Junior Consultant - - Operational Risk and​/or Resilience (m​/f​/d

130 years of trust, time to shape what's next. Allianz Group is one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers - built on over a century of stability, expertise, and financial strength. Allianz Services is where that legacy meets the future. 8,200+ people. Eight countries. Three continents. We deliver specialized services to clients within Allianz Group, powered by AI, advanced analytics, and a mindset that refuses to stand still.

From core insurance operations to engineering and consulting services, we reimagine how insurance works. What truly sets us apart are our people and the trusted partnerships we build, anchored in our values of expertise, integrity, and empowerment. We don't support the business. We shape it.

Our global service line (GSL) provides project and RUN services to Allianz entities. As an inhouse consulting team, we proactively advise our clients (entities) on strategic developments, leverage our internal knowledge of the organization and implement innovative solutions in the area of safeguarding. Our team focusses on projects and engagements in the domains of (1) operational risk management with focus on Non-Financial Risk Management (NFRM) and (2) resilience, which covers topics as Business Continuity Management, Incident Coordination, IT Service Continuity Management and others.

If you are experienced in either operational risk or resilience and have a strong background in consulting or project management, the following responsibilities and tasks might interest you…

• Work as part of a project team with clients, bearing responsibility for specific tasks, the quality of your deliverables and ensuring project milestones are reached
• Take responsibility for content delivery as part of (sub-)work streams on projects, collaborate with other consultants and ensure timely and proactive communication with project or workstream leads about project progress
• Prepare and contribute to communications and project timelines for the respective assigned activities
• Contribute to business development and client pitches under the guidance of an Engagement Manager or Principal Consultant.
• Help increase the team’s expertise with focus on safeguarding areas for project and service creation by proactively sharing own best practices, new trends or other relevant information to continuously improve own and the team’s knowledge management.
• Contribute to internal projects within Allianz Services, including internal trainings and exchanges, team events, etc.
• Contribute to the day-to-day operations of the assigned tasks.

• University degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 1-2 years of experience in safeguarding functions (e.g. operational risk management with focus on Non-financial risks, resilience, or project management), including internships or working student positions.
• Relevant business experience on Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Operational Risk Management or Internal Risk & Controls Systems which preferably includes designing and implementing risk & control frameworks, understanding risk methodologies. Alternatively, relevant business experience in Business continuity Management, IT Service Continuity Management, Incident or Crisis coordination, or other resilience relevant areas.
• Experience in conducting risk assessments, monitoring, reporting, internal controls testing or implementing mitigation solutions is a plus.
• Knowledge of insurance industry, financial services or consulting methodologies, tools, and techniques are preferred.
• Relevant experience in project management, change management, business transformation or initiative development and implementation is desired.
• Experience with managing internal or external clients (consulting) and client focus is desired.
• Good communication skills to communicating with a broad range of audiences and seniority levels in every international set up and excellent command in English to prepare and deliver presentations and reports (other languages are a plus).
• Solving problems mindset and a pronounced capacity for analytical thinking
• PowerPoint and Excel skills (can perform complex functions) are required and experience in other GRC tools are preferred.
• Working language is English, but German language skills are desired and a clear plus as many of our customers are based in Germany.
• We highly welcome candidates with a genuine interest and affinity for Information Technology (IT) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), as these attributes are considered valuable assets to our team.

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location)
• From career development and digital learning programs to…