Risk Associate (with Spanish)

Job Description:

Our global client has an exciting opportunity for someone who can speak Spanish to an intermediate level, to join them in Edinburgh in their Operational Risk team.

Key experience:

• Risk Mapping


• Testing of controls


• Operational events governance


• Must be able to get by in Spanish (intermediate level)

• Ideally circa 5 years' experience in operational risk and controls management


• Experience of operating in a highly regulated financial services environment


• Data literate with experience of using data analytics tools and techniques.


• Experience in Business Continuity Management and operational resilience.

• Manage the operational Risk Management Framework including the design and maintenance of risk appetites, risk taxonomy.


• Develop strategies to mitigate risks, ensuring compliance with policies and regulations.


• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance operational processes and implement best practices to minimize risk exposure.


• Test the design and effectiveness of controls.


• Manage the database of risks, issues and events and deliver effective reporting throughout the governance framework to enable senior management to effectively manage risk.


• Lead the implementation and monitor the governance of Operational Events based on regulation and best practices.


• Identify and assess operational risks within the organization.


• Oversee and implement the RCSA check and challenge reviews to ensure key risks and associated controls are correctly captured and assessed by first line teams.


• Review and analyse the quality and accuracy of risk issues and events captured within the business.


• Monitor the firm's KRI.


• Perform follow ups and action plans to ensure first line teams are closing issues and making improvements effectively.
  
  Ensure that evidence is available to validate their completion.


• Develop dashboards and reports to evaluate and explain internal control effectiveness.


• Conduct training sessions for employees on risk awareness and prevention.


• Support the maintenance of control libraries and narratives and flowcharts.


• Support the businesses continuity & operational resilience plans and policies.

• A highly competitive salary


• Wider Benefits package

Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.

Job reference: 15757

To apply for this vacancy applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

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