Senior Risk Manager

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.

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

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

Your responsibilities will include:

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

Your skills and abilities should include:

• Bachelor's degree in higher education and a desire to pursue further professional qualifications of bodies such as the Chartered Insurance Institute or Institute of Risk Management.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in risk management or relevant similar roles.
• Previous risk and control design experience.
• Ability to proactively work independently, with minimal supervision.
• Ability to collaborate and business partner effectively with various stakeholders, committees, and boards, demonstrating strong communication and interpersonal skills and the ability to network across stakeholders to get things done.
• Capability to assist in major strategic business projects, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and goals.
• Strong problem solving, investigative, and analytical skills to identify, address, and resolve risk issues that may arise.
• Strong understanding and experience in implementing new legal and regulatory requirements within the financial or insurance sector, including those governing regulated financial services entities.
• Action and results orientated, an organiser with strong planning ability, high resilience and attention to detail who works in an agile and collaborative way.
• Experience in fostering a high-performance culture through effective teamwork and collaboration.
• Understanding of operational performance metrics, KRIs, management information (MI), and reporting.
• Persistence and the ability to overcome obstacles and/or plan for contingencies.
• Experience with and desire to work in an international setting with contacts in diverse locations and cultures.
• Capacity to handle diverse tasks and responsibilities, adapting to changing priorities and business needs.
• Experienced user of key MS Office products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
• Fluent spoken and written English.