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Orange, Nsw, Au

Remote

Set up and program manage the ASIC Pricing Review remediation program. Manage all workstreams and lead the team across the program for the find, fix, repay and report stages aligned to RG277 and ASIC’s expectations.

Sydney & Remote

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

A key member of the GI leadership team, responsible for Line 1 Risk and Entity Management. Leading four teams; Risk Analytics (technical actuarial team responsible for large remediations ), Risk Assurance (the control function), Compliance, and Risk & Entity Management (traditional risk activities). A key component of the role is governance, including writing of specific Board papers and oversight and collation of all other Board and Committee papers including preparation of the GM / EGM for Board where applicable. This is challenging and rewarding role which has seen the face of risk change from a compliance driven function to an advisory team who through successful engagement with the business has driven risk maturity, business ownership and proactive risk management to the next level.

Sydney, Australia

Emea Region - Based Out Of London (Sydney From July 2014)

Senior Regional Risk Officer reporting to the Regional CRO and Group Head of Operational RiskLeading a team of risk professionals across the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. Primarily responsible for maintaining and enhancing all elements of the local and regional risk management frameworks to adhere to Statutory and Solvency II (SII) Requirements to include the identification, measurement, management, monitoring and reporting of risks. Reporting to local and regional management and preparation of reporting packs to Legal Entity Boards and all Corporate Risk Reporting including input to Legal Entity ORSAEnhanced risk appetite monitoring and development of a suite of KRIs are among some of the significant enhancements made to the framework in addition to an overhaul of all risk policies to meet SII and Legal Entity requirementsSpecific projects include providing leading contributions to the development of a consistent Global Risk Management Framework. Working closely with the Global Heads of Governance, Risk and Compliance to deign a global GRC toolSince transition to Sydney, working in a contract role enhancing the global ERM framework to include build out of risk and controls libraries. Assist with activities in the APAC Region including drafting the operational risk elements to the Japanese ORSA.

Canary Wharf, London

Regional Risk Director - Western Europe (Continental Branches), reporting to the Western Europe CRO. Responsible for Western Europe Branch integration into the Irish Super Carrier from a risk and governance perspective – adopting Solvency II (SII) principles in a BAU environment. Responsible to ensure branches identify, measure, manage, monitor and report on risks and adopt the parent’s risk strategy, risk appetite and risk framework. Development of risk appetite metrics aligned to parent, risk registers, loss reporting, KRI/KPI development, risk and control self assessments and corporate governance are some of the key activities although this is not an exhaustive list. Input into company stress and scenarios and the annual ORSA report. From Q3 2013 roll out of Economic Captial (2012 to date)

London, United Kingdom

SII Pillar 2 Risk Director and lead risk person responsible for the rollout of the SII program for whole of the EEA. Responsibilities included input into the new European governance structure, writing of policies, development of outsourcing program, training and education of local operations (including travel to each EEA entity as required), co-ordination of Pillar 2 activities with Pillars 1 & 3 and setting up businesses for BAU activities (2010-2011)

Uk

Risk lead for the Gap Analysis phase of the Alico Solvency II project for 17 EEA Companies – travelling to each operation to performing the Gap Analysis. Participating in the planning of the roll-out of the next steps for SII from a predominantly risk perspective (2009-2010)

Worldwide And Uk

Risk Manager on the US Corporate Risk Team, working with the local operations and regional CFO’s to promote company-wide awareness of risks and controls, building relationships with key personnel across Alico. Act as a liaison between the local operations and Home Office. Training of local personnel on the RCSA (Risk Control Self Assessment) program including risk identification and preparation of their risk registers. Writing technical articles for the ORM newsletter and leading the ERM newsletter (2008 – 2010) Preparing the 7 largest Alico Companies worldwide for SOX compliance, including assisting with the documentation of key processes and work flows and review of key controls. Training local staff on the SOX methodology both on site and remotely (2005 – 2008)Enterprise, Risk and Control Manager, performing Operational and Financial reviews of field operations including follow-up of open audit points and PwC recommendations; Ensuring all new company directives were operating effectively including, but not limited to, the AIG Balance Sheet Reconciliations Policy, AML, BCP and OFAC (sanctions checks). Monitoring the risk impacts of non-compliance with the above. Carried out in tandem with the SOX activities above (2005 – 2008)

Time spent in a 100% travelling role throughout the EMEALAC (Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean) Region reporting to the Regional Head of Audit (VP)Full audits of Life and General Insurance Companies as well as other AIG non-insurance companies including banks, a marketing company & a consumer finance companyExecuting the end to end audit process including audit planning, fieldwork, control weakness identification, liaison with local senior management in respect of audit findings and report preparation Involved with AIG companies for their first year of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance. Assisted in designing the work papers to be utilised by the Internal Audit Department  Performed risk assessment on a country and regional basis Involved in fraud investigations with the Special Investigations Director Transferred to the Alico Risk Team early 2005

Economics, Economics

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