MEA Operational Risk & Resilience Advisor

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company; Dubai; On-site; AED 450,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

Cigna Healthcare is seeking an Operational Risk Advisor to strengthen risk management and resilience across the Middle East and Africa, with UAE focus on regulatory embedding. You will translate obligations into governance, controls, and evidence, partnering with Operations, Tech, Cyber, Compliance, Legal, Finance and Procurement to ensure robust second-line oversight.

You will design and maintain a MEA risk framework, coordinate UAE roadmap, oversee risk registers, KRIs, and regulatory

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in risk management, finance, business, law, technology or related.
• Professional certification such as CRISC, CISA, CISM, CBCP, IRM, FRM, PMP or equivalent preferred.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in operational risk, resilience or related areas.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain and embed MEA operational risk management framework aligned with standards and local regs.
• Coordinate UAE implementation roadmap for CBUAE risk and resilience requirements with milestones.
• Maintain UAE risk obligations register and evidence matrix; map risks across MEA.
• Promote governance, reporting lines, and Three Lines of Defence accountability.
• Facilitate risk assessments, control reviews and independent second-line challenge.
• Oversee risk registers, controls, owners, actions and target dates with evidence.
• Develop KRIs, thresholds, incidents and escalation tracking; prepare dashboards and reports.
• Support business continuity, resilience testing and remediation prioritised for UAE.
• Provide second-line oversight of third-party risk and outsourcing across MEA.

Skills

Regulatory judgement

Risk governance

Stakeholder management

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in risk management, finance, business, law, technology or related

CRISC/CISA/CISM/CBCP/IRM/FRM/PMP or equivalent

Tools

SharePoint

Power BI

Jira

Visio

Job description

Cigna Healthcare is seeking an Operational Risk Advisor to strengthen risk management and resilience across the Middle East and Africa, with UAE focus on regulatory embedding. You will translate obligations into governance, controls, and evidence, partnering with Operations, Tech, Cyber, Compliance, Legal, Finance and Procurement to ensure robust second-line oversight.

You will design and maintain a MEA risk framework, coordinate UAE roadmap, oversee risk registers, KRIs, and regulatory