Are you a seasoned risk professional with a background in financial services who has the confidence and gravitas to impact our business? Commercial Express is on a trajectory of phenomenal growth, with ambitious plans for the future and is looking for an experienced Risk Manager to join our thriving MGA Business!
The Role:
1. As Risk Manager, you will help safeguard the business and keep material risks under control.
2. Responsible for building the ERM Framework, establishing and quantifying the business ‘risk appetite’.
3. Assess the risk exposure through gap analysis.
4. Analyse identified risks as a basis for required remediation.
5. Report risk and associated metrics appropriately to stakeholders at all levels.
6. Ensuring appropriate corporate governance to safeguard the business.
7. Review risk documentation regularly to ensure they are compliant with internal and external requirements.
8. Early identification of emerging risk through horizon scanning.
9. Key contact point and liaison for all internal and external auditors.
10. Provide support, education and training to staff to build risk awareness within the business.
Skills:
1. Must hold a professional qualification: Institute of Risk Management. Qualified Accountant or Risk Professional. Governance-related degree.
2. Financial Services experience is essential. Preferably worked in an insurance setting.
3. Commercially aware with the ability to understand broad business issues.
4. Leadership qualities with the ability to be a collaborator and team player.
5. Negotiation skills and the ability to influence key stakeholders.
6. Problem-solving and decision-making with a proactive and preventive approach.
7. Analytical skills with a good eye for detail.
8. Technical acumen with the ability to react quickly and think on your feet.
9. Resilient and the ability to cope under pressure.
10. Strong planning and organisational skills.
11. Numerical skills and the ability to evaluate costs.
At Commercial Express, we are committed to actively seeking and hiring the best people…That’s because people are at the forefront of our Company, and at the heart of everything we do!
We are a successful and dynamic Managing General Agent. We ‘hold the pen‘ of our insurer partners, meaning we can underwrite the products/schemes for them. We then sell these products through our online trading platform through our network of 650 broker partners across the UK, our products combined with our consistent quality service demonstrate our commitment to build and maintain long-term relationships.
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