Director, Insurance Credit Risk

Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco; New York (NY); On-site; USD 158,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work six weeks a year

Medical/dental/vision/mental health

401(k) with company match

Paid leave and holidays

Backup care for family

Wellness stipends and transit benefits

Job summary

Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco is seeking a Director, Insurance Credit Risk to underwrite and monitor insurance company members. You will analyze financial statements, regulatory filings, and capital measures to form clear credit recommendations and support governance decisions.

The role emphasizes independent judgement, detailed credit memoranda, and collaboration with senior leaders to manage a diverse insurance portfolio and ensure sound risk management.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in credit analysis and underwriting of insurance companies.
• Strong knowledge of GAAP, statutory accounting, and insurance regulation.
• Ability to translate complex financial information into clear credit conclusions and actionable recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Underwrite insurance company credit risk and assign internal ratings.
• Analyze statutory and GAAP financial statements, regulatory filings, capital adequacy, reserves, liquidity, and reinsurance.
• Evaluate investment portfolios, asset quality, liquidity, and market exposure.
• Prepare credit memoranda with rationale and recommended structures.
• Present conclusions to senior management and credit approval committees.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Financial writing

Independent judgement

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, business administration, or related field

Tools

Excel

Credit risk platforms

Job description

At the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, sound credit decisions support our ability to provide reliable liquidity to member financial institutions and help meet the affordable housing and economic development needs of our communities. We’re seeking an experienced insurance credit professional who brings independent judgment, deep analytical expertise, and the ability to turn complex financial information into clear recommendations. As Director, Insurance Credit Risk, you’ll underwrite, assign internal credit ratings to, and monitor an assigned portfolio of life, health, and property and casualty insurance company members. This is a senior individual contributor position with no people-management responsibilities. You’ll serve as a subject matter expert, advise internal partners, and present recommendations to senior leaders and credit approval committees.

What you’ll do

Evaluate insurance company creditworthiness. Analyze statutory and U.S. GAAP financial statements, regulatory filings, capital adequacy, reserves, liquidity, reinsurance arrangements, and business performance. Assess investment portfolio risk. Evaluate asset quality, composition, concentrations, duration, liquidity, and exposure to changing market conditions. Develop clear credit recommendations. Prepare credit memoranda that explain financial condition, key risks, mitigating factors, internal rating rationale, and recommended credit structure. Monitor your assigned portfolio. Identify material changes in financial condition, regulatory status, market exposure, collateral risk, borrowing capacity, and overall credit quality. Translate industry developments into risk insights. Track insurance regulation, accounting standards, interest rates, asset valuations, credit spreads, and reinsurance markets. Produce sector reviews and exposure analyses to inform portfolio surveillance and risk appetite discussions. Support credit governance. Present conclusions to senior management and approval committees, maintain complete analytical documentation, and escalat material deterioration, covenant concerns, policy exceptions, and matters beyond delegated authority. Serve as a trusted technical resource. Advise internal partners on insurance credit risk, underwriting methodologies, statutory accounting, reinsurance, and capital adequacy. Share expertise and provide technical guidance or analytical review when requested.

What you’ll bring

A bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in credit analysis, underwriting, financial analysis, insurance company analysis, financial institution risk management, regulation, or credit ratings. Substantial direct experience assessing insurance company creditworthiness, including statutory and GAAP financial statements, regulatory filings, capital measures, investment portfolios, reserves, liquidity, and reinsurance. Strong knowledge of insurance regulation, statutory accounting, GAAP reporting, and credit rating methodologies. Experience preparing and presenting complex credit recommendations to senior approval authorities, governance committees, or equivalent decision-makers. Strong analytical and financial writing skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear credit conclusions and actionable recommendations. Sound independent judgement and the ability to critically evaluate assumptions and evidence. Proficiency with market data, credit risk platforms, and advanced Excel, along with the ability to manage multiple complex reviews independently.

Why The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco

Here, your expertise connects to a broader purpose. You’ll collaborate with skilled colleagues in an organization that values individual contributions and supports employees’ professional growth and work and life goals.

Our benefits support employees and their families, including:

• Work from anywhere in the U.S. for six weeks annually: Four personal weeks and two Bank designated weeks.
• Medical, dental, vision, and mental health support.
• A 401(k) with company match, life insurance, and disability coverage.
• Vacation, sick leave, holidays, wellness, and volunteer days.
• Backup care for children, elders, and pets, plus medical, parental and family leave.
• Annual wellness and technology stipends, a transit subsidy, and pretax transit and parking benefits.

Annual base salary: $157,500–$183,500

The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco is committed to the principles of equal opportunity in employment (e.g., employees, applicants) and in contracting (e.g., suppliers, vendors) regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a parent, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to cultivating a workplace free of unlawful discrimination, harassment, and retaliation, and are dedicated to fostering vibrant communities by serving as a reliable source of liquidity and resources for affordable housing and economic development.

Salary ranges reflect the base salary that the Bank reasonably expects to pay for a given role and is not inclusive of annual incentive award opportunities, retirement benefits or the value of other health and welfare or other ancillary benefits. We consider many factors when determining base salaries such as individual background and experience, the competitive environment, education, particular skill set(s), and industry and institutional knowledge.

The Bank is committed to offering all team members challenging and engaging work with market competitive pay, retirement, and benefit offerings. In support of this commitment, the Bank routinely engages in market competitive benchmarking surveys and analysis to ensure our team members continue to be paid fairly and competitively.

The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco is a cooperative, wholesale bank that helps meet community credit needs by providing readily available, competitively priced credit products and services to member financial institutions through all phases of the economic cycle. Our members include commercial banks, credit unions, industrial loan companies, savings institutions, insurance companies, and community development financial institutions headquartered in Arizona, California, and Nevada.