Overview
The Manager, Risk Framework & Data will provide strategic leadership and technical oversight for MIGA's overall risk framework, risk appetite, portfolio risk management, credit risk, and data and analytics capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide leadership to the team, set strategic direction, build team capability, manage performance, and drive integration across constituent functions.
- Own MIGA's overall risk framework spanning the full product spectrum.
- Oversee the risk appetite statement and its translation into operational limits and policies.
- Deepen the understanding of project-level risks across all guarantee types.
- Ensure the framework remains consistent with MIGA's capital adequacy framework and broader financial sustainability objectives.
- Provide the risk perspective and analytical grounding for new product development.
- Partner with operational teams on new product design from a risk standpoint.
- Oversee portfolio risk management, including monitoring portfolio performance, identifying early warning signals, and producing risk recommendations for senior management.
- Provide strategic oversight of the credit risk function, covering SOE credit assessments, reinsurance counterparty credit ratings, and the risk-limit management framework.
- Oversee MIGFR's data capabilities to support risk analytics and reporting, and contribute to Agency-wide data and analytics priorities.
- Drive continuous improvement in MIGFR's analytical tooling and ensure the function makes effective use of new technologies.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 12 years of directly relevant professional experience.
- Deep experience designing and operating risk frameworks, risk appetite statements, and exposure-limit frameworks in a financial institution.
- Experience with credit risk assessment and rating methodologies in one or more of the following: sovereigns, sub-sovereigns, state-owned enterprises, or reinsurance counterparties.
- Demonstrated experience in financial and portfolio risk management in emerging markets, including monitoring portfolio performance, identifying early warning signals, and producing risk recommendations for senior management.
- Familiarity with data and analytics in a risk-management context.
- Demonstrated experience leading and managing diverse professional teams, including setting strategic direction, managing performance, building team cohesion, and driving operational or institutional change.
- Experienced with designing robust business processes to ensure accurate and high-quality analytical deliverables with strong internal controls.
- Ability to build effective partnerships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong leadership, managerial and organizational skills, ability to effectively plan and allocate resources to deliver the team's work programs in a timely manner with high quality.
- Commitment to innovations and process improvement, including utilizing the latest new technologies.
Qualifications
• Master's degree in Finance, Risk Management, Economics, Business Administration, or other relevant field.
