Go Vendor Risk Officer

**Job Description**:
**About AXA**

As a world-leading insurance company, we act for human progress by protecting what matters. With 153,000 employees in 54 countries working for 105 million customers, we’ve created a truly dynamic and vibrant community. Inclusion and diversity link closely with our values, and together we’re nurturing a culture of respect, for each other, for our customers and the communities around us. Join AXA and you’ll feel like you belong, are included and can thrive. You’ll be able to shape the way you work and truly grow your potential as you seek out new opportunities, push boundaries and benefit people in critical moments of their lives. This is your chance to build the tomorrow you want. Know you can.

**About the entity**

AXA is becoming a sustainable tech-led company and at AXA Group Operations we are one of the major catalysts for this transformation.

We set the tone by triggering and empowering the evolution of our insurance business model through technology and innovation, driving its concrete implementation globally at speed, with a high quality of advisory and execution.

We are present across 17 countries with committed, highly qualified teams. We leverage technology, data, sourcing, security and investment allocation in a global way, but also achieve economies of scale and synergies when necessary.

At AXA GO, we want to be recognized in three fields of action:

- State-of-the-art Data Technology to drive customer experience
- State-of-the-art Procurement & Sourcing to drive efficiency and better manage risks
- High-Performing Global Team for stronger partnerships with AXA entities

**Job position pitch**
You are looking for new challenges, you are passionate about procurement, regulations, vendor risk and thrilled to work within dynamic and international teams, come and join our GO Procurement Team.

**Where will you be in the organization?**

**The division**

You will join GO Procurement Team which is a team integrated in Group Procurement. Our mission is to increase AXA GO entities competitiveness by optimizing the end-to-end Procurement cycle of external spend, while building a high performance and risk-managed supplier based.

Our division is composed of several departments with respective accountabilities:

- GO Procurement Operations
- GO Contingent Labour
- GO Vendor Risk Management
- GO Controls & Compliance
- GO Procurement Transformation & Performance

**The department / team**

You will be part of the team GO Vendor Risk Management reporting to GO Vendor Risk Lead.

**About the job**

**Job purpose**

As the GO Vendor Risk Officer, you will have two main objectives:

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Lead GO vendor risk process compliance with all regulatory requirements**: Continuously adapt & improve vendor risk processes, governance & documentation to new regulations in alignment with Group guidelines
- **
Deliver regulatory reporting obligations**: Ensure AXA GO delivers mandatory elements/reporting on vendors to AXA regulated entities worldwide in collaboration with GO business functions.

**Main missions**

Your responsibilities include:

- GO vendor risk regulatory compliance:_
- Work in close collaboration with Group Risk, Group Procurement and GO Subject Matter Experts (Security, Compliance, Operational Resilience, Legal, Finance ) to ensure end to end source to contract process & vendor risk framework are compliant with any regulatory requirements.
- Provide feedback on Group standards and contribute to continuous improvement and simplification
- Drive continuous training & information to GO & Group procurement teams on vendor risk processes and in particular regulatory requirements
- Drive remediation & reporting on procurement processes, governance & vendor agreements if required in collaboration with GO & Group procurement.
- On DORA:

- Drive vendor agreement & associated services criticality assessment or re-assessment when required in collaboration with risk & procurement teams
- coordinate procurement contribution to concentration risk analysis and exit plan strategies if required.
- Regulatory reporting:_
- Drive Procurement contribution to DORA Register of Information, Solvency II ACOR report for outsourcing in collaboration with GO Business functions
- Set-up and monitor regulatory important/critical vendors & associated contracts and gaps versus regulatory standards. Design status updates and share with AXA entities
- Contribute and/or coordinate AXA entities requests & questions linked to AXA GO vendor agreements for their local regulator (BAFIN, PRA, ACPR )

**Expected skills & experience**

We are looking for someone with the following experience and skills:
**_Experience _**
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in consulting, internal control, audit
- Experience in financial services (insurance/banking) or experience of working with a procurement department would be a plus

**_ Technical Skills:_**
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to summ