Senior Risk Manager

SiriusPoint; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Senior Risk Manager to join their dynamic team in London. This role is pivotal in developing and executing a robust risk management framework, ensuring a culture of risk awareness across the organization. Ideal candidates will have over 8 years of experience in risk, audit, or consulting within the insurance or financial services sectors. The position offers an exciting opportunity to work collaboratively with stakeholders, influence strategic projects, and contribute to a culture of performance and accountability. Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to providing intelligent risk solutions and fostering diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in risk management or similar roles.
• Strong understanding of risk and control design.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of risk management frameworks.
• Monitor implementation of action plans to remediate issues.

Skills

Risk Management

Audit

Operations

Consulting

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Analytical Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Professional Qualifications (CII, IRM)

Tools

MS Office Suite

Job description

Who We Are

SiriusPoint is a global underwriter of insurance and reinsurance. We utilize deep risk capabilities to protect our customers and provide intelligent risk solutions to clients and brokers around the world. Bermuda-headquartered and listed on the New York Stock Exchange (SPNT), we work as ‘One SiriusPoint’ to apply expertise and underwrite risks across our four operational areas - International Insurance, North American Insurance, Global Accident and Health, and Global Reinsurance.

We underwrite from Bermuda, Liege, London, New York, Stockholm, Toronto, and Zurich, and have licenses to write Property & Casualty and Accident & Health insurance and reinsurance globally.

Objective

As a key member of the risk management function, you will support establishing and maintaining an effective risk and control management framework and foster a culture of risk awareness. You will help lead the development, rollout, and execution of a risk management framework, focusing on partnering with the business to assess risk and establish and review processes and controls.

Join Our Team

You will operate as Senior Risk Manager for the Group Risk Team, based at our New York City office. To thrive in this position, you should be solution and delivery focused, intellectually curious, energetic, and possess strong influencing skills, with 8+ years’ experience in risk, audit, operations, or consulting within Insurance or Financial Services. You will report to the global Head of Enterprise Risk Management.

Your responsibilities will include:

1. Providing leadership and guidance for the business and risk colleagues to implement the evolving risk and control framework.
2. Demonstrating a strong understanding of key processes within an insurance company.
3. Working with the business to enable the development, assessment, and reporting on risks, risk mitigation activities, processes, and controls to support a strong risk culture.
4. Responsible for the day-to-day implementation of the Process and Controls Transformation project and leading/supporting risk assessments of other significant business change projects.
5. Leading Risk and Control Self-Assessments for assigned areas and encouraging timely reporting of risk incidents by the first line of defense.
6. Monitoring the implementation of action plans to remediate documented issues.
7. Assisting Group and Legal Entity Risk colleagues in preparing reports for Executive Risk Committee, Board Risk Committee(s), and Boards of Directors, including drafting papers and regulatory responses.
8. Contributing to the continuous development and embedding of the company’s risk management framework.
9. Providing advice, support, training, and challenge to the first line on risk management matters.

United behind common goals

At SiriusPoint, we work as one team across our global business, united behind common goals to make a positive impact. We aim to attract and retain talented individuals who can achieve a rewarding career at SiriusPoint.

Our Purpose is to provide security and resilience in an uncertain world.

Our Vision is to be recognized as a best-in-class insurer and reinsurer, utilizing deep risk capabilities to protect our customers by blending talent, expertise, and data to provide intelligent risk solutions.

Our Culture emphasizes performance and accountability. Our people are our experts, empowered to apply their expertise in a supportive, collaborative, and purposeful environment.

Our Values guide our actions and decisions:

• Integrity: Respect and trust are our core principles
• Customer Focused: Our customers are the reason we exist
• Solution Driven: Creating solutions is our mindset
• Diversity: Inclusion and allyship make us stronger
• Collaboration: Collaboration drives outperformance

Your skills and abilities should include:

• Bachelor's degree with a desire to pursue professional qualifications such as Chartered Insurance Institute or Institute of Risk Management.
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in risk management or similar roles.
• Experience in risk and control design.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Strong communication, interpersonal skills, and ability to network across stakeholders.
• Ability to support major strategic projects aligned with organizational goals.
• Strong problem-solving, investigative, and analytical skills.
• Experience implementing legal and regulatory requirements in financial or insurance sectors.
• Results-oriented, organized, resilient, and detail-oriented, working collaboratively and in an agile manner.
• Experience fostering high-performance teams.
• Understanding operational metrics, KRIs, MI, and reporting.
• Persistence and contingency planning skills.
• Experience working internationally with diverse cultures and locations.
• Proficiency in MS Office suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.

We Achieve More Together

At SiriusPoint, we value diversity, inclusion, and allyship, believing they strengthen us. We are committed to supporting diverse voices, backgrounds, and contributions, and developing our DE&I strategy to ensure an inclusive, supportive, and empowering workplace.