Director, Alt. Capital Strategy Risk Financing
$233,000–$420,000 year
On-siteNew York City, New York, United States or Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Job Summary
Own the enterprise alternative capital strategy by defining frameworks for evaluating third-party capital, structured reinsurance, and insurance-linked securities to optimize capital efficiency and reduce earnings volatility. Identify and originate strategic opportunities across collateralized solutions, sidecars, and loss portfolio transfers while segmenting use cases for tail risk protection and income volatility management. Translate market developments into actionable recommendations for executive leadership, framing trade-offs and driving timely decisions on transaction economics and counterparty exposure. Lead external market engagement with brokers, reinsurers, and investors to expand access to capital and strengthen market position, while establishing governance and performance measurement for all initiatives. Represent Liberty Mutual with stakeholders across Finance, Reinsurance, Actuarial, and business units to ensure alignment with enterprise growth objectives and rating agency considerations.
Required Qualifications
- Significant experience in alternative capital, investment banking, reinsurance, insurance-linked securities, structured risk transfer, capital markets, corporate finance, risk financing, or insurance enterprise risk management
- Demonstrated ability to own and lead complex enterprise initiatives from strategy development through prioritization, recommendation, approval, execution, and performance measurement
- Deep understanding of reinsurance structures, third-party capital, insurance risk transfer, capital optimization, risk financing, and enterprise financial drivers
- Strong ability to evaluate opportunities through cost of capital, capital efficiency, TBV impact, earnings volatility, downside protection, rating agency, accounting, regulatory, tax, legal, and enterprise risk lenses
- Proven ability to synthesize complex analysis into executive-level recommendations, including clear implications, trade-offs, and decision points
- Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to frame decisions, articulate trade-offs, influence senior stakeholders, and drive alignment
- Established market relationships with brokers, reinsurers, investors, banks, capital markets participants, or other alternative capital counterparties
- Ability to operate with ambiguity, create structure, drive accountability, and deliver measurable outcomes
- Strong people leadership skills, including coaching, prioritization, talent development, and performance management
- 25% travel
Desired Qualifications
- Experience leading or materially shaping insurance-linked securities, collateralized reinsurance, sidecar, structured quota share, loss portfolio transfer, adverse development cover, reserve sidecar, portfolio facility, or other alternative capital transactions
- Experience advising or influencing senior leadership on capital management, risk financing, reinsurance, volatility, enterprise risk, or strategic financial decisions
- Experience evaluating opportunities based on economic attractiveness, strategic impact, investor appetite, execution feasibility, and alignment with enterprise growth priorities
- Advanced degree, CFA, CPA, actuarial credential, CPCU, ARM, or equivalent professional experience
- Broad understanding of P&C insurance, underwriting portfolios, catastrophe risk, casualty risk, reserving, capital modeling, reinsurance economics, and rating agency capital frameworks
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