About the Role
Serve as a technical expert supporting underwriting teams, clients, and the broader cyber reinsurance strategy. Responsibilities include risk assessment, methodology development, incident response, advisory services, and underwriting to enhance the cyber underwriting approach.
Responsibilities
- Assess cyber risks by evaluating security controls, governance frameworks, and risk management practices.
- Conduct technical reviews of cyber questionnaires, security assessments, and client cyber maturity against recognized frameworks.
- Provide technical underwriting recommendations for risk selection, pricing, portfolio management, and emerging exposures.
- Support the development and enhancement of cyber insurance and reinsurance solutions.
- Partner with stakeholders to discuss cyber risk exposures, incident response, security controls, and risk improvement opportunities.
- Monitor cyber threat trends, ransomware developments, and regulatory changes to strengthen underwriting capabilities.
- Deliver cyber risk awareness sessions, workshops, and advisory services.
- Support the execution of the company’s cyber growth strategy.
- Build and maintain relationships with brokers, cedants, insurers, clients, and strategic partners.
- Identify new business opportunities, emerging market segments, and industry trends.
- Translate complex cyber security concepts into practical business insights.
- Collaborate with internal teams to develop client-focused solutions and market insights.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience in cyber security, cyber risk consulting, cyber underwriting, information security, cyber resilience, or related cyber risk management disciplines.
- Experience engaging senior stakeholders and delivering technical and commercial recommendations.
- Demonstrated business development, relationship management, or client engagement experience.
- Ability to identify growth opportunities and develop trusted partnerships.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work effectively both independently and within international virtual teams.
- Proactive learner with adaptability to emerging technologies, evolving cyber threats, and innovation initiatives.
Skills
- Cyber security
- Cyber risk consulting
- Cyber underwriting
- Information security
- Cyber resilience
- Risk management
- Cyber security frameworks
- Information security governance
- Incident response
- Third-party risk assessment
- Business development
- Relationship management
- Client engagement
- English
- Mandarin
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum 5 years
Education Level
- Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline
- Relevant industry certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CISA, GIAC, CCSP, CCSK, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor/Implementer)
About the Company
- Munich Re is a trusted, forward-thinking organization.
- The Cyber team is a leading provider of cyber reinsurance solutions.
- The team oversees markets across Australia, New Zealand, Greater China and Africa.
- The team develops and drives cyber reinsurance solutions across commercial and personal lines.
- The team covers both portfolio-based and single-risk business.
- The team contributes to Munich Re’s global cyber ambitions.
Equal Opportunity
- At Munich Re, we embrace, and value, the interaction of diverse backgrounds, experiences, perspectives and thought. This interaction is our foundation. Of our open culture and spirit of partnership. Of how our teams are built and cultivated. Of how we are supported and developed. And at the center of this interaction is each of us.
