Investor Relations Officer AGEAS

Our Organisation

Ageas is an international insurance company with a heritage spanning more than 180 years. Ranked among the top 20 insurance companies in Europe, Ageas has chosen to concentrate its business activities in Europe and Asia, which together make up the largest share of the global insurance market. These are grouped around four segments: Belgium, United Kingdom, Continental Europe and Asia and served through a combination of wholly owned subsidiaries and partnerships with strong financial institutions and key distributors around the world. Ageas operates successful partnerships in Belgium, UK, Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, China, Malaysia, India and Thailand and has subsidiaries in France, Hong Kong and UK. It is the market leader in Belgium for individual life and employee benefits, as well as a leading non-life player, through AG Insurance, and in the UK, it has a strong presence as the third largest player in private car insurance and the over 50’s market. It employs more than 13,000 people and has annual inflows of more than EUR 17 billion.

For the Ageas Investor Relations department, based in Brussels, we are in search of an Investor Relations Officer.

Your function

Investor Relations (IR) is a strategic management responsibility that integrates finance, communication and marketing and enables effective two-way communication between a company, the financial community, and other interested parties, which should ultimately contribute to a company's share price achieving fair valuation.

Your function is considered as the entry point of the Investor Relations Department and should trough the variety of tasks and projects enable you to acquire a number of professional as well as an in-depth knowledge on the company itself.

Your function within within the Investor Relations:

• You basically ensure a smooth relationship with our shareholders both institutional as well as retail
• You provide them rapidly, proactively and accurately with all information needed in order to help them to better understand the dynamics of our company
• You gain an in-depth knowledge of Ageas and its financials (P&L and balance sheet) and follow the latest developments of Ageas’ competitors and the financial markets as a whole
• You are actively involved in the preparation of the quarterly earnings publications such as the earnings press-releases, quarterly and (corporate) presentations and the annual report
• You organize and potentially (co-)host roadshows, conferences and investor days oriented to institutional and retail investors in various countries/cities worldwide
• You work with specific software tools from Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg
• You inform and provide feedback to senior management on important topics (as IR is often the first window to the market)

Your profile

• You have an economic or finance related bachelor or master degree
• You are passionate about financial markets and you are interested to learn about Ageas and the insurance sector
• You are able to work discretely and with confidential (price) sensitive information
• You like to work in a dynamic team
• You are keen to learn and to work with financial data
• You are flexible and are able to manage short term urgencies
• You easily manage relationships and you have excellent verbal and written communications skills
• You have a sense for independent work and you are well organized and entrepreneurial
• You have an excellent knowledge of Word, PowerPoint and Excel and you are knowledgeable about new communication media tool
• You are open to work with programs as Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters
• You have a very good knowledge of English and a knowledge of Dutch and French

We offer

Ageas values your talent and knows how to reward it. We offer you an attractive salary and fringe benefits. You will work in a stimulating international environment, with numerous opportunities for personal development. You will work independently within a dynamic team.

Interested?

Please apply on line or contact Patrick Vandewalle (HR): +32 (0)2 664 84 77