Risk Manager

We’re currently partnering with a leading London Market insurer looking to hire a Risk Manager into their Enterprise Risk Management team. If you’re working in ERM and open to hearing about new opportunities, feel free to get in touch. Key Responsibilities: 🌍 Supporting horizon scanning and deep-dive analysis to identify trends shaping the future risk landscape, while helping translate complex themes into insights for senior stakeholders. 📊 Acting as a key ERM partner responsible for strengthening the risk management framework and delivering critical risk reporting, dashboards, and insights to senior leadership. 🔎 Supporting senior risk leaders with deep dives on topics such as operational resilience, macroeconomic shifts, and geopolitical developments. 🛡️ Collaborating across the risk function to support assessments, governance materials, and initiatives that enhance the effectiveness of the organisation’s risk framework. Contact tyler-rose.kellaway@arthur.co.uk for more info!

🔥 Transformation Senior Lead – London   Are you a senior transformation leader ready to shape one of Europe’s most ambitious multi‑market change programmes? This is a rare opportunity to join a high‑profile Transformation & Change function that is investing heavily in a multi-region expansion across digital modernisation, operational uplift, AI‑driven workflow optimisation as part of thier growth strategy. You’ll be stepping into a senior role with genuine influence, broad scope, and a clear mandate to drive measurable outcomes. The organisation is modernising processes, uplifting underwriting and operational workflows, introducing new product lines, enhancing affinity offerings, and delivering a pan‑European transformation across several major workstreams. You’ll play a pivotal role in delivering cross‑functional change initiatives, leading complex transformation programmes, and shaping the delivery environment across multiple European locations. Your work will directly improve speed, accuracy, decision‑making, and customer experience through technology, automation and AI adoption. This role is ideal for someone who wants to: ✨ Lead multi‑stream transformation across several regions ✨ Partner closely with senior stakeholders to define and deliver strategic change ✨ Drive AI and workflow automation initiatives that materially uplift business performance ✨ Influence operating models across Europe ✨ Join a growing transformation function with strong investment, strong leadership and clear executive sponsorship ✨ Work in a hybrid model (2 days per week in office, plus monthly European travel) You’ll have autonomy, visibility, and the platform to deliver high‑impact change across a complex, multinational environment if you have the below:  ✔ 5 years delivering transformation in insurance or financial services ✔ 6–7 years shaping large‑scale programmes (Big 4 or similar highly desirable) ✔ Experience leading multi‑workstream , multi‑region transformation ✔ Hands‑on delivery expertise — not just oversight ✔ Strong stakeholder, communication and influencing skills ✔ Exposure to AI, workflow automation, underwriting or operational transformation ✔ Agile delivery experience and comfort operating in regulated environments This is an urgent, business‑critical hire, and interviews will take place quickly. If you have the above then please send your CV for a confidential chat

We are supporting a reputable Lloyd's specialty broker in their search for a Sanctions Lead/Sanctions Manager. Reporting into the Head of Financial Crime, the Sanctions Manager is responsible for ensuring the Group maintains robust, effective and compliant sanctions systems and controls to effectively mitigate the risk of breaching trade or financial sanctions. Acting as the Group’s sanctions subject matter expert, the role provides authoritative advice, training, guidance and interpretation of sanctions legislation – particularly in relation to complex and high-risk areas, such as Russia and marine-related sanctions. Key Duties Serve as the organisation’s primary point of contact for sanctions matters, delivering clear, timely, and practical guidance to the business. Maintain up-to-date knowledge of UK, EU, US, UN, and other relevant sanctions regimes, analysing changes and interpreting their impact on operations. Advise on the practical implications of sanctions updates, ensuring business teams understand obligations and associated risks. Act as the key escalation point for complex sanctions queries and screening issues. Draft, maintain, and review sanctions-related financial crime policies, procedures, and supporting documentation, ensuring alignment with regulatory and legislative developments. Supervise the review, investigation, and escalation of sanctions screening alerts, ensuring timely resolution and appropriate handling of high-risk matters. Ensure that sanctions screening systems and controls remain effective, risk-based, and aligned with regulatory expectations and industry best practices. Monitor business activities to identify and address incidents of non-compliance with financial crime policies relating to sanctions. Ensure the sanctions team follows clear, documented processes for review, investigation, escalation, and record-keeping. Provide training, coaching, and mentorship to sanctions team members, supporting technical development and career progression. Oversee the maintenance of sanctions-related logs, registers, and management information (MI), ensuring data is accurate, complete, and up-to-date. About You You will have worked in an insurance business (preferably P&I club or broker) as part of a financial crime team (Lloyd's will still be considered). Demonstrable experience in dealing with high-level sanctions advisory queries, particularly in marine war risks. A real self starter that can work autonomously. The ability to supervise and potentially undertake direct reports. An excellent verbal and written communicator that is comfortable liaising with senior stakeholders. If this sounds like it is of interest to you, please apply!