Senior APAC L&H Risk Leader

Swiss Reinsurance Company; Singapore; On-site; SGD 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Swiss Reinsurance Company in Singapore seeks a Vice President to identify, analyse and monitor Life & Health insurance risks across risk factors, partnering with stakeholders to balance risk with business objectives. Responsibilities rotate across the team to address evolving priorities.

You will lead risk reviews, collaborate with senior leadership, monitor risk limits, and identify emerging risks for forward-looking strategies. Travel to global meetings may be required.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of Life & Health reinsurance; experience working in multiple business functions and exposure to large and structured transactions are highly desirable.
• Strong communicator with critical thinking, great influencing and leadership skills who can demonstrate courage to speak up and constructively challenge ideas even in high-pressure situations, ensuring that diverse perspectives are heard and the best decisions are made.
• Good analytic and modelling capabilities and sound risk management and actuarial techniques; knowledge of stochastic modelling would be an asset.
• Knowledge and understanding of risks and controls within a reinsurance environment; knowledge or experience in risk modelling, capital management and financial market risk an advantage.
• Agile learner, open to new ways of thinking and new ideas; focused on continuous learning and bringing new information into your work.
• Great teammate, willingness to share knowledge and experience within and across team and other risk management functions.
• Ideally, a qualified actuary with at least 10 years of relevant life (re)insurance industry experience. Other quantitative backgrounds with suitable business experience will also be considered.

Responsibilities

• Provide risk advice on high-impact transactions and projects across diverse markets, to ensure that Swiss Re accepts the most appropriate business within the defined risk appetite.
• Directly collaborate with Business Partners and senior leadership to balance business strategy with appropriate risk management (including portfolio steering and business planning), by fostering strong relationships across different functions.
• Lead/conduct risk reviews and risk deep dives (including insurance and operational risks) to assess the quality of expert judgment of the business.
• Lead/support the review and monitoring of risk limits to ensure Swiss Re's exposures and aggregation of those risks are within tolerance.
• Support risk identification for new business models and technologies (including emerging risks) to facilitate forward looking strategies for future risk opportunities and/or risk mitigations.
• Promote good risk culture and improve risk awareness within the business.
• Travel required occasionally, as well as attendance to global meetings that span multiple time zones.

Job description

Swiss Reinsurance Company in Singapore seeks a Vice President to identify, analyse and monitor Life & Health insurance risks across risk factors, partnering with stakeholders to balance risk with business objectives. Responsibilities rotate across the team to address evolving priorities.

You will lead risk reviews, collaborate with senior leadership, monitor risk limits, and identify emerging risks for forward-looking strategies. Travel to global meetings may be required.