HR and Payroll Operations, Descartes Underwriting
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Parametric insurance against climate risk
Posted today
Parametric insurance against climate risk
101-200 employees
Posted today
More information about location
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
- You are recognized for :
- Your rigor
- Your personal organization skills
- Your strong interest in labor law and payroll issues
- Your ability to work in a true international context, with different cultures, but also different regulations and law
- You have experience in an HR department, with ideally a focus in HR Operations (“administration du personnel”) and/or Payroll
- You are at ease, either in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where agility was critical
- You are fluent in French and English (oral and written)
- You recognize yourself in values like: excellence, diversity, humility and eagerness to learn
What the job involves
- As a HR & Payroll Operations Apprentice, you will be part of our dynamic and collaborative People team — a team in motion, focused on building and delivering impactful projects
- Currently made up of a dozen dedicated professionals, they are committed to driving the company's success, passionate about fostering diversity, and constantly eager to learn and grow
- You will report to the HR & Payroll Ops Lead
- Support Onboarding Ops: produce work contracts for newjoiners, watch trial period end dates so that HRBPs can have the right conversations with managers
- Support absences Ops for employees (sick leave, time off …)
- Assist with the administrative management of offboardings
- Keep our HR database and staff register up to date
- Contribute to monthly payroll management, working with payroll providers in France and abroad
- Contribute to ensuring that social taxes are properly calculated, controlled and paid, in relation with Finance
- Contribute to track employees’ benefit allowances (e.g. transportation, meal plan)
- Contribute to continuously improving our HR processes by simplifying when possible, automating where feasible and ensuring reliability in everything we do thanks to no-code tools (Make), Excel automations, or simply common sense
- Support the implementation of effective communication strategies related to payroll and HR operations, including process documentation or responding to employees’ frequently asked questions (e.g. on timeoff, sick leave, payroll …)
Application process
- Step 1: HR Interview with our Talent Recruiter
- Step 2: In person or remote manager & technical interview
- Step 3: In person team interview to meet our team and discover our offices
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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