Risk - Operational Risk Metrics - VP - Warsaw

Divisional Overview

The Risk Division is a team of specialists charged with managing the firm’s credit, market, liquidity, and operational risk. The metrics program Vice President role sits within Operational Risk which develops and implements risk assessment and oversight frameworks designed to identify, monitor, and manage non-financial risks such as those associated with systems, people, processes, and external events. The risk division is ideal for collaborative individuals who have strong ethics, quantitative backgrounds and pay close attention to detail.

Role Overview

As a Vice President in the Operational Risk Metrics Program team you will be responsible for designing, driving and implementing the firmwide operational risk metric program. This includes setting overall strategy for metrics that accurately measure operational risks, formalizing requirements in policy and standards documents, and ensuring effective and efficient implementation of the program through supporting processes and systems. Operational risk metrics are used in board, risk committee and senior management risk understanding and decision making. This role requires an energetic self-starter that can work as part of a network of cross-regional business, operations, finance and engineering teams and liaise with a diverse group of senior stakeholders across the firm. Strong analytical and interpersonal skills as well as a strong desire to learn will be required from day one.

Responsibilities

• Design and drive the Operational Risk Metrics Framework ensuring Metrics are fit for purpose, timely, and reported to drive risk understanding and decision making across the firm.
• Develop presentation materials for senior management, executive committees, and regulatory exams on metric proposals, developments, and performance.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to onboard, refine and automate Operational Risk Metrics.
• Design and implement scalable workflows, processes, and procedures to provide effective governance of Operational Risk Metrics.
• Participate in ongoing BAU processes including metric collection, breach and trend commentary creation, and issue resolution.
• Design & create mock-ups of dashboards or reporting to visualize metric performance, and the overall health of the metric program. Collaborate with Engineering teams to implement these.
• Contribute to the design, implementation and testing of strategic Metrics infrastructure.

Qualifications, Skills & Aptitude

• Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Economics, Finance, Computer Science, Statistics or Engineering.
• 5-10 Years experience, preferably in the financial industry, and risk management specifically
• Strong analytical, communication and organisational skills
• Experience developing workflows, data visualizations and business intelligence solutions using tools such as, but not limited to, Tableau, Alteryx, PowerBI, Python, SQL.
• Familiarity with operational risk frameworks is strongly preferred.
• Quick learner who can thrive working as part of a cross-regional team while also delivering high-quality independent work.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a focus on delivery.