Who are we?

Wakam is a B2B2C insurance company that creates white-label insurance solutions via its Play&Plug® technology platform for more than 80 partners. We provide most of our insurance products through API, and hosts white label insurance solutions via our Play&Plug technology platform.

With a footprint spanning 32 countries and revenue of more than €900 million in 2023, mostly generated outside France, Wakam is the European leader in digital and embedded insurance.

Strongly committed to social responsibility, Wakam is a mission-driven company dedicated to “enabling transparent and impactful insurance".

✯ About the Team

At Wakam, our Risk, Compliance and Supervisory Relations Office, manages risk, and ensures we stay compliant with industry regulations. As change agents, we lead initiatives that boost operational efficiency and agility.

Squad description

Our team is committed to identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks to safeguard Wakam's reputation and financial stability. Additionally, we maintain a culture of compliance, ensuring adherence to industry regulations and standards.

Implementing and monitoring controls to safeguard Wakam's assets and ensure compliance. The Internal Control team establishes and assesses controls to mitigate risks and enhance operational effectiveness within the organisation.

✎ Missions

Reporting to the Chief of Risk & Internal Control, you will participate in all permanent control and risk management activities.

Key responsibilities

• Review, enhance and assess the control plan in connection with risk mapping and incident monitoring
• Coordinate regular risk assessments with control plans and ensure follow-up of corrective action plans
• Maintain process mapping
• Oversee the evaluation and continuous improvement of the internal control system
• Prepare reports for the Operational Risk Committee and the Audit and Risk Committee
• Update policies annually
• Ensure consistency between internal control and operational risk management, including the implementation of remediation plans
• Contribute to regulatory reporting when required
• Lead the network of Risk correspondents in each Office and raise awareness about operational risks and permanent control
• Contribute to harmonising practices within the Group by developing and disseminating a common culture

✯ Profile

• Master’s degree in risk management and internal control or equivalent university qualification, with over 10 years of experience in similar roles within non-life insurance companies, consulting firms or supervisory authorities
• Excellent knowledge of Solvency 2 regulations.
• Professional fluency in English is mandatory.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and E-Front software, with ability to handle diverse tasks with agility.

Working mindset :

• Rigour and autonomy.
• Ability to work in a team.
• Adaptability in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to communicate, both written and spoken.

Hiring Process:

• Interview with Talent Acquisition.
• Interview with our VP Risk Compliance & Supervisory Relations
• Interview with our Head of Talent.

=> Welcome @Wakam 🙌

Positive energy, agility, and team spirit are essential to support Wakam in its hyper-growth!

You have the Wakam mindset? Join us!

More about us

Our culture? Free to impact. A culture where everything is possible, where all ideas are taken into consideration, where everyone has an impact on the transformation of insurance! Hungry for freedom? Thirsty for autonomy? If you are adventurous and like challenges, then the Wakam adventure might be made for you!

Discover on our website who we really are with the 11 cultural markers that so well describe us!

Mindset compatibility with our ‘Free to Impact’ culture:

1. Think big
2. Biased for action
3. Curious and eager to learn
4. Can say no and find solutions
5. Aims for the moon (but please don’t stick on the moon)
6. And above all: have fun working together 🤜🤛 !

• Wakam is not based on a hierarchy but on a methodology where everyone finds their role and knows their objectives.
• With a flat hierarchical system and a highly collaborative operating model, Wakam is an extremely agile and transparent company.
• Every last Friday of the month, it's Free.day @Wakam, a day without meetings to take a step aside and dedicate ourselves to skills sponsorship or other activities (because we are curious, I remind you).
• Full-remote is a reality at Wakam (there is even one Wakamee who works from his sailing boat ⛵) with our Wakam From Anywhere (WFA) program.
• Last but not least : we are nice and we have fun! (you'll find out by yourself 😉)

At Wakam, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is celebrated. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please feel free to reach out to your recruiter.