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Senior Risk Manager L&H Asia Pacific

Swiss Re’s life and health risk manager independently assesses insurance exposures and transactions. The role uses actuarial judgement and modelling to challenge assumptions and support portfolio risk decisions.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Review risk in significant life and health transactions
Analyse exposures and aggregation against limits
Challenge assumptions in risk deep dives
Advise business leaders on risk appetite and mitigation

What they ask for

Required

Life and health reinsurance expertise
Analytical modelling
Actuarial risk techniques
Independent critical judgement
Senior-stakeholder communication
Cross-team collaboration

Preferred

Structured transactions
Stochastic modelling
Capital and financial-market risk

Education: Qualified actuary preferred; other quantitative backgrounds with appropriate experience are accepted.
Experience: Ideally ten or more years in life insurance or reinsurance.

How to prepare

Explain key assumptions in a life-reinsurance risk assessment
Build a stress example for an insurance exposure
Present a constructive challenge to a transaction risk model

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Swiss Re and doesn’t handle applications.