Senior Vice President – Risk (Caribbean)

About the role

Sagicor Group Caribbean is seeking a Senior Vice President – Risk to lead risk across its diversified financial services platform, including insurance, banking, pensions, investment banking, real estate, cambio and remittance services in Jamaica and Barbados.

Key responsibilities

• Operationalize the Group’s Enterprise Risk Management Framework, Risk Appetite Framework, taxonomy, policies and governance across all subsidiaries.
• Provide independent advice and forward‑looking risk insight to executive leadership, Boards and Board Committees, ensuring material risks are identified, assessed, escalated and reported.
• Lead an integrated second‑line risk function, maintaining consistent risk language, reporting and culture while meeting local regulatory requirements.
• Oversee enterprise risk identification, assessment, monitoring, scenario analysis and stress‑testing, including regional coordination of SFC‑led stress tests.
• Monitor subsidiary risk profiles, material exposures, appetite breaches and remediation plans, escalating issues to Group CRO as needed.
• Provide oversight of underwriting standards, market, liquidity, interest‑rate, foreign‑exchange, investment and asset‑liability risk frameworks.
• Supervise operational risk, cyber and information security risk governance, assessments and incident oversight.
• Challenge and align strategic initiatives and transformation programs with Group risk frameworks and governance expectations.

Required profile

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of senior leadership experience in enterprise risk management within diversified financial institutions.
• Proven multi‑jurisdictional second‑line leadership across ERM, risk appetite, scenario analysis, credit, market, liquidity, operational and cyber risk.
• Experience influencing executive and Board‑level decision‑making and supporting enterprise‑wide stress‑testing processes.
• Strong strategic perspective, ethical judgement and commitment to integrity.