Head of Enterprise Risk Management

Join Our Leadership Team as Head of Enterprise Risk Management

We are recruiting a Head of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) to lead, innovate, and shape AXAs enterprise risk management at a strategic level. This pivotal role will contribute to the strategic direction of our risk management function, offering the opportunity to influence our organisation’s risk landscape, promoting resilience and ensuring compliance across all areas to support our commitment to excellence.

We are seeking an accomplished senior professional, capable of confidently supporting the CRO and assuming a key leadership role within the team. 

If you are ready to lead and inspire in a rapidly evolving environment, and seek a role with clear succession opportunities, this could be the perfect fit for you.

About The Role

As Head of Enterprise Risk, you will be at the forefront of identifying, assessing, and managing a broad spectrum of risks—including operational, regulatory, technological, reputational, and resilience-related threats. Reporting directly to the Chief Risk Officer and working closely with the Executive Risk Committee and Board Risk Committee, you will provide expert guidance, challenge, and strategic direction to safeguard our organisation’s future.

What You’Ll Be Doing:

• Lead the Enterprise Risk function aligned with our Risk Management Framework and regulatory standards.
• Develop and execute the enterprise risk strategy, ensuring alignment with risk appetite and corporate objectives.
• Provide thought leadership on emerging risks, regulatory developments, and industry best practices.
• Collaborate with the Risk Leadership team to craft and implement a comprehensive enterprise risk strategy.
• Oversee frameworks for operational risk management, including risk identification, incident management, scenario analysis, and key risk indicators.
• Lead risk assessments for significant business changes and outsourcing arrangements.
• Oversee second-line challenge and insights related to technology, cyber, data, and third-party risks.
• Maintain and refine the risk management framework to reflect organisational risk tolerance and strategic goals.
• Prepare and present insightful updates for Governance & Reporting
• Drive continuous improvement in risk governance, internal controls, and reporting frameworks.
• Engage with key stakeholders to promote a risk-aware culture and ensure alignment on risk initiatives.

About You

The ideal candidate will possess exceptional analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills, enabling them to effectively influence and engage stakeholders at all levels.

•    An accomplished risk professional with extensive experience (10+ years) in enterprise risk management with in-depth knowledge of non-financial and operational risk frameworks, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices, including ORSA and resilience frameworks. 
•    Proven leadership skills with a strategic mindset to elevate the risk function and motivate team members to achieve key objectives
•    Deep understanding of regulatory requirements, operational risks, and emerging threats.
•    Ability to work within strict deadlines, alongside a solid understanding of core processes, structures, and controls.
•    Excellent communicator capable of influencing at all levels of the organisation.
•    Strong influencing and challenging skills to drive behavioral and risk change across the organisation.
•    A collaborative leader fostering innovation, challenge, and continuous improvement.
•    Relevant qualification to degree level, with commitment to complete certificate in insurance.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team, and our customers. You'll work away from home majority of your working week. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events.

This role is an allocated Controlled Function under Fitness & Probity Regime, which means the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced level of background screening requirements. You can find more information on axa.ie/careers.

As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in Ireland and/or the United Kingdom.

Would you like to wake up every day driven and inspired by our noble mission and to work together as one global team to empower people to live a better life? Here at AXA we strive to lead the transformation of our industry. We are looking for talented individuals who come from varied backgrounds, think differently and want to be part of this exciting transformation by challenging the status quo so we can push AXA - a leading global brand and one of the most innovative companies in our industry - onto even greater things.

In a fast-evolving world and with a presence in 64 countries, our 166,000 employees and exclusive distributors anticipate change to offer services and solutions tailored to the current and future needs of our 103 million customers.

Proud to be part of the AXA Group, at AXA Ireland our values are at the heart of everything we do. We work together as One AXA, embracing our differences to make our teams great. We believe integrity, courage and our customer-first approach is what makes us a great place to work. AXA is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from across all communities.

One of the best things about joining AXA is our rewards package. At AXA Ireland, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package reflects that. You can expect to receive:

• •    Competitive salary with annual review
• •    Annual company & performance-based bonus
• •    Contributory pension scheme (up to 10% employer contributions)
• •    Life Assurance
• •    Generous annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• •    AXA employee discounts
• •    Education support and plenty of learning opportunities.

AXA is proud to support the needs of our employees and as such understands everyone has individual work and home life responsibilities. We are therefore happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, should this be a requirement for you.

At AXA, we want to become one of the most inspiring companies to work for and to achieve this ambition, we need the best talent to come and work for us. We look for candidates with the right skills and values to join us and selection is based on a fair and equal process. As a financial services company, all successful candidates will require employment checks, so we can ensure regulatory compliance.

We’re proud to be committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all backgrounds. 

AXA Insurance dac consider applicants on the basis of skills, experience & qualifications and without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, disability or any other legally protected status.