Business Risk Consultant

FM•Cleveland, OH

7h•Onsite

About The Position

Established nearly two centuries ago, FM is a leading mutual insurance company whose capital, scientific research capability and engineering expertise are solely dedicated to property risk management and the resilience of its policyholder-owners. These owners, who share the belief that the majority of property loss is preventable, represent many of the world’s largest organizations, including one of every four Fortune 500 companies. They work with FM to better understand the hazards that can impact their business continuity to make cost-effective risk management decisions, combining property loss prevention with insurance protection. The core objective of Business Risk Consulting (BRC) is to enhance FM relationships with clients, improving client senior and executive management’s awareness of the resilience of key business drivers through a quantitative analysis, ultimately increasing client retention and gaining new business. To achieve this, BRC offers a range of risk consulting services to assist both FM clients and FM client service teams.

Requirements

A bachelor degree in Business, Accounting and/or Finance from a recognized university (CPA and/or MBA preferred).
4 to 8+ years experience in a consulting environment (risk consulting or other such professional services advisory preferred). Consulting experience to external clients preferred, but internal consulting candidates considered.
Bilingual fluency, Spanish proficiency highly preferred.
Strong ability to understand our clients’ business models and produce strategic, quantitative analysis. Financial modelling experience preferred.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills (strong presentation, MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint skills crucial).
Excellent interpersonal and consultancy skills, as well as a positive and innovative outlook.
Willingness to travel as part of this role (approximately 20-30%), travel expectations may vary and increase depending on business needs.

Nice To Haves

CPA and/or MBA preferred.
Financial modelling experience preferred.
Spanish proficiency highly preferred.

Responsibilities

Provide business risk consulting services to current and potential FM clients; this includes regularly meeting and presenting to senior client management to develop a sound understanding of the client’s business model, critical processes and profit drivers – with a view to analyzing and mitigating the risks faced by these aspects of client operations.
Provide general risk advisory, business impact analyses, ERM, business continuity management support, financial risk support services, insured values quantification and training to FM clients.
Conduct financial modelling and analysis to quantify the financial impact of disruption-related risks to client operations.
Elevate the clients’ awareness of their critical business risks and exposures and provide business-focused resilience strategies.
Solve our client’s property-related risk management issues. Create opportunities for client services teams to access our client's senior and executive management and reinforce our position as a strategic partner to our clients.
Provide internally focused insurable value reporting and exposure projects, and other financial support services to FM client service teams. Including, regular interaction with account managers, account engineers and FM operations and division management.
Delivery of training courses around such topics to further demonstrate the portfolio of value-adding services that FM can deliver. Such as, insurable values reporting, supply chain exposure analysis, business impact analysis, and business continuity and resilience planning.