Global Banking & Markets Public, Issue, Events & Risk and Control Self-Assessment Management, Associate - Dallas

About the role

The First Line Global Banking and Markets Risk Operating Unit team employs key components of the firm risk management framework to continuously measure and assess levels of risk for existing and new processes. The team partners with the second line Risk Division to improve consistency of risk measure and assessment practices.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Issue, Events, and Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) key processes for the GBM division, ensuring accurate identification and remediation of issues/events, as well as assessment of operational risk and controls.
• Challenge business units on the completeness and accuracy of Issue, Events, and RCSA.
• Collaborate with Second and Third line teams, such as Compliance and Internal Audit, to ensure alignment and coordination across the risk framework.
• Prepare risk reports and presentations for senior management and governance committees.
• Contribute to the ongoing development and implementation of Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF) tooling, methodology, and best practices.
• Advise, challenge, and inform line teams on recommended ways to mitigate risk; review action items to ensure risk is sufficiently addressed.
• Drive projects improving and maintaining tools supporting the operational risk framework.
• Work closely with senior divisional leadership to implement and support an issue and events management program for Global Banking and Markets, including managing issues/events and remediation.
• Provide guidance on best practices for remediation to ensure sustainable solutions.
• Develop management reporting, dashboards, and strategic tools to highlight high risks, issues, events, RCSA, and facilitate escalation to senior leadership.

Requirements

• 3+ years in the Financial Services / Banking industry.
• Solid knowledge and experience in the Financial Industry.
• Strong interpersonal and analytical skills along with an interest in the broader control environment within financial services.
• Strong control mindset with a passion for risk management.
• Excellent communication skills to clearly articulate issues and ideas with different levels across Global Banking and Markets stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills with an ability to understand complex workflows and excellent attention to detail.
• Sound time management skills to effectively prioritize and multi-task.
• Good interpersonal and teamwork skills to collaborate as a global team and build strong relationships with key stakeholders across divisions.
• Aptitude for handling large data sets and synthesizing a variety of information to describe a risk and control profile.
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Practical experience in Sales and Trading, First Line Risk and Controls, Internal Audit, Risk, Compliance, or Operations functions.
• Knowledge of Data Management and/or Visualization (e.g., Alteryx) is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of Operational Risk is a plus.
• Experience in process redesign and executing strategic concepts from inception to implementation is a plus.