Security Analyst Internship

Kickstart your career in cybersecurity and strategic anticipation Join a global team, develop expertise in cyber threats, and shape security strategies for a leading insurer. Embrace diversity, innovation, and international collaboration. Apply now for a 6-month internship starting March 2025

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 Group Operations, 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

About The Job
YOUR FUTURE FIELD OF EXPRESSION
AXA's purpose is to "Act for human progress by protecting what matters". Protection has always been at the heart of what we do, helping individuals, businesses and societies thrive. AXA has always been a leader, an innovator, an entrepreneurial company, promoting progress in all its dimensions.

The mission of our entity,
AXA Group Operations
(AXA
GO),
is to support and empower all AXA teams in order to achieve this common ambition.

Innovation and execution are our main levers to achieve this goal. They guide all GO teams on a daily basis:

• Innovation: create and provide the foundations and opportunities for AXA teams to develop innovative solutions to meet the needs of our current and future customers;
• Execution: Creating the environment that will enable our teams around the world to bring their ideas to life and deliver on the promises made to our customers.

Our Concrete Objectives Are To

• Strengthen value creation for the entire AXA Group;
• Support and encourage innovation within AXA, in collaboration with the Group Business Innovation division;
• Automate and embed simplicity in our daily work, ensuring that we contribute effectively to AXA's mission and strategy.

AXA Group Operations' Teams Are Composed Of

• Group Security: protects employees, our stakeholders and the AXA brand by securing information and managing cybersecurity, physical security and operational resilience;
• Group IT Services and Group CIO : define AXA's overall IT strategy; promote IT convergence within entities and provide them with shared services;
• Group Emerging Technology and Data: defines the Group's data maturity ambitions; builds and manages the community; conducts research and expertise; assists less mature entities in terms of data; identifies cutting-edge technologies and develops disruptive ones for entities; creates use cases on specific technologies with entities;
• Group Procurement and Sourcing : defines AXA's purchasing strategy, its guidelines and Group standards; manages relationships with our strategic suppliers and accelerates business purchasing;
• GO Strategy/Finance & Group Strategic Project Management : ensures the consistency of global projects with the Group's strategy; ensures the implementation and performance of strategic projects;
• GO General Secretary & Risk: defines the risk management framework and ensures that it is well integrated into the design of our products and procedures in order to promote decision-making in a more secure environment.
• GO Transformation: accelerates agile transformation within Group Operations; establishes and implements a common HR communication and strategy for our division.
• AXA Business Services: offers shared services aligned with AXA's business priorities.

Main missions

• YOUR FUTURE CONTRIBUTION

In This Context, You Will Join The Security Strategy & Awareness Department Within Group Security. Reporting To The Head Of Security Strategy & Awareness, Your Main Missions Will Be To

• Accompany and support the strategic intelligence project on the evolution of the threat and security-related regulations for Group Security:

• Source identification and analysis

• Design and writing of deliverables in English (reports, briefings, presentations)
• Writing and contribution to security briefings
• Development of anticipation and intelligence skills of teams
• Preparation of anticipatory scenarios
• Support for community management (e.g., Intelligence & Anticipation, Security Public Affairs)

• Contribute to other team activities:

• Préparation d'articles pour les newsletters de Group Security (e.g., News Roundup, One Security Newsletter, AXA Security Newsletter).

• Accompany and support AXA Group Security's Thought Leadership activities, e.g., coordinate the necessary actions in our external engagements and align stakeholders, identify all opportunities and share them internally/externally to enhance AXA's contribution
• Support for activities related to the security strategy
• Support for the team's research projects on cybersecurity issues, new technologies and potential threats.

… You Will Develop

• Anticipatory skills in a large international group
• Knowledge on cybersecurity, business continuity, operational resilience, threats...
• Multicultural project management skills with a wide variety of stakeholders to coordinate in parallel
• Your autonomy

Expected Skills & Experience
We are looking for someone with the following experience and skills:

VOTRE BACKGROUND

… You Like

• International security issues: country monitoring, cybersecurity, etc.
• Understanding the strategic challenges of a large international group
• Work in a multicultural and cross-functional team
• Challenge yourself by learning quickly on new and evolving topics
• Deepen your knowledge of the financial sector (insurance, banking)

Education
: Political Science, International Relations

Soft Skills

• Ability to analyze and synthesize
• Organization
• Dynamic and collaborative
• professional (management of confidential documents, meeting deadlines, discretion, etc.)
• Curious, questioning the existing, force of proposal
• caring, attentive, regular taker and giver of feedback
• Stress management and tight schedules

Compétences Techniques / Hard Skills

• Knowledge of security issues in a digital world (General Data Protection Regulation, NIS, DORA, etc.)
• Knowledge of cyber threats and cybersecurity market developments

Languages: English and French fluent. The documents will all be written in English and you will be required to express yourself in English during the meetings.

Computer Tools

• Office 365 Suite

What We Offer
We bring together the expertise, cultural diversity and creativity of over 8,000 employees worldwide and we're committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of employment (gender, LGBT+, disabled persons, or people of different origins) and to promoting Diversity & Inclusion by creating a work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect, and where individual differences are valued.