Senior Risk Manager, Life & Health Asia Pacific

About the role

Swiss Re's Life & Health Risk Management team supports informed and transparent risk-taking by partnering with stakeholders and challenging risk decisions. As Senior Risk Manager (Vice President level) in the L&H Asia Pacific team, you identify, analyse and monitor L&H insurance risks across all risk factors, helping the business avoid destabilising risks and work with Business to spot and fix issues early. The role reports to the Head Transaction RM Asia & EMEA and carries out responsibilities delegated from the L&H Chief Risk Officer Reinsurance.

Key responsibilities

• Give risk advice on high-impact transactions and projects across markets so that Swiss Re accepts the right business within its risk appetite.
• Work with Business Partners and senior leadership to balance business strategy with risk management, including portfolio steering and business planning.
• Lead or conduct risk reviews and risk deep dives, including insurance and operational risks, to assess the quality of the business's expert judgment.
• Lead or support the review and monitoring of risk limits so exposures stay within tolerance.
• Support risk identification for new business models and technologies, including emerging risks.
• Promote good risk culture and raise risk awareness in the business.
• Occasional travel and attendance at global meetings spanning multiple time zones.

Required profile

• Ideally a qualified actuary with at least 10 years of relevant life (re)insurance experience; other quantitative backgrounds with suitable business experience will also be considered.
• Strong understanding of Life & Health reinsurance; experience in multiple business functions and large, structured transactions is highly desirable.
• Strong communicator with critical thinking, influencing and leadership skills, able to challenge ideas constructively under pressure.
• Agile learner, collaborative and willing to share knowledge across the team and risk functions.

Required skills

• Good analytic and modelling capabilities and sound risk management and actuarial techniques.
• Knowledge of risks and controls in a reinsurance environment.
• Advantageous: risk modelling, capital management and financial market risk; stochastic modelling is an asset.