Chief Risk Officer in Life Insurance

4 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia beBeeRisk Full time $180,000 - $250,000
Senior Risk Manager in Life Insurance

A unique opportunity awaits you to drive strategic growth and lead a team in shaping the future of risk management in life insurance.

  • Drive risk awareness and embed clear risk–reward trade offs in decision making, ensuring timely execution of risk frameworks across all risk types.

You will present risk reporting and opinions to senior committees, own risk appetite monitoring, participate in governance forums, and manage relationships with regulators, auditors, and stakeholders.

This role offers leadership development with potential progression to a CRO role.

Key Responsibilities:
  • 10+ years' experience in risk management, including life insurance.
  • Deep expertise across all risk types, with hands-on application of controls and remediation.
  • Strong knowledge of the Australian insurance market, its regulatory landscape, and life insurance risk characteristics.
  • Solid understanding of enterprise risk management frameworks and risk governance best practice.
  • Experience operating within APRA and ASIC frameworks, including direct regulator engagement.
  • Strong analytical and strategic thinking, able to translate analysis into clear recommendations.
  • Excellent stakeholder, presentation, and influencing skills; builds trusted relationships.
  • Proven commercial judgment; comfortable with ambiguity, complexity, and competing priorities.
  • Demonstrated people leadership: motivates, develops, and manages a small team.
  • Proactive mindset with a track record of evolving risk practices and driving continuous improvement.
  • Strong written and verbal communication; effectively advocates for risk outcomes.
Why Choose This Opportunity?
  • 5 weeks of annual leave through our leave initiative.
  • 15 days of personal/carer's leave to manage wellbeing.
  • Hybrid working arrangement – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home per week.

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