Your Role
You will join Apollo as Head of Enterprise Risk Management, leading the ERM team and embedding a robust, proportionate and forward-looking risk management framework across Apollo and its managed entities.
Reporting to the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, you will ensure regulatory expectations are met, internal models are appropriately governed, and risk insights genuinely inform strategic decision-making at Executive and Board level,
As a Key Function Holder under SM&CR, you will operate at the centre of Apollo’s governance framework, balancing oversight, commercial awareness and strategic influence.
What You’ll Do
- Risk Governance and Regulatory Oversight - Lead the continued development and enhancement of Apollo’s integrated risk management framework; ensure compliance with Lloyd’s, FCA and PRA expectations; provide regular reporting to Executive and Board Risk Committees.
- Strategic Risk Management - Deliver clear, balanced and commercially relevant risk insight to support strategic decisions; evaluate new business initiatives from a second line perspective; lead the ORSA process and production of high-quality ORSA reports and supporting MI.
- Risk Framework and Controls - Oversee risk reporting and remediation; maintain risk registers, loss event reporting and emerging risk tracking; strengthen risk and control assessment processes to ensure meaningful feedback loops.
- Internal Models, Capital and Stress Testing - Ensure independent testing and validation of qualitative and quantitative elements of internal models; design and govern the stress and scenario testing framework across the business.
- Reporting and Stakeholder Engagement - Deliver high-quality ERM reporting to the Board and Executive; maintain strong regulatory engagement; ensure effective internal communication on risk matters.
- Policy and Continuous Improvement - Maintain and evolve risk-related policies, procedures and governance documentation to remain aligned with regulatory expectations and business priorities.
- People and Culture - Lead and develop a team of seven; strengthen risk capability across the organisation; promote accountability, ownership and proportionate risk-taking.
What We Are Looking For
- Enterprise Risk Leadership Experience – Demonstrated experience leading an ERM function within a regulated insurance or Lloyd’s market environment; experience operating at Board and Executive level.
- Regulatory and Governance Expertise – Strong understanding of Lloyd’s, FCA and PRA regulatory frameworks; experience acting within SM&CR governance structures.
- Capital, Internal Model and ORSA Knowledge – Experience overseeing internal model validation, stress and scenario testing, and ORSA production.
- Strategic and Commercial Judgement – Ability to translate complex risk information into clear, balanced insight that supports strategic delivery.
- Leadership and Team Development – Experience leading and developing risk professionals; commitment to building organisational risk capability.
- Communication and Stakeholder Management – Credible, confident communicator able to engage effectively with regulators, Board members and senior stakeholders.
