Business Risk

Management Level

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ India began its operations in 2014 as a Global India Captive Centre for Equiniti, a leading fintech company specialising in shareholder management. Within a decade, EQ India strengthened its operations and transformed from being a capability centre to a Global Competency Centre, to support EQ's growth story worldwide.

EQ’s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Core Duties/Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

Responsible for risk identification, assessment, control evaluation/testing, reporting and communicating findings across multiple stakeholders.

Conduct comprehensive risk assessments based upon reviews of internal processes, systems, and controls.

Analyze various sources of information, identify trends and determine the potential impact and probability of risks to the business.

Articulating risk severity and working with the business to determine prioritized mitigating strategies to mitigate risk.

Determine the design and performance effectiveness of existing controls and identify control opportunities through monitoring and testing.

Work with the business to seek tactical and/or strategic solutions to improve control design and performance effectiveness and to reduce risk exposure.

Have an understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements for the business.

Monitor and analyze reported events and determine how they impact the risk environment within the business.

Uphold the Risk Management Policy, Handbook, and related procedures ensuring Group and BRC requirements are being met.

Preparing or producing reporting focussed on communicating risk and control performance, policy adherence, making recommendations to various levels of management, and presenting findings in a clear and concise manner.

Establishing and strengthening relationships in the business and acting as a trusted point of contact within the BRC team.

Grow knowledge of the business and product offering across Shareholder Services.

Question the status quo in order to identify issues and improvements Lead/undertake “read-across analysis” taken from internal and external audits or exams and relevant risk related findings across the business.

Lead/undertake reviews for existing and potentially new risks, and if deemed necessary, thematic deep dives of risk coverage and effectiveness across the division.

Support activity and engage across the 3 Lines of Defense.

Govern actions to ensure progression to plan and take suitable action to escalate where actions are not progressing, or activity is not sufficiently demonstrative as effective risk remediation.

Assesses evidence and challenge risk remediating actions to ensure risk mitigation activity completed as expected prior to closure.

Govern the risk system of record to ensure records meet business requirements.

Work closely with the broader BRC team.

Foster a positive risk and control culture and contribute to the growth of the business.

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills and behaviours:

5-10 years in the Finance industry and risk management, and an understanding of Shareholder Services preferred.

Risk Management experience is a must. Experience in specific risk types is a plus. E.g., Fraud, Data Protection, BCP, etc.)

Understanding of risk frameworks, including key concepts (RCSA, Risk Identification, Risk Appetite & Profiling, Risk Metrics/KRIs, etc).

Understanding of control frameworks, including control design, standards, testing and performance.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including capability to interpret data from various sources.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate to diverse recipients.

Strong stakeholder development and management skills

Ability to interact across the 3 Lines of Defense and other business functions.

Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver risk management activities to established timeframes and at a high standard.

Astute problem solver who can identify tactical or strategic solutions.

Proven ability to lead and facilitate risk review meetings while setting the benchmark of what “good looks like.”

Proficient in Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, PPT, etc) and familiar with Risk Management Information Systems.

Benefits:

Being a permanent member of the team at EQ you will be rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:

3 days of additional leaves on & above statutory requirement along with 2 days of voluntary leaves to pursue the CSR initiatives

Business related certification expense reimbursement

Comprehensive Medical Assurance coverage for dependents & Parents

Cab transport for staff working in UK & US shift

Accidental & Life cover 3 times of concerned CTC

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.