Senior Operational Risk Manager

Office location:BaselDepartment:BankingUnit:
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Employment – Duration:3 YearsContract type:Fixed-termFTE%:100%Application Deadline:26/02/2024

Description

Senior Operational Risk Manager

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is hiring a Senior Operational Risk Manager to join the Project Management Office in the Banking division.

This role is based in Basel, Switzerland however, thanks to our status as an international organization, we can hire globally and welcome applications from candidates of all nationalities and located anywhere in the world. Relocation support is available for the successful candidate and their dependent family members.

Purpose of the job:

Our mission is to support central banks’ pursuit of monetary and financial stability through international cooperation, and to act as a bank for central banks.

You will contribute to this mission by:

• Leading the operational risk management activities within Banking.
• Ensuring a consistent, efficient, and effective approach to address the operational risks across the unit.
• Overseeing Banking rules and standards, as well as monitoring, reporting and advisory of risk posture.

By joining the Project Management Office team in the Banking division, you will:

• Coordinate the operational risk management aspects for the Banking division.
• Support operational risk management in line with the Bank’s 3LOD model to ensure consistency with the best industry practices.
• Benefit from working in an international environment that offers flexible working with a blend of onsite work and home office.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Hands-on providing subject matter expertise to the wider team with regards to the operational risk management across Banking.
• Collaborate across Banking and with the 2LoD to identify key and emerging risks for critical Banking activities, assess (and re-assess) risk exposures and controls during periodic reviews, map business processes to critical activities, and contribute to the Risk Appetite Annual Review.
• Perform and have overall responsibility for inherent, control, and residual risk assessments of identified risks through periodic RCA assessments. Ensuring quality of each assessment.
• Ensure control activities are effective and formulate responses to identified risks and issues. This includes establishing procedures for operations and controls, integrating control and reporting requirements from bank-wide and 2LoD risk policies, ensuring controls for policy compliance, and proactively identifying and reporting on operational incidents, including facilitating root cause analysis and remediation efforts.
• Review and monitor control activities or quality assurance procedures on implemented standards and controls by collecting and monitoring control reports, KRIs, and operational incident data. In addition, work with the management and the control functions to escalate breaches as appropriate. Work to bring risk tolerances back into line, monitor current tolerance levels, and advise management.
• Perform and have overall responsibility for meaningful and tailored risk reporting at all hierarchies enabling an accurate overview of Banking’s underlying operational risk profile and exposure.
• Oversee and coordinate the closure of Banking audit activities.
• Being a trusted advisor to Banking to instil best practice, and provide advice, guidance, and support to management and the department more broadly, especially in relation to operational risks and operational incidents.
• Represent Banking and the BIS externally (when required) in operational risk management coordination and control aspects.

Qualifications, skills, and experience:

• Relevant educational background with strong operational risk management overall experience
• A high level of experience within operational risk management and the 3LoD model for enterprise risk management.
• Experience implementing or coordinating 1LOD operational risk management ideally at a commercial bank or financial market utility.
• Experience facilitating risk management trainings and workshops including material development.
• Excellent drafting and communication skills in English particularly for policy documentation.
• Experience in coordinating interdisciplinary working groups, ideally in an international environment.
• Strong analytical and interpretive thinking skills to solve problems, evaluate options and determine clear and pragmatic ways forward.
• High level of strategic thinking and ability to problem solve in ambiguous situations.
• Strong interpersonal skills with very good collaboration and negotiations skills.

Who we are:

The Bank for International Settlements is a diverse organization with colleagues from over 60 countries. By joining us in the international city of Basel, you will work in a unique, highly rewarding, and international work environment. We truly value diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the world we serve. We want the best people to work for us in an inclusive environment so welcome applications from all qualified candidates. At the BIS, we value equality and diversity in all its forms and one way we support diversity and inclusion is through our staff-run networks.

What the BIS offers:

We want your time at BIS to be a rewarding and career-enriching experience. We offer an agile and flexible working environment with hybrid working opportunities including home office and working from abroad days. To support our international applicants, we offer relocation support that extends to your dependent family members. In addition, thanks to our ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, including support for working families including childcare and education allowances (where applicable). Finally, we offer a genuinely unique international working environment, which will give you exposure to the global financial system and the opportunity to collaborate with passionate experts from all over the world.

We strive to ensure that individuals are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, and to perform essential job functions. Should you wish to request accommodation, support in completing this application or participating in the application process, then please reach out to the recruitment team at staffing@bis.org.