Aviva Life Insurance - Financial Risk Manager

Risk Governance

- Embedding risk policies and business standard across the insurance and financial risk area.

- Support the reporting manager in enhancing the quality of discussions, risk based decision making and MI, which goes into Risk and key committees such as ALCO, IC.

- Ensure that the capital and risk appetite framework (across all risk types) are aligned with the BU's risk strategy and are used in decision-making across the business.

- Pro-actively providing oversight of aggregated risk profile monitoring through the review and challenge of key risks registers, risk exposure against appetite, trends and the identification of material changes in risk profile and emerging risks.

- Maintain the key risk register-Ongoing dialogue /engagement with relevant stakeholders to identify and manage their top 5 risks and emerging risk identification

- Publish a risk Dashboard/MI comprising of Key risks from and an ERM perspective, taking into account RCSA results, KRIs, Loss Events, Open audit issues etc on a quarterly basis.

Business Strategy and Analysis

- Analysis of key financial matrices such as MCEV, IFRS profit, solvency, ALM etc.

- Perform reviews of critical processes such as model validation, economic capital, reserving, MCEV, Stress testing, pricing etc

- Perform financial risk reviews such as Liquidity risk, interest rate risk, credit risk etc.

- Perform insurance risk review such as mortality, lapses, expenses etc.

- Perform review of experience analysis such as mortality, lapses, expenses, investment, new business etc

- Review of new product pricing from technical and commercial point of view.

- Review of assumptions as and when it is updated.

- Embed effective use of SST, risk management framework, ORSA, RCSA etc.

- Deep dive in the area of Investment Function

- Work on benchmarking our processes with industry/other business units and sharpen focus on key risk areas, from knowledge sharing and best practices

- Work with the risk team in enhancing their capabilities by providing learning opportunities (internally/ externally)

- Increasing productivity and efficiency by embedding use of data analytics, for risk thematic reviews/ERM monitoring of key organization wide risks

Qualifications

- Completed at least CT series of Institute of Actuaries of India examinations or have degree in Investment Management or CA with Investment Background or qualification in FRM

- 4 + years experience in the life Insurance industry

- Graduate in mathematics, statistics, commerce, Finance or in related field.

Skills / Knowledge

- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

- Knowledge of economic capital models, SST and risk appetite methodologies.

- Practical working knowledge of working in investment department

- Ability to communicate complex ideas effectively to both technical and non-technical audience.

- Ability to influence others to adopt new/different processes and systems.

- Good report writing and presentation skills.