Operational Risk Advisor for UAE & MEA Resilience

Cigna; Dubai; On-site; AED 320,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

Cigna in Dubai seeks an experienced Senior Operational Risk Manager to lead design, embedding and governance of the MEA ORM framework, aligned with enterprise standards and local regulatory requirements.

You will coordinate UAE roadmap for CBUAE requirements, maintain risk registers, drive 3 Lines of Defence, and produce dashboards and regulatory reporting. Requires 7+ years across insurance/financial services with strong stakeholder engagement.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years in operational risk, enterprise risk, or related fields in financial services.
• Experience delivering risk frameworks across multi-jurisdictional environments.
• Knowledge of outsourcing risk, ICT and cyber dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Design and embed a MEA ORM aligned with enterprise standards and local regulatory needs.
• Coordinate UAE implementation roadmap for CBUAE requirements including milestones and remediation actions.
• Maintain UAE risk obligations register and evidence matrix with cross-MEA mapping.
• Develop governance reporting lines, duties, and 3 Lines of Defence across MEA.
• Oversee risk registers, risk controls, owners, actions and dates; ensure evidence-based.
• Prepare dashboards and regulatory reporting on risk profile changes and resilience.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Regulatory knowledge

Risk management

Governance reporting

Education

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

Professional certification CRISC, CISA, CISM, CBCP, IRM, FRM, PMP or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft 365

SharePoint

Power BI

Jira

Visio

Job description

Cigna in Dubai seeks an experienced Senior Operational Risk Manager to lead design, embedding and governance of the MEA ORM framework, aligned with enterprise standards and local regulatory requirements.

You will coordinate UAE roadmap for CBUAE requirements, maintain risk registers, drive 3 Lines of Defence, and produce dashboards and regulatory reporting. Requires 7+ years across insurance/financial services with strong stakeholder engagement.