AVP, Automated Controls

AVP, Automated Controls – Fortitude Reinsurance Company Ltd.

Fortitude Reinsurance Company Ltd. (Fortitude Re) is a leading provider of legacy reinsurance solutions, serving major insurance companies with transformational solutions across Life & Annuity and P&C lines. Fortitude Re holds a general account of approximately $111 billion and is supported by institutional investors led by The Carlyle Group and T&D Insurance Group.

• Lead automated controls design and delivery
• Own the design and implementation of automated controls embedded directly into investment, underwriting, settlements, finance, and data workflows.
• Own control execution and operation through the development life cycle, ensuring clear accountability and transition of ownership upon production.
• Translate financial, operational, IT, cyber, data governance and AI risk requirements into embedded controls across investment, underwriting, settlements, finance, and data workflows.
• Identify risks associated with business processes and recommend, design, and document controls to address those risks.
• Simplify and standardize control processes so that controls are built‑in rather than added on.
• Embed controls into the data & analytics platform
• Work with data, technology, and architecture teams to build controls into data pipelines (data quality checks, reconciliations, lineage, access control, etc.).
• Establish and implement continuous monitoring, dashboards, and alerts for key controls and risk indicators.
• Ensure data controls evolve with changes to data architecture, pipeline, and downstream consumption.
• Internal financial and IT general controls
• Design, build and maintain automated internal financial controls over settlements, reserving, and financial reporting, ensuring reliable execution and auditable evidence.
• Work with IT to review/confirm appropriate ITGCs (access, change management, operations) for key applications and the new platform, supporting ICFR where applicable.
• Establish a process and accountability for maintaining control documentation, evidence, and issue tracking as part of data‑to‑day operations.
• Enhance operational risk and cybersecurity controls
• Work with IT to review/confirm embedded automated controls have been established to manage operational and technology risks including process failures, data loss, unauthorized access, and system misuse.
• Establish clear accountability and execution of controls.
• Partner with Information Security to ensure robust IAM, logging, monitoring, and incident detection within critical processes.
• Build AI / model governance controls
• Support governance of AI/machine learning and analytics models, including controls over data sourcing, versioning, approvals, performance monitoring, and model changes.
• Assist in integrating controls into the AI and model governance framework aligned with risk and regulatory expectations and clear accountability.
• Drive transformation and change adoption
• Serve as a control lead on transformation initiatives, ensuring controls are considered from design through implementation.
• Establish and maintain operating model for automated controls, including ownership, lifecycle management, evidence, exceptions and remediation.
• Drive adoption of automation‑first, controls‑by‑design practices through hands‑on engagement, workshops and training with business and technology teams.
• Monitor, remediate and continuously improve control operations
• Establish continuous control monitoring and follow up on issues and remediation to manage risk and control performance in real time.
• Investigate control exceptions, coordinate remediation and ensure sustainable fixes are implemented.
• Develop metrics and dashboards to assess control coverage, reliability, and efficiency, and continuously identify opportunities to further automate, rationalize and simplify controls.
• Provide transparent control evidence and performance reporting to business, Risk, Compliance and Internal Audit as downstream stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, Risk Management, or a related field.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in risk, controls,…