Wise

Finance / FinServ

SeniorRiskManager

austin, texas, united states FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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optimal for mid candidates.

The Brief

“Senior Risk Manager at Wise. Skills: Enterprise risk management framework, Operational risk management, Financial risk management, Risk assessment, Control design and implementation, Risk reporting. Support and contribute to the ongoing design and implementation and day-to-day management of our enterprise risk management framework. Focus on Operational risks”

What You'll Achieve.

Ensure key risks are identified and mitigated prior to launch; Ensure appropriate risk focused prioritisation of issue remediation; Help set risk tolerance thresholds; Identify actionable insights

Industry & Context.

Finance / FinServ
Problems you'll solve

Solutioning control gaps; Identifying actionable insights

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Enterprise risk management framework, Operational risks, Financial risk management, Risk incidents, Audit and self identified issues, Control remediation, New product initiatives, Risk identification, Scalable controls, Control monitoring program, Risk and control self assessment process, Risk incident post mortems, Issues management, Design and launch of new products and features, Operational risk events and issues, Control gaps, Issue remediation activities, Risk management tool (Audit Board), Risk focused prioritisation, Material risks, Scalable control monitoring programs, Risk policies, Risk procedures, Key risk indicators, Risk appetite statements, Dashboards using data analytics tools, Risk tolerance thresholds, Actionable insights, Quarterly residual risk assessment process, Risk taxonomy, Loss and incident reporting, Regional risk profile, Risk culture

Nice to Have

Financial risk management as an additional secondary area of focus

What You'll Do.

Support and contribute to the ongoing design and implementation and day-to-day management of our enterprise risk management framework

Focus on Operational risks

Financial risk management as an additional secondary area of focus

Provide guidance on risk incidents

audit and self identified issues

control remediation and new product initiatives

Identify the right risks and design effective scalable controls

Implement and operate our enterprise risk framework

Focus on Operational risk

Help set up our Financial and Prudential risk frameworks

Embed the risk and control self assessment process

risk incident post mortems and issues management

Partner with ‘first line’ teams across the business to support the design and launch of new products and features by ensuring that key risks are identified and mitigated prior to launch

Manage and follow up on operational risk events and issues that occur

Support first line teams in documenting

and prioritising control gaps

Ongoing oversight of issue remediation activities using our risk management tool (Audit Board) to ensure appropriate risk focused prioritisation

and help validate closure of remediated issues

Conduct in-depth reviews

risk assessments and control mapping across our most material risks

Help design scalable control monitoring programs

Support the development and implementation of risk policies

and risk appetite statements

Support and drive the creation of dashboards using data analytics tools to report on key risk indicators in order to help set risk tolerance thresholds and identify actionable insights

Coordinate the quarterly residual risk assessment process across the risk taxonomy

including loss and incident reporting

to inform our regional risk profile for reporting to local and global risk committees

and to our local board

Promote and help embed a proactive risk culture

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partnering with ‘first line’ teams across the business to support the design and launch of new products and features

Full Job Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed. Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money. As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere. More about [our mission](https://wise.jobs/our-mission) and [what we offer](https://wise.jobs/what-we-offer). The Role We're looking for a Senior Risk Manager to support and contribute to the ongoing design and implementation and day-to-day management of our enterprise risk management framework, with a particular focus on Operational risks, and with Financial risk management as an additional secondary area of focus. This role will provide guidance on risk incidents, audit and self identified issues, control remediation and new product initiatives. We need to make sure we're identifying the right risks and design effective scalable controls, including a comprehensive control monitoring program. What will you be doing? * Supporting the implementation and operation of our enterprise risk framework, with a particular focus on Operational risk as well as helping set up our Financial and Prudential risk frameworks, including embedding of the risk and control self assessment process, risk incident post mortems and issues management. * Partnering with ‘first line’ teams across the business to support the design and launch of new products and features by ensuring that key risks are identified and mitigated prior to launch. * Managing and following up on operational risk events and issues that occur. * Support first line teams in documenting, solutioning, and prioritising control gaps. * Ongoing oversight of issue remediation activities using our risk management tool (Audit Board) to ensure appropriate risk focused prioritisation

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