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Senior Operational Risk Governance Associate
| Company | Santander |
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| Location | Dallas, TX, USA |
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| Salary | $93750 – $165000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Management, or equivalent field or equivalent work experience
- 9+ years in Risk Management in the Financial Services industry
- Advanced PowerPoint and strong organizational skills; detail oriented
- Strong operational risk management principles, methodologies and tools, governance principles and activity preferably in a financial services technology environment
- Knowledge of workflow/processes and risks/controls, including (if applicable): origination, underwriting, servicing, and collections/workout
- Ability to independently operate in a complex, matrixed environment; adept at delivering and maintaining productive working relationships across business, functions, geographies and lines of defense
- Advanced operational risk, process, and control validation and/or assessment skills
- Ability to direct, train and guide peers, subordinates and management
- Ability to handle conflict resolution with other groups to ensure appropriate accounting guidance is followed
- Ability to adjust to new developments/changing circumstances
- Ability to convey a sense of urgency and drive issues/projects to closure
- Ability to effectively interact with the market, executive management and vendors
- Ability to adapt and adjust to multiple demands and competing priorities
Responsibilities
- Execute monthly end-to-end governance process including creating/maintaining schedule of required committee submissions, tracking timely receipt to meet deadlines, reviewing submissions and providing feedback to varying levels of management, aggregating materials and facilitating review meetings with executive management
- Responsible for the strategic development, implementation, and effective execution of the Operational Risk (OR) program, including internal loss, external loss, risk assessment, business impact assessments, KRIs, scenario analysis / stress testing, training, awareness, and communication, issues and remediation planning, tracking, MIS and reporting, testing, compliance, and monitoring
- Ensure adherence to the policies and procedures established by the company
- Manage policy, standard definition and monitoring of policy, standard implementation, ensuring harmonization and consistency of risk policies
- Monitor and manage risk/exposure and compliance with the company’s policies
- Identify, manage and report on the company’s risk areas
- Evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of data, document retention, and monitors systems
- Analyze, measure performance, monitor trends, define limits according for Corporate Banking Op Risk exposures in accordance to Risk Appetite
- Assist in the ongoing oversight of Corporate Banking Operational Risk (OR) Framework in support of the first line of defense
- Contribute to escalation, reporting, communication to Risk Governance Forums
- Help drive culture of risk awareness
- Participate in the creation and delivery of OR business-tailored training
- Support the creation, management and development of OR program strategy, policies and models within the Corporate Banking Business
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
