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About the Role

This senior role within the Risk Function supports the Chief Risk Officer in developing, embedding, and overseeing the enterprise-wide Risk Management Framework for Everest Managing Agency Limited, including Lloyd’s Syndicate 2786 and related entities. A key focus is fostering a strong risk culture, ensuring risks are identified, understood, escalated, and managed in line with the firm's risk appetite and strategic objectives. The role acts as a second-line partner, providing value through reviews, challenge, and assurance to support sustainable and compliant growth within the Lloyd's market.

Responsibilities

Support the CRO in leading the development, implementation, and embedding of the Risk Management Framework.
Promote a strong and proactive risk culture through stakeholder engagement, challenge, and business partnering.
Provide risk oversight, advice, and constructive challenge to senior management and first-line teams.
Contribute to the evolution of a forward-looking, insight-led Risk Function.
Lead the annual Lloyd’s syndicate ORSA process end-to-end.
Ensure the ORSA provides a clear, coherent, and forward-looking view of the firm’s risk profile and solvency position.
Support embedding of ORSA as a meaningful business and decision-making tool.
Lead the development and review of forward-looking assessment and stress and scenario testing.
Support the annual and ad-hoc Lloyd’s Internal Model validation process from a second-line perspective.
Own the validation plan, including scoping, stakeholder coordination, delivery tracking, governance reporting, and action closure.
Provide effective oversight and challenge across modelling, assumptions, limitations, and outputs.
Support the CRO in maintaining robust Internal Model governance.
Support the preparation of the validation report.
Lead the enhancement and embedding of the RCSA framework across the business.
Drive consistency, quality, and usability of RCSA outputs for risk oversight and decision-making.
Oversee and enhance the risk event framework for timely identification, escalation, assessment, and reporting.
Analyse risk events, near misses, and control weaknesses to identify underlying themes and systemic risks.
Ensure material risk events are escalated appropriately to senior management, committees, and the Board.
Identify and lead targeted deep dive reviews across operational, underwriting, regulatory, and emerging risks.
Use MI (risk events, RCSA, KRIs, audit findings, regulatory developments) to prioritise areas of focus.
Deliver clear, insight-driven outputs that provide practical recommendations and add value to the business.

Requirements

Significant experience in risk management within the insurance sector, notably within the Lloyd’s / London Market.
Strong understanding of Enterprise Risk Management frameworks, ORSA, risk appetite, risk and control self-assessment, risk event management, and governance reporting.
Experience of Internal Model governance, validation processes, capital model oversight, or Solvency UK / Lloyd’s regulatory requirements.
Proven ability to engage with senior stakeholders and provide constructive challenge across underwriting, actuarial, capital, operations, finance, claims, and exposure management.
Experience leading cross-functional risk processes, thematic reviews, deep dives, or risk assurance activity.
Strong understanding of operational risk, underwriting risk, control environments, and second-line oversight responsibilities.

Skills

Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
Ability to build credibility across senior management and first-line business functions.
Ability to operate independently, manage multiple priorities, and deliver high-quality outputs in a dynamic environment.
Ability to provide clear, proportionate, and commercially aware risk challenge.
Proficient in MS Office applications (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Location

London

Work Type

Regular
Full time

Experience Level

8+ years of relevant experience within the insurance sector.

About the Company

Everest is a global leader in risk management, rooted in a rich, 50+ year heritage of enabling businesses to survive and thrive, and economies to function and flourish.
We are underwriters of risk, growth, progress and opportunity.
We are a global team focused on disciplined capital allocation and long-term value creation for all stakeholders, who care deeply about our impact on communities and the wider world.
Our purpose is to provide the world with protection.
We help clients and businesses thrive, fuel global economies, and create sustainable value for our colleagues, shareholders and the communities that we serve.
We pride ourselves on having a unique and inclusive culture which is driven by a unified set of values and behaviors.
Our Values are the guiding principles that inform our decisions, actions and behaviors: Talent. Thoughtful assumption of risk. Execution. Efficiency. Humility. Leadership. Collaboration. Inclusion and Belonging.
Our Colleague Behaviors define how we operate and interact with each other: Respect everyone. Pursue better. Lead by example. Own our outcomes. Win together.

Equal Opportunity

At Everest we are dedicated to building an inclusive and authentic workplace.
If you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every element in the job description, we still encourage you to apply.
You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Please let us know if you need any accommodations throughout the application or interview process.