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Wise · 1 week ago

Senior Risk Manager

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

Wise is a global technology company focused on transforming how money is moved and managed globally. The Senior Risk Manager will be responsible for the design and implementation of the enterprise risk management framework, focusing on Operational risks while also managing Financial risk initiatives.

Financial Services

Responsibilities

Supporting the implementation and operation of our enterprise risk framework, with a particular focus on Operational risk as well as helping set up our Financial and Prudential risk frameworks, including embedding of the risk and control self assessment process, risk incident post mortems and issues management

Partnering with ‘first line’ teams across the business to support the design and launch of new products and features by ensuring that key risks are identified and mitigated prior to launch

Managing and following up on operational risk events and issues that occur

Support first line teams in documenting, solutioning, and prioritising control gaps

Ongoing oversight of issue remediation activities using our risk management tool (Audit Board) to ensure appropriate risk focused prioritisation, and help validate closure of remediated issues

Conduct in-depth reviews, risk assessments and control mapping across our most material risks, and help design scalable control monitoring programs

Supporting the development and implementation of risk policies, procedures, key risk indicators, and risk appetite statements

Support and drive the creation of dashboards using data analytics tools to report on key risk indicators in order to help set risk tolerance thresholds and identify actionable insights

Coordinate the quarterly residual risk assessment process across the risk taxonomy, including loss and incident reporting, to inform our regional risk profile for reporting to local and global risk committees, and to our local board

Promoting and helping embed a proactive risk culture, making risk meaningful and relevant to everyone at Wise

Qualification

Enterprise risk managementOperational risk managementData analysisFinancial risk managementSQLPayment servicesAnalytical skillsProblem-solvingDecision-makingVerbal communicationWritten communicationCollaboration

Required

You have worked in the financial services / banking / fintech sector

You have a keen interest and proven experience in payment services, and operational controls and reporting

You are comfortable with data analysis and data-driven problem solving and solutionising

You have experience across enterprise risk management, inherent and residual risk assessment, risk reporting

You have experience in operational risk management

You have experience supporting risk assessments and/or operational risk event capture and analysis and finding new and innovative ways to do things

You have strong problem-solving, decision-making, and analytical skills to navigate complex situations and make data-driven decisions

You have excellent verbal and written communications skills, and are proficient at drafting concise executive style narratives for risk committees and board reporting

You're resilient and comfortable working independently in a fast paced environment where the day to day job differs

You're curious and collaborative - you're great at asking incisive questions to pick things up and act on them quickly