Zurich, Zurich, CH
About Swiss Re
Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.
At Swiss Re we combine experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise to create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 13,000 employees across the world.
We offer a flexible working environment where curious and adaptable people thrive. Are you interested in joining us?
About the Role
Are you looking for a new challenge at the intersection of Risk Management and Treasury? Do you love to work in an intellectually stimulating, interdisciplinary, and international environment? If yes, find out more about our open position for the Head Risk Frameworks & Corporate Risks! In this position, you will lead a team of five highly qualified professionals.
The team's main responsibilities are:
• Maintain and further develop the core risk frameworks of the company setting the risk appetite and limits as well as laying out the risk governance (Group Risk Policy, Group Risk Management Standards, Limit Framework)
• Cover firm-wide valuation and steering topics from a Group Risk Management perspective, eg. by providing views on methodology questions related to economic valuation or target liability portfolio as well as delivering risk inputs into the corresponding processes
• Maintain and further develop the Group's liquidity stress methodology, provide inputs into the liquidity stress calculation and review liquidity aspects of transactions
• Perform oversight over Treasury activities such as capital management and funding
• Serve as authority on corporate risks, e.g. emanating from Swiss Re's Group structure and global presence
You will work closely with a variety of Group and Business Unit functions, especially Treasury and other Risk Management departments. You will gain a deep understanding of how the company operates across a worldwide network of subsidiaries, both from a risk and from a capital and liquidity management point of view.
About the Team
We are a team of five Zürich based risk managers. We are responsible for key risk frameworks as well as oversight of corporate risks. We work with numerous internal and external stakeholders in Risk Management, Actuarial, Finance, Investments and Underwriting.
About You
• 12+ years of experience in Risk Management and/or Treasury in a financial institution
• In-depth understanding of capital and liquidity management, economic valuation, and ALM
• Ability to quickly grasp incentive alignment problems and the resulting governance needs
• Outstanding conceptual and analytical skills with a creative mind set
• Ability to establish trusted stakeholder relations while maintaining a risk manager perspective
• Ability to explain complex topics in a simple, structured manner
• Excellent command of spoken and written English
• Motivational team lead
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.
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