Senior Digital Risk Advisor

Senior Digital Risk Control Advisor – Data & Technology Finance

Are you passionate about digital risk governance and making organizations more resilient? Join our dynamic team at Swiss Re where you'll help shape how we identify, manage, and mitigate digital risks across our global operations. This role offers you the opportunity to be at the intersection of technology, risk management, and business strategy, helping to protect and strengthen one of the world's leading reinsurance companies.

About the Role

As a Senior Digital Risk Control Advisor, you'll serve as a trusted partner to our Finance IT department, ensuring that digital and technology risks are properly identified, assessed, and controlled, with particular focus on financial data flows, transformations, interfaces, reconciliations and closing activities. You'll help build a robust risk culture while enabling innovation and business growth through effective risk management practices.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead risk assessments and control evaluations for Digital & Technology teams supporting Finance
• Translate financial reporting, operational risk, and regulatory requirements into practical control expectations for finance processes and the supporting applications and data flows
• Design effective internal controls over Financial Reporting and embed them into operational procedures through collaboration with technology teams
• Drive automation and standardization of finance control execution, evidence, monitoring, and reporting, including automated and semi-automated controls
• Collaborate on continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen our risk position
• Build operational transparency through continuous monitoring and assessment of controls against our risk appetite
• Provide transparency on the Finance risk and control landscape to Senior Management
• Coordinate audit activities and serve as the primary point of contact for Internal and External Audits
• Provide expert guidance on digital risk and control activities within Finance IT
• Promote risk awareness by staying current with evolving digital risk requirements and ensuring proper framework implementation
• Foster innovation in risk management approaches and methodologies

About the Team

The Digital Risk Governance & Controls team is a key part of Swiss Re, focused on defining and managing risks related to digital topics. We play a crucial role in helping Swiss Re fulfill its mission of making the world more resilient by ensuring that digital risks are properly identified, assessed, and controlled. Our team combines technical expertise with business acumen to provide practical risk management solutions that protect the organization while enabling innovation and growth.

About You

You're a strategic thinker with a passion for risk management and a collaborative approach to problem-solving. You understand both the technical and business aspects of digital risk and can communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels. You're proactive, detail-oriented, and committed to continuous improvement in risk management practices.

We are looking for candidates who meet these requirements:

• Autonomy, curiosity, proactivity, and confidence in decision-making at speed
• Proven experience in Finance technology risk and controls, financial controls, IT audit supporting Finance, or risk management within a complex financial-services environment
• Good understanding of financial reporting control concepts, including COSO, ICoFR/SOX principles, risk and control self-assessment, and the role of IT general and application controls
• Industry experience in insurance, reinsurance, or banking, with understanding of modern technology solutions
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders from senior managers to IT engineers
• Fluency in spoken and written English

These are additional nice to haves:

• CISA, CGEIT, CRISC or similar professional qualifications
• Experience with control automation and continuous monitoring techniques
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain collaborative networks across IT domains

Our company has a hybrid work model where the expectation is that you will be in the office at least three days per week

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. We cover both Property & Casualty and Life & Health. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.

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