Job Description:
Risk Oversight & Governance:
- Provide risk management oversight and support for management.
- Support the IT Operational Risk manager in managing regular governance committees by preparing relevant risk reports and highlighting key issues and trends in the risk dashboard.
- Implement the risk and control framework to ensure effective risk management.
Risk Assessment & Reporting:
- Manage ongoing and yearly risk assessments, attestations, and reporting activities.
- Coordinate the implementation of operational risk assessment and supervision of 1st line of defense.
Self-Assessments & Control:
- Facilitate and coordinate self-assessment activities such as Risk & Control Self-Assessment and Regulatory.
Self-Assessment. - Conduct independent controls of 1st level of defense to complement control monitoring as 2nd level of defense, attestations, and review/reporting of regulatory compliance breaches and operational risk incidents.
- Support operational teams in risk assessment and control plan review.
Audit Management:
- Contribute to audit management activities including pre-audit checks, fieldwork, and coordination with audit teams during and after audit engagements.
Risk Monitoring & Issue Tracking:
- Proactively identify risks by monitoring technology performance in risk and compliance management.
- Track resolution of issues arising from regulatory breaches, operational incidents, special reviews, audits, and inspections.
Risk Culture & Awareness:
- Provide training and support to strengthen risk culture and awareness within the organization.
Requirements:
- University degree in information technology, computer science, or a related field.
- Professional certifications such as CISA, CISM, or CRISC are advantageous.
- At least 5 years in a risk & control or audit function within the IT domain (ideally IT infrastructure).
- Extensive experience in managing or assessing the adequacy of controls over technology activities in a banking context.
- Preferably possesses strong knowledge of corporate banking processes and products.
- Strong ability to identify risks, assess control effectiveness, and recommend appropriate control enhancements.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, and conceptual skills.
- Proven experience in leading and managing projects.
- Effective communication, presentation, and influencing skills.
- Ability to liaise with stakeholders across multiple disciplines and levels.
- Hands-on experience in developing solution using MS Office Suite, MS SQL, Visual Basic, Power BI or other technology would be desirable.
- Exposure to AI implementation in the field of process and/or operational control enhancement is an advantage.
