Junior Internal Auditor, Descartes Underwriting
Apprenticeship
Parametric insurance against climate risk
Posted today
Parametric insurance against climate risk
101-200 employees
Posted today
101-200 employees
Company mission
To create a new generation of parametric solutions: fully transparent, customised to the client’s needs and providing swift claims payment.
Role
Who you are
- Current or starting a master degree from a University or Business school
- An internship experience in internal or external audit would be a plus
- Rigorous, analytical and synthesis skills
- Curiosity, force of proposal
- Strong listening skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Professional English
- Eager to learn more about the insurance industry
- Adaptable and agile, you demonstrate excellent priority management skills
- Autonomous and curious, you are able to work in a dynamic and multicultural environment
- Excellent team player, interpersonal and communication skills enable you to be a force for proposal and interact with internal and external stakeholders
What the job involves
- As part of our strong growth, we are looking for an apprentice from September 2025 for 12 months to reinforce the Internal Audit team
- Reporting to the Internal Audit Director, you will work in close collaboration with all departments of the company, as part of the execution of missions on different scopes
- Participation in the various phases of an internal audit assignment, the perimeter of Internal Audit activities covers all the departments of the company (including the subsidiaries)
- Participation to the different meetings with the other control functions (Risk Management, Compliance, Internal Control) and represent Internal Audit when required
- Helping regularly updating the company's audit risk assessment
- Participation to the preparation of the company’s audit committee
- Participation to the preparation of Internal Audit reportings to the senior Management and the Board
- Support the Chief Internal Auditor in the performance of cross-functional assignments
Our take
The corporate insurance market is undergoing a momentous shift driven by a changing climate, the growing impact of natural catastrophes, and a rise in emerging risks. Climate change has become a real risk to businesses - one Nature report, for example, found that the US alone could lose over $500 billion across 22 sectors if rising global temperature predictions materialise. The need for effective corporate insurance has never been higher.
Descartes Underwriting is looking to revolutionise how we approach insurance. Taking on one of the insurance industry’s traditional methods - catastrophe (CAT) risk modelling - Descartes is leveraging new data sources and fusing them with a host of AI algorithms. This provides what it describes as a “product offering which covers the full spectrum of natural catastrophes and emerging risk exposures.” Its AI-driven parametric insurance model is highly disruptive, and has proven highly successful - just a few years after its founding, Descartes had already become the leading InsurTech player worldwide.
Following major funding, Descartes is looking to scale up its approach to corporate and public entity risk exposures, growing its technology platform, expanding into new lines of business and targeting larger deals. With an existing client base spanning hundreds of corporations including a host of Fortune 500 companies, Descartes looks set for big things in the coming years.
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Insights
56% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2022
$120m
SERIES B
Sep 2020
$18.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $140.8m
Company benefits
- Work in a rewarding and international environment
- Gain exposure to working with top management
- Continued learning and development (think annual seminars, training etc.)
- Frequent team events
- Work in a collaborative and professional environment
- Benefit from a hybrid way of working
Company HQ
Chaillot, Paris, France
Leadership
Tanguy Touffut
(CEO)Previously Global Head of Parametric Insurance at AXA Corporate Solutions, then CEO of AXA Global Parametrics.
Sebastien Piguet
(Chief Underwriting Officer)Previously Head of On-Demand Insurance Products at AXA Global Parametrics.
Kevin Dedieu
(Chief R&D Officer)Previously a Senior Consultant at MPG Partners. Also a visiting lecturer at École Polytechnique.
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