Senior Manager - Financial and Credit Risk

Discipline: Audit, Risk & Compliance
Job type: Permanent
Contact name: Aston
Contact email: aston@weareedenbrook.com
Job ref: J5675
Published: 17 days ago
Edenbrook are partnering with a leading specialty insurer on a newly created Senior Manager - Financial and Credit Risk hire. Risk Oversight • Monitor liquidity, funding, capital, and treasury risks • Review asset-liability assumptions, depreciation, concentration, correlation, and liquidity exposures • Oversee reinsurance counterparty risk in line with regulatory requirements • Lead enterprise-wide financial risk assessments across business units Investment & Treasury • Provide balance sheet risk insights, including hedging and transfer pricing • Oversee valuation, concentration, hedging strategies, and alternative assets (including ILS) • Monitor capital inflows and market risk exposures Stress Testing & Reporting • Lead stress testing and scenario analysis across liquidity and credit risk • Prepare risk opinions for internal committees, regulators, Board, and Lloyd’s • Enhance financial risk MI, dashboards, and Board reporting Governance & Crisis Preparedness • Strengthen governance, model documentation, and regulatory compliance • Support recovery and resolution planning • Lead financial crisis response readiness and critical vendor dependency assessments Stakeholder & Team Leadership • Partner with Treasury, Finance, Investments, Underwriting, and Reinsurance • Promote risk awareness through training and deep dives • Provide strategic guidance to senior leadership on capital and risk appetite • Build and develop a high-performing financial risk team Skills & Experience • Extensive financial risk experience in insurance, banking, or reinsurance • Strong expertise in liquidity, credit, funding, and investment risk • Experience with ALCO, ICAAP, and stress testing frameworks • Advanced qualification (CFA, FIA, Actuarial or equivalent) • Strong senior stakeholder engagement and presentation skills • Experience with Lloyd’s syndicates, ILS, or financial reinsurance structures • Familiarity with IRR and PRA expectations • Knowledge of Solvency II model governance (including internal models)