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AVP, Corporate Underwriting Risk & Governance

Toronto, Ontario, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Corporate risk subject matter expert accountable for maintaining underwriting philosophy, risk appetite, technical standards, and governance framework across life and health insurance businesses globally, with emphasis on Asia and Private Wealth.

Role type

Senior IC corporate underwriting risk & governance leader

Builds

Enterprise underwriting governance standards, risk mitigation strategies, and underwriting manuals/guidelines for life, health, and high-net-worth products

Domain

Insurance (Life, Health, Critical Illness, Disability) + Risk Management + High-Net-Worth/Private Wealth

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

enterprise underwriting governance, mortality and morbidity risk assessment, product design risk analysis, fraud risk oversight, retention and reinsurance management, high-net-worth underwriting expertise, cross-functional strategic leadership, underwriting manual development, emerging risk trend analysis

Preferred skills

individual underwriting approval authority ($30M+), FALU designation, FLMI designation

Technologies

underwriting automation tools, digital underwriting solutions, reinsurance frameworks

Responsibilities

evaluate proposed changes to underwriting requirements and evidence, assess mortality and morbidity implications of product innovations, identify emerging fraud risks and recommend controls, provide technical leadership on high-net-worth and complex financial underwriting cases, lead cross-functional underwriting initiatives across multiple jurisdictions, represent the organization in industry associations and forums

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic advisory scope

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