Head of Financial Risk Management

Generali is a major player in the global insurance industry - a strategic and highly important sector for the growth, development, and welfare of modern societies. Over almost 200 years, we have built a multinational Group that is present in more than 60 countries, with 470 companies and nearly 80,000 employees. Our Group aims to become the standard bearer and industry leader in the European retail insurance market, building on our existing base of 50 million retail clients, out of an overall total of 72 million.

Generali Investments Luxembourg S.A. manages traditional and alternative investments (i.e. through UCITS and AIF investment vehicles) on an international scale with the experience and professionalism of the team of experts at the Generali Group, in addition to the world-class investment firms available through its funds offerings.

The Financial Risk Management team is part of the Risk Management department and interacts with other teams of the risk department, the Company’s structures and the risk management functions of Generali Investments Companies, during all phases of the products’ life cycle, from structuring of the investment process, the determination of the risk profile and Key Risk Indicators, investments/disinvestments and on-going risk monitoring, analyzing and managing the risk of the funds under management.

Within the Financial Risk Management team, the Head of Financial Risk Management - Alternative Assets leads and is responsible of the activities related to the management of Alternative Assets and is in charge of defining methodologies and solutions to monitor the risks of the managed products.

Main tasks:

- Providing her/his independent view / insights of key investment risks affecting Generali Investments Luxembourg S.A. (GIL) portfolios
- Promoting sound investment risk management practices and enhance risk and control culture within GIL
- Participate in the periodic review of all risk policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with the obligations laid down in the AIFM regulatory framework (including but not limited to AIFMD 231/2013, CSSF Circulars 18/698, 19/733, 20/752)
- Lead the team to ensure successful management of all the portfolio risk matters of GIL
- Assess, review and analyze all risks for private assets, like market, liquidity, counterparty, credit, operational, investment compliance and sustainability risks reports on a regular basis
- Perform ad-hoc analyses and reporting to help address real-time demands from senior management and portfolio managers
- Maintain input and data quality of the risk management systems
- Review of fund documents and legal agreements from risk perspective to make sure they are in line with regulatory requirements
- Support the internal and external audit on risk management topics
- Support the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and Conducting Officer responsible of the Risk Management in developing, executing the maintenance and enhancement of Generali risk management capabilities to ensure internal and regulatory compliance
- Stakeholders support - explaining calculations, and fulfilling ad hoc requests
- Process optimization - developing best practices, increasing efficiency, enhancing capabilities, and mitigating risks
- Ensuring compliance - developing, maintaining and adhering to procedures
- Project support - partnering with other business units
- Presentation - delivering analytical presentations for internal and external stakeholders
- Escalate issues, concerns, breaches, inconsistencies to the CRO and risk Conducting Officer, promote a culture of knowledge sharing and swift escalation to the direct report when needed;
- Support internally the teams responsible for new investment fund products and new projects/initiatives
- Prepare the Funds Risk Profiles for CRO review
- Perform pre-deal (ex-ante) Risk Management assessment and Risk Opinion
- Present - deliver analytical presentations for internal and external stakeholders
- Keep updated of industry and regulatory trends in risk management modelling tools/techniques and overall risk management process

The completion of the above tasks requires a strong cooperation with other Generali’s departments and entities such as Risk, Legal and Tax, Business Lines and Back Offices as well as other financial institutions and clients.

**Requirements**:

- Graduate / Master’s degree in finance / risk management or equivalent qualification
- At least 10 years of relevant professional experience in risk management or related functions in an asset management companies, advisory firms or banks
- Mandatory: Strong experience in at least one of alternative investments in illiquid assets: private debt, private equity, infrastructure or real estate
- Strong analytical, quantitative, investigative, and reporting skills
- Experience in dealing with a highly regulated environment (in particular AIFMD)
- Hands-on, with experience in managing people, processes, and multiple stakeholders
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