Head of Insurance Risk

4 days ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) Full time $200,000 - $250,000 per year

The role

As APRA's Head of Insurance Risk, Financial Risk you will lead a team of insurance risk specialists spanning general insurance, life insurance and private health insurance. You will support APRA's mission of ensuring Australians' financial interests are protected and that the financial system is stable, competitive, and efficient. With unparalleled access to insurance risk information and the most senior insurance professionals in APRA regulated entities, your team:

  • monitors insurance risk across the Australian financial system to inform APRA action;
  • undertakes prudential reviews of regulated entity insurance risk activity in conjunction with APRA supervisors;
  • devises insurance risk mitigation strategies where risk is outside prudential tolerances;
  • provides insurance risk specialist advice; and

    supports the development of APRA prudential standards, practice guides and other insurance risk related prudential policy.

You may also be involved in providing advice to other areas of government, including Treasury and the Department of Health and engage internationally with peer regulators and the International Association of Insurance Supervisors.

The team

Financial Risk Specialist Teams are APRA's centre of excellence for financial risk and are set within the Cross-industry Risk Division. The Cross-Industry Risk Division houses all APRA risk specialist teams, bringing together a financial system wide perspective and assessing priority areas for APRA's prudential response across all APRA's regulated industries. Further, the division provides advice and collaborates with frontline supervisors to enable them to fulfil their supervisory function.

Key responsibilities

  • Lead, manage and develop a team of insurance risk specialists to deliver APRA's insurance risk needs, including on-site insurance risk reviews of regulated entities
  • Set strategic direction and business plan of the Insurance Risk team, consistent with the APRA Corporate Plan
  • Monitor, assess the insurance risk environment across the Australian financial system for relevant prudential vulnerabilities and, and where appropriate, recommend an APRA balanced but proactive response
  • Collaborate with other Cross-Industry Risk Division specialists to provide a cohesive prudential risk view across all risk classes for Australia's financial system
  • Provide specialist technical advice on insurance risk related matters, ensuring the team maintains a deep level of expertise in insurance risk and current and emerging issues in insurance risk management more broadly, both domestically and internationally
  • Oversee the development of insurance risk system-wide and relevant entity insights
  • Provide specialist input into APRA's prudential policy, data collections and reporting in relation to insurance risk
  • Provide subject matter expertise in support of APRA's senior leadership, internal governance committees, and other internal and external stakeholders
  • Contribute to branch and divisional leadership activities, priorities workflow and manage resources accordingly; and
  • Model inclusive leadership behaviours and instilling an open culture where divergent views are shared and respected.

About you

  • Deep knowledge, understanding and experience in the field of insurance risk
  • Demonstrable expertise across people, project, and resource management
  • Solid strategic leadership capabilities, relationship building, negotiation and influencing capability at senior level
  • Ability to scan a breadth of information sources and apply experience and judgement to identify, raise emerging trends, and identify usage within organisational context
  • Demonstrated ability to identify strategic insurance risk issues and develop and implement appropriate solutions
  • Strong personal integrity and an intuitive understanding of what is reasonable and prudent business practice
  • Ability to establish and maintain sound working relationships with peers, team members and external stakeholders in a professional team environment; and
  • Professional qualifications in relevant field or equivalent experience.

To work with us, you need to be an Australian citizen with eligibility to gain a Baseline Security clearance.

About APRA

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) places you at the heart of Australia's financial services industry. APRA serves the Australian community by helping ensure financial institutions deliver on the financial commitments they make, within a stable, efficient and competitive financial system.

At APRA we're committed to providing an inclusive workplace where everyone belongs, feels valued and respected. We aspire to attract and foster diversity of background, thought, and experience, recognising that a broad range of perspectives, approaches and ideas makes us stronger, and better enables us to meet our obligation to protect the financial wellbeing of the Australian community. When applying, please inform us of any adjustments you may need during the interview process.



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