Senior Risk Manager

Job Details

Job Title: Senior Risk Manager

Division: Risk and Compliance

Reports To: As per Beazley’s organisation chart

Key Relationships: Internally:
Risk Management, Internal Audit, Compliance, Risk Owners, Control Reporters, Underwriters, Claims and managers of support functions. Externally:
Regulators.

The role will deliver a broad range of risk management activities on behalf of Beazley’s US and Bermuda entities, with a particular focus on operational risks. This will involve producing risk reports and analysis (including Beazley’s US and Bermuda ORSAs), providing review and challenge of first‑line processes, performing deep‑dive reviews on specific risk areas, as well as supporting the risk team with delivering on the wider risk management framework.

The role is most likely to suit an ERM professional, who has significant experience in risk management, preferably within specialty insurance.

• Provide challenge of the first‑line processes for Beazley’s US and Bermuda entities around operational risk, including regulatory, underwriting, claims, finance, procurement, and IT risks as well as operational components of other risk groups including insurance risk.
• Produce risk reporting and opinions, including deep‑dive reviews on key risks, hot topics and any risk incidents influencing Beazley’s risk profile, to support reporting to internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the delivery of the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment for Beazley’s US and Bermuda entities, particularly those sections relating to insurance and financial risk.
• Support with the development of the wider risk management framework.
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships with members of the first line, to help support Beazley’s risk management framework.
• Collaborate closely with the Global risk team.

• University degree
• Professional qualification (advantageous)

• Methodical approach to problem solving, with a high attention to detail.
• Ability to act pragmatically in the face of new challenges and exercise sound judgments based on overall business needs.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication skills, and ability to tailor communication to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Ability to prepare comprehensive well‑written reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Proven project management and organisational skills with a track record of delivering projects to strict deadlines.
• Results oriented, with the energy and determination to succeed in a fast‑paced environment.
• Advanced proficiency in using Microsoft Office.

• Experience working as an ERM professional with a focus on enterprise and operational risk within specialty insurance.
• Experience of providing challenge across any of the following areas would be an advantage:
  Operational risk within Finance, Insurance, IT, and wider Operations teams.
• Experience in providing risk challenge to the first line and producing and presenting risk analysis to internal and external stakeholders.
• Interest in gaining a deeper understanding of insurance and financial risk management in the Lloyd’s / London Market.

• Experience working as an ERM professional with a focus on operational risk within specialty insurance.
• Experience of providing challenge across any of the following areas would be an advantage:
  Operational risk within Finance, Insurance, IT, and wider Operations teams.
• Experience in providing risk challenge to the first line and producing and presenting risk analysis to internal and external stakeholders.
• Interest in gaining a deeper understanding of insurance and financial risk management in the Lloyd’s / London Market.

• Information seeking
• Problem solving
• Technical expert
• Time management
• Influencing others
• Quality focused
• Initiative
• Customer focused
• Analytical thinking
• Team working

We are an equal opportunities employer and as such, we will make reasonable adjustments to our selection process for candidates that indicate that, owing to disability, our arrangements might otherwise disadvantage them. If you have a disability, including dyslexia or other non‑visible ones, which you believe may affect your performance in selection, please advise us in good time and we’ll make reasonable adjustments to our processes for you.