Risk & Controls Associate

Risk & Controls Associate (Pricing Oversight)

Join us as a Risk & Controls Analyst, Transaction Pricing and oversight

• If you're looking for a new challenge, where you can play a key role in preventing potential risks to our customers, this could be the ideal role for you
• You'll work in partnership with the first line of defence and businesses in applying effective risk management, and anticipating and assessing the potential impacts of risk across the bank
• By liaising closely with a range of stakeholders, you'll have an opportunity to raise your profile across the bank as well as a strong focus on personal development
• We're offering this role at associate level

You'll play a key role in delivering risk management initiatives that support the effective application of the operational risk framework and conduct risk obligations, with an opportunity to improve the understanding and effective management of risk across the bank. You'll drive the assessment and implementation of risk framework and policy compliance or changes, converting these into appropriate strategies and action plans with respect to the bank's pricing of financial products offered to corporates, banks and other financial entities.

We'll look to you to support the business in managing the risks which exist, making sure mechanisms are in place to identify, report, manage and mitigate risk within a defined risk appetite, working in conjunction with the second line of defence. You'll support change initiatives across the business, ensuring upstream risks and support the assessment of the impact of regulation changes, developing and delivering appropriate strategies and action plans to comply.

Day-to-day, you'll:

• Develop and support the interrogation and analysis of relevant management information, supporting effective risk management for your stakeholders
• Control resources that contribute to the development of guidance notes and training material and content, upskilling the broader first line of defence function and businesses
• Build and maintain trusted working partnerships across the bank and our franchises, to inform and gather intelligence on emerging and future risks and controls
• Deliver, evidence and continually improve a high level of assurance in the bank's pricing methodologies and level
• Responsible for the analysis of risk reporting and metrics used to inform decision making
• Support and regularly engage with relevant stakeholders including second and third line of defence, and risk teams and deliver actions in a timely manner
• Initiate and support thematic exploration, deep dives, read across and oversight of the risk profile linked to control and conduct failures and operational events
• Educate teams on the operational risk framework and our conduct risk obligations, supporting the business in operating and embedding them

To be successful in this role, you'll demonstrate knowledge of how a large financial services organisation operates and bring experience of working in a first or second line of defence risk role.

You'll also bring:

• A clear track record of achievement and delivery in applying risk and control management in an operational and strategic context
• Knowledge of risk assessment and scenario analysis methodologies
• Knowledge of operational risk management
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal and the ability to influence at all levels
• Proficiency in MS-Excel and demonstrable mathematical understanding of linear and interest rate derivatives, bonds and repos, forwards and spot FX

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