Enterprise Risk Manager
Zürich - Switzerland
Job Summary
About MS Reinsurance
MS Reinsurance is a global reinsurer domiciled in Switzerland with underwriting offices in Zurich Bermuda Miami and New York. The Company underwrites non-life treaty reinsurance solutions on a worldwide basis through its three business units: Americas International and Specialty Lines. As part of the world-leading insurance group MS&AD MS Reinsurance combines reliability and agility to make its clients businesses stronger. With a drive to move quickly and a commitment to long term partnership MS Reinsurance supports its partners with the momentum and stability they can build on.
About the role
As a Enterprise Risk Manager you will play a pivotal role in shaping and strengthening the companys risk culture and governance. Acting as a trusted Risk Partner to Senior Management you will collaborate closely with executive leaders to provide transparency on material risks drive sound decision-making and ensure a robust control environment across MS Reinsurance.
Your responsibilities
- Act as the primary risk partner to assigned business areas leading the RCSA process endtoend challenging supporting and advising senior stakeholders.
- Promote strong risk ownership by delivering targeted training facilitating workshops and driving continuous improvement through actions controls and risk event management.
- Lead highquality risk reporting for assigned business areas for internal management the Supervisory Board and regulatory bodies ensuring clarity insight and alignment with strategic priorities.
- Conduct risk reviews bringing an independent perspective and constructive challenge.
- Support the risk governance framework including the development and maintenance of risk policies standards and committee deliverables.
- Shape the future of risk management by working together with the Head of ERM to build and embed an emerging risk framework integrating external insights and forming wellarticulated forwardlooking risk views.
- Support the development and maintenance of the Companys GRC system.
- Providing supporting materials for any required responses to regulatory approval bodies.
- Lead Risk Project activities if required.
Your profile
- Strong background in operational risk and controls within Risk or Internal Audit
- Good understanding of (re)insurance business processes
- 510 years experience in (re)insurance; underwriting experience is a plus
- University degree preferred; additional qualifications beneficial
- Experience in risk and regulatory reporting including ORSA
- Comfortable presenting to Boards and governance forums
- Strong analytical skills and pragmatic problemsolving approach
- Experience working in an international environment
- Excellent communication skills; fluent English required German a plus
- Confident in challenging the first line of defence
- Strong ability to build relationships with senior stakeholders
- Skilled in influencing and negotiation
- Independent wellorganised and commercially minded
- Collaborative team player who challenges constructively
Why Work With Us
Make your mark with us. At MS Reinsurance were big enough to make a difference and small enough that everyone counts.
We offer an entrepreneurial culture where theres less hierarchy and more action and room for innovation. Here youll have the power to drive real change and shape our path ahead.
Join a place where ambition can become reality with development and platforms that support where you want to go next. Together well help you discover your potential as we expand ours.
We live day-to-day by our values: collaborative progressive empowering and responsible. This means youll join a team which upholds mutual trust and treats each other with respect. While teamwork is at the heart of our approach to reinsurance we dont expect our team to think alike; at MS Re we dont just welcome your differences we believe theyre essential to our success.
Does this sound like a culture you want to be part of Find out more about what we offer on our website and apply today!
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Note that we will only consider applicants eligible to work in Switzerland.
MS Reinsurance is the market-facing brand of the risk carrying legal entity MS Amlin AG a global reinsurer domiciled in Switzerland and operating in Bermuda as MS Amlin AG Bermuda Branch in the United States through MS Amlin Reinsurance Managers Inc and in Labuan Malaysia as MS Amlin AG Labuan Branch.
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