Legal & General · 1 hour ago
Senior Operational Risk & Resilience Manager
Chicago, IL
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$140K/yr - $160K/yr
7+ years expLegal & General is a major investor in public and private markets worldwide, and they are seeking a Senior Operational Risk & Resilience Manager. This role will focus on supporting operational resilience across Asset Management teams and providing operational risk support, ensuring effective risk management and compliance with regulatory requirements.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Collaborate with Operations Leadership to oversee and manage initiatives and BAU activities, enhancing risk management, operational resilience, and scalability to contribute to reducing to risks to our customers
Ensure teams identify and review key risks, potential errors, and exposures regularly
Maintain close relationships with Operations teams to improve processes and reduce operational risk
Oversee resilience controls and documentation, ensuring alignment with Asset Management frameworks, industry best practices, and regulatory requirements
Review errors/incidents/events, manage resulting actions, and ensure readiness for audits/compliance reviews
Provide updates to Governance Committees, and ensure teams understand their compliance roles
Assist with ad-hoc regulatory/governance responses, provide management information for strategy formulation, and ensure effective incident/crisis management and resilience testing
Provide cover and ad-hoc support to wider COO Operational Risk Team as appropriate
Qualification
Required
Degree level or equivalent demonstrable experience
Strong academic background. Preferably a professional certificate, e.g. IMC, IAQ, CFA
A professional qualification is desirable but not essential; e.g. accounting, Internal audit, Risk management or Compliance qualification
Good understanding of risk and regulatory issues for financial services business
Good knowledge of risk and control frameworks and resilience risks relating to business operations, technology platforms, digital channels, third parties and cloud based services
Good knowledge across the following resilience disciplines: Business continuity, Incident and Crisis management, Disaster Recovery, Technology Resilience and supplier/vendor management
Good knowledge of IT environments
Management of business critical processes
Minimum of 7+ years' experience within operational risk management
Experience in Financial Services
Experience in roles that require a “hands on” capacity ensuring that the individual can manage a heavy workload, and is able to prioritize and manage accordingly to ensure deadlines are met and exceeded where possible
Involvement in crisis and recovery during significant events and major operational outages
Development and testing of business recovery plans
Understanding of technology, suppliers and outsource vendors and their resilience governance/oversight
Pro-active in terms of supporting the business and team in other areas. Strong team player
Strong organizational and action planning skills, able to work to deadlines
Excellent communication skills in both verbal and written formats
Ability to get buy-in within a department and across a division at senior levels, including senior management/Board engagement
Confident and able to present in structured manner
Effective at making decisions and delivering great outcomes
Pragmatic approach and good understanding of business issues and pressures
Strong analytical skills, enquiring mind, with a tenacious approach
Accurate with attention to detail
Benefits
Health insurance with an optional HSA
Short term disability
Long term disability
Dental insurance
Vision care
Life insurance
Healthcare
Dependent and Limited Care Flexible Spending Accounts
401K
Vacation
Sick time
An employee assistance program
Commuter and transit programs
Supplemental health benefits including accidental injury
Critical illness and hospital indemnity insurance
Pet insurance
Company
Legal & General
Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Joseph Stefanacci
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