Legal Associate

The Legal and Compliance Analyst will assist the General Counsel and legal team with various legal and regulatory requirements, providing support for the Canadian AXA XL insurance, reinsurance and intermediary entities. This includes working with colleagues across regional offices and globally, interacting directly with local staff including underwriters. The role is based in Toronto, reporting to the General Counsel.

What you’ll be doing

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Assisting in preparing regulatory and corporate filings and applications.
• Assisting in preparing Legal and Compliance reports.
• Maintaining template contractual documentation for use by the business.
• Maintaining executed contractual documentation.
• Assisting in the preparation of responses to and coordination of requests from various regulatory bodies.
• Assisting with board or management committee meetings, preparing board packs, minutes and filings as required.
• Assisting in ensuring an effective governance program is in place including maintaining a regulatory compliance management system.
• Assisting in formulating and implementing local compliance policies and procedures and overseeing compliance with local policies, group Code of Conduct.
• Assisting with regulatory requirements, maintenance of license conditions and performing research on a variety of legal and regulatory topics.
• Providing such support as is necessary to the local legal and compliance team, including a wide variety of administrative and supportive tasks.
  
  

You will report to the Head of Legal, Insurance and Reinsurance, Canada.

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree and some to moderate relevant experience preferably in insurance and reinsurance; or within the financial sector.
• Excellent understanding of Canadian regulatory environment and requirements.
• Experience in compliance areas.
• Highly driven self-starter, with a robust desire to challenge and deliver.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, collaboration, presentation and influencing skills with the ability to communicate effectively with all internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent attention to details and a meticulous eye for identifying inconsistencies and inaccuracies.
• Competent user of Microsoft software, in particular Word, PowerPoint, Excel.
• Ability to take ownership of work, whilst working effectively within a team.
• Proven organizational and problem-solving skills, prioritization and time management skills with accurate results.
• High dedication to the business clients and legal and compliance team evidencing professionalism even in high pressure situations.
  
  

Who we are

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

Learn more at axaxl.com

What we offer

Inclusion

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter
  
  

Learn more at Inclusion & Diversity at AXA XL | AXA XL. AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Total Rewards

AXA XL’s Reward program is designed to take care of what matters most to you, covering the full picture of your health, wellbeing, lifestyle and financial security. It provides competitive compensation and personalized, inclusive benefits that evolve as you do.

We’re committed to rewarding your contribution for the long term, so you can be your best self today and look forward to the future with confidence.

Sustainability

At AXA XL, Sustainability is integral to our business strategy. In an ever-changing world, AXA XL protects what matters most for our clients and communities. We know that sustainability is at the root of a more resilient future. Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called “Roots of resilience”, focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations.

Our Pillars

• Valuing nature: How we impact nature affects how nature impacts us. Resilient ecosystems - the foundation of a sustainable planet and society - are essential to our future. We’re committed to protecting and restoring nature - from mangrove forests to the bees in our backyard - by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans.
• Addressing climate change: The effects of a changing climate are far-reaching and significant. Unpredictable weather, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels cause both social inequalities and environmental disruption. We're building a net zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions.
• Integrating ESG: All companies have a role to play in building a more resilient future. Incorporating ESG considerations into our internal processes and practices builds resilience from the roots of our business. We’re training our colleagues, engaging our external partners, and evolving our sustainability governance and reporting.
• AXA Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as AXA XL’s “Hearts in Action” programs. These include our Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and our annual volunteering day - the Global Day of Giving.
  
  

For more information, please see Sustainability at AXA XL.