Senior Regulatory & Governance Risk Management Specialist

Role Overview

• Support the design, enhancement, and ongoing operation of the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework in line with best practice and regulatory expectations.
• Maintain and continuously improve group risk governance arrangements, including policies, standards, frameworks, and committee documentation.
• Support effective risk ownership and accountability across business units and legal entities.
• Act as a key point of contact for risk-related supervisory and regulatory requirements at Group level.
• Support regulatory engagement activities, including supervisory reviews, regulatory submissions, information requests, and supervisory college preparations.
• Monitor regulatory developments relevant to risk governance and ERM and assess their impact on the organisation’s framework and practices.
• Support the development, maintenance, and embedding of the Group Risk Appetite Framework, ensuring clear articulation, monitoring, and reporting.
• Contribute to periodic risk reporting to executive management, Board, and committees.
• Support the ongoing enhancement of non-financial risk frameworks, including operational risk, governance, and risk event management.
• Contribute to risk assessments and thematic risk reviews to identify trends, root causes, and areas for improvement.
• Promote consistent application of risk standards across business units and jurisdictions.
• Act as a trusted risk and governance advisor to senior management and functional leaders.
• Work collaboratively with Compliance, Legal, Finance, Internal Audit, and business teams to ensure an integrated approach to risk and regulatory governance.
• Provide effective constructive challenge whilst enabling business objectives to be achieved within risk appetite.

Requirements

• Significant experience in enterprise risk management, risk governance, or regulatory risk within insurance, reinsurance, or broader financial services.
• Strong understanding of regulatory expectations relating to ERM, risk governance, and non-financial risks.
• Proven experience developing, implementing, or enhancing risk frameworks, policies, and governance documentation.
• Experience supporting senior management, executive committees, and Board-level forums.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex information and communicate it clearly.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, including interaction with regulators or supervisors.
• Professional risk qualification (e.g. IRM, PRM, FRM) or comparable experience (desirable).
• Experience operating in a group or multi-jurisdictional regulatory environment (desirable).
• Maintaining a deep understanding of frameworks such as Solvency II, NAIC regulations, BMA requirements, and other regional equivalent standards (desirable).

Benefits

• health insurance coverage
• employee wellness program
• life and disability insurance
• 401k match
• retirement savings plan
• paid holidays
• paid time off (PTO)