Job Description
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)