Insurance Risk Manager

To provide support to the Head of ERM on the ensuring appropriate oversight and challenge of underwriting risk across Apollo Syndicate Management Limited (ASML) and its managed syndicates. This role will work closely with the Financial Risk Manager, Operational Risk Manager and the Specialist Risk Consultant to ensure there is a holistic view of risk. This role will ensure that there is a consistent, accurate and proportional evaluation of underwriting risk.

What you'll do:

• Act as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) to provide oversight and challenge on the insurance risks across ASML and its managed syndicates.


• Provide challenge to the appropriateness of the risk and control environments for Underwriting, Delegated Authority, Reinsurance and Claims.


• Assist the Underwriting function with benchmarking and adherence to the Lloyd's Principles of doing business.


• Provide challenge on the implementation and roll out of new underwriting control frameworks.


• Provide support from and insurance risk perspective to the capital team as part of the annual capital setting process.


• Support the Underwriting Governance Team on the enhancement of the current governance framework.


• Support the Underwriting function on new business initiatives and strategic projects by providing challenge and insight.


• Co-ordinate, monitor and report on the framework of Key Risk indicators.


• Assist the first line in investigating risk events that originate or impact the underwriting function.


• Provide training and guidance on the role of ERM.


• Facilitate the identification and reporting of underwriting emerging risks with impact analysis.


• Identify and perform thematic Underwriting risk reviews.


• Prepare regular and ad-hoc risk and control analysis, Risk MI reports and dashboards for Executive management, 1st line committees and Board-level Committees.
  
  Ability to network and maintain relationships within the company (in a hybrid working environment).


• Collaborative, inquisitive and clear communicator across all levels of the business.


• Strong risk management knowledge (risk registers, risk rating, etc).


• Experienced and knowledgeable on underwriting risk.


• Experience working in a Lloyd's Managing Agency.


• Technical underwriting and quantitative portfolio analysis experience and ability to manage cross class risk aggregation.


• Written skills to support the syndicate ORSA reports production.


• Lloyd's governance experience (Min Standards, Principles Oversight framework).


• Experience of working in a Group or multi-syndicate structure.
  
  Apollo is an independent specialist (re)insurer launched in 2009 to provide high quality products and services to clients, brokers, and capital partners at Lloyd's. The Apollo name recognised the success of one of its founding investors Neil Armstrong, who in 1969 was the first person to land on the moon. Along with Jim Hays, Neil saw the opportunity to build a differentiated service provider at Lloyd's.


Having started life in 2009 as Apollo Syndicate 1969, we have since developed a diverse offering of insurance solutions for our clients and partners, ranging from traditional and specialty lines to innovative sharing economy solutions, and managing agency services at Lloyd's. We are excited to continue growing our team of more than 230 colleagues who strive towards our collective purpose of enabling a resilient and sustainable world.

"We attract and retain the highest quality talent by developing a team atmosphere where opportunity exists for our employees and partners." David Ibeson, Group CEO, Apollo is a growing and diverse team of empowered and passionate experts who focus on bringing innovation, data driven decision making and collaboration to every relationship and every risk. To meet the needs of a demanding global insurance market, we need a diverse workforce that truly understands the international communities we serve.

That is why we're focused on developing diverse talent at every level; inclusion and diversity means more to us than just chasing a target and we are committed to supporting and celebrating difference. Our people are at the heart of our business which is why we value the diversity of thought and talent of every member of our team.

We offer a range of support and run a programme of events and training that recognise the challenges and opportunities relating to diversity.