant knowledge of enterprise risk management and/or interest in the risk related sustainability aspects of the Insurance business – preferably in either investment (risk) management or actuarial risk management
Fluent in English (verbal and written)

Met wie je werkt

As Senior Sustainability Risk Manager, you are part of the ERI team, consisting of one head and four other colleagues. At ERI, you will collaborate intensively with another experienced Senior Sustainability Risk Manager. The ERI team is part of the wider ERM team, which consists of twenty professionals in the area of Strategic, Emerging, IT and Operational risk. Most of us are Risk Managers, but we also have colleagues with an IT or Finance background in our midst. We are all very curious and love challenging each other. The atmosphere is open and informal, and as a true team we always have each other’s back. We have different nationalities in the team, so there are lots of opportunities to learn from each other’s cultures as well.

In the CoE, you work with all other risk disciplines within NN Group, to be able to implement sustainability risk management in all different areas of our company.