EEA Governance Associate

EEA Governance Associate: EEA Governance Team

Purpose

As the EEA Governance Associate, you will play a key supporting role in ensuring our governance processes are robust, compliant and continuously improving across the ZIE Ireland EEA Governance team. You will provide coordination and administrative support for key governance activities, ensuring that policies, procedures and regulatory requirements are followed and that key forums, reporting and controls run smoothly.

You will collaborate closely with the team to ensure that the EEA business operates efficiently, effectively and in accordance with agreed rules and frameworks.

This role is an exciting development opportunity for a colleague who wishes to grow into more advanced governance roles over time.

Your Skills and Experience

Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) or relevant experience.
•    Holds or is working towards relevant professional qualifications i.e. CIP, MDI, ACII
•    High level underwriting knowledge, including specific knowledge in Commercial Insurance and/or Retail business.
•    Previous Governance experience an advantage.

Strong industry knowledge

•    Strong organisation and time management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple recurring activities and deadlines.
•    High attention to detail and quality, especially in documentation, minutes, MI and reporting.
•    Good written and verbal communication skills; able to prepare clear emails, minutes, summaries and basic reports for a range of stakeholders.
•    Comfortable using Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint (or similar tools) to support reporting, tracking and documentation.
•    Analytical, commercially aware, and proactive thinker.
•    Discreet with confidential information and able to communicate persuasively.
•    Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus.

Key Accountabilities 

•    Support the EEA sstrategy in alignment with ZIE Ireland’s overall approach. Including ZIE and Group requirements.
•    Reviewing MI (management information) used for governance; perform verification checks for completeness and consistency and support the EEA Governance team in highlighting anomalies or areas requiring clarification.
•    Prepare and maintain minutes and action logs for relevant governance forums ensuring actions, owners and due dates are clearly recorded and followed up.
•    Reviewing, preparing and maintaining evidence for control recommendations, including collection of inputs, maintenance of trackers and documentation of outcomes.
•    Monthly and quarterly governance reporting, ensuring inputs are gathered on time, data is complete and packs are prepared in an accurate and consistent format.
•    Support assurance activity reviews and planning, maintain logs and records of assurance reports, with a view to developing the ability to provide more substantive support for these activities. 
•    Provide administrative support for third party (TP) onboarding and renewals, ensuring documentation, approvals and governance artefacts are complete and appropriately filed, with a view to developing the ability to provide more substantive support for these activities.
•    Support EEA Governance team reporting by coordinating consolidating information and maintaining records of submissions and feedback.
•    Assist in maintaining and updating records of authorities, including documentation of changes, approvals and communication to relevant stakeholders.
•    Support regulatory reporting processes such as CBI complaints reporting, helping to collect and validate inputs and maintain records to support audit trail requirements.
•    Coordinate EEA Governance fora scheduling, including preparation of the calendar, organising meetings and distributing agendas and supporting materials to participants.
•    Support the annual review of EEA Governance Framework, coordinating stakeholder inputs, managing version control and tracking approvals, ensuring updates are communicated and filed, maintaining logs of proposed changes and decisions, and assisting with the communication and implementation of updates.
•    Adhere to Zurich Risk Policy and support regular controls reporting by providing accurate, timely coordination of governance information and documentation.

Who we are

Position is Blacrock-based

If you value an exciting and varied working environment and meet the above requirements, then we are looking forward to receiving your application.

In order to deliver our services, we offer our employees flexible working models and interesting opportunities for further training & development. As a Zurich employee you benefit from a multitude of advantages as well as a strong culture, characterized by acceptance, diversity and team spirit.

At Zurich, we foster a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our purpose and values are designed to protect, inspire confidence and help our employees reach their full potential. We value and defend what is right and promote opportunities for equity among our professionals, regardless of gender, disability, LGBTQ +, race, ethnicity, generations, belief, etc. Together we are committed to delivering on our purpose - Let’s Create a Brighter Future Togethe

Zurich is one of Ireland's leading insurance companies providing a wide range of general insurance and life insurance products and services. The company employs over 1,000 people across its locations in Dublin and Wexford.

Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich) is a leading global multi-line insurer founded more than 150 years ago, which has grown into a business serving more than 82 million customers in more than 200 countries and territories, while delivering industry-leading total shareholder returns.

Reflecting its purpose to ‘create a brighter future together,’ Zurich offers protection services that go beyond traditional insurance, to support its customers in building resilience. Since 2020, the Zurich Forest project supports reforestation and biodiversity restoration in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest.

The Group has more than 65,000 employees and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Zurich Insurance Group Ltd (ZURN) is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and has a level I American Depositary Receipt (ZURVY) program, which is traded over-the-counter on OTCQX. Further information is available at www.zurich.com.