ARAG SE is the largest specialized Legal Protection insurers active internationally.
Our company goal is to make legal aid available for everyone. We seek people who are willing to contribute in reaching this goal and this is for you a wonderful opportunity to join a family owned global company with a very nice work atmosphere. The Belgian branch, located in the center of Brussels, is actually looking for a thorough Performance Manager (m/f/x) to monitor and analyze the technical and financial performance from an underwriting point of view and from a business controlling point of view.

The Performance Manager is responsible for the following tasks:

On the one hand:

• Prepare annual budgets and forecasts and analyse the various outlooks.
• Understand, monitor and analyse all costs within the company, through dialog with the budget owners.
• Analyse reports that the accounting system generates and other data to identify trends, issues, risks and opportunities for improvement.

On the other hand:

• Supervise the underwriting officer in protecting the company’s book of business from bad risks
• Provide technical support in negotiating the defined, quotes, guidelines, terms and conditions with national brokers & accounts. A close interaction with the Sales Department is needed to develop the business in a profitable way.
• Regularly monitor business performance at various levels (product, broker, contract). Identify areas of improvements and concerns in business operational areas and provide appropriate strategies to resolve them.
• Support managers and staff on financial issues, such as budgeting, cost control and financial planning.

This role requires in depth analytical skills and tool expertise (data statistics & data reconciliation & background information) and strong time management skills. The responsibilities implies two types of attitude: A reactive one for the Underwriting part and a pro-active one for the Technical Performance part. The Performance Manager reports to the Finance Manager.