Enterprise Risk Director

Enterprise Risk Director – Specialty Insurance

London | Hybrid

We are looking for an experienced Enterprise Risk Director with a strong background in specialty insurance and the Lloyd’s market to join a growing risk advisory team.

This is a senior role for someone who understands the realities of operating within complex insurance businesses and can work with senior leaders to navigate some of their most important risk, resilience and change priorities.

You will work closely with a portfolio of specialty insurance clients, helping them understand and respond to enterprise and operational risks, strengthen their risk frameworks and governance, and deliver meaningful change across their organisations.

This is not a role focused purely on risk frameworks or producing reports. You will be expected to bring perspective, challenge constructively, lead complex initiatives and work alongside senior stakeholders to get things done.

The Role

You will lead a range of assignments across the specialty insurance market, with a particular focus on enterprise risk, operational risk and operational resilience.

Your work will vary depending on the needs of your clients and could include:

• Reviewing and enhancing enterprise risk management frameworks, risk appetite and governance arrangements.
• Supporting CROs, COOs and senior leadership teams with strategic and emerging risk priorities.
• Leading operational risk and control framework reviews, including RCSAs, risk identification and assessment, risk appetite and management information.
• Designing and delivering operational resilience programmes, including important business services, impact tolerances, scenario testing and resilience assessments.
• Supporting clients through significant regulatory, organisational or business change.
• Leading thematic risk reviews, control assessments, risk transformation and remediation programmes.
• Assessing the effectiveness of risk operating models, governance and three-lines arrangements.
• Supporting major transformation programmes where risk, governance, controls and resilience are critical to successful delivery.
• Providing independent challenge and practical recommendations to senior management and boards.
• Bringing together multiple stakeholders across underwriting, claims, operations, technology, finance, compliance and risk.
• Taking ownership of complex projects from initial problem definition through to delivery and implementation.

You will typically be working across multiple client assignments, so the ability to quickly understand a new organisation, build credibility and move between different priorities will be essential.

What We're Looking For

You will be an experienced risk professional with significant exposure to specialty insurance and/or the Lloyd’s market.

You will ideally have experience across both enterprise and operational risk, together with a strong understanding of how risk operates within complex insurance businesses.

We are particularly interested in people who can demonstrate:

• Significant experience working within specialty insurance, Lloyd’s, managing agents, brokers or related insurance organisations.
• Strong operational risk experience, including risk and control frameworks, thematic reviews, control environments and operational risk transformation.
• Practical experience of operational resilience and the regulatory expectations surrounding resilience within insurance.
• A track record of leading complex projects or programmes from definition through to delivery.
• The ability to manage multiple workstreams and competing priorities without losing sight of the outcome.
• Extensive experience engaging with and influencing senior stakeholders, including executives and risk leadership.
• The confidence to challenge constructively while maintaining strong, trusted relationships.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex risk issues into clear, commercially relevant messages.
• Strong judgement and the ability to operate comfortably where the answer is not always straightforward.

Previous consulting or advisory experience is highly desirable, particularly where this has involved working with multiple insurance clients and leading complex risk or transformation programmes.