Assistant Manager - Risk

• Radical customer centricity
• Ownership-driven culture
• Keeping everything simple
• Long-term thinking
• Complete transparency

About the role

We are looking for high ownership, self motivated candidates with excellent analytical and problem solving skills with a proven track record of result oriented performance. As a risk manager you will be responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of the operational risk management framework across the organization. This role involves working closely with cross-functional teams, senior leadership, and external stakeholders to ensure effective risk identification, assessment, and mitigation strategies. The successful candidate will play a key role in shaping a robust risk culture within the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Perform risk identification and assessment across various functions and recommend process changes in order to mitigate operational risks.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Credit, Risk, Compliance, and Technology, to implement risk mitigation strategies'
• Monitor and analyze key risk indicators, providing regular reports to management and stakeholders.
• Conduct and orchestrate Monthly Risk Committee meetings provide insightful reports to senior management and key stakeholders.
• Examining reported incidents and validating the implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
• Coordinate with internal audit teams to ensure alignment between risk management and audit activities.
• Conduct root cause analysis (5 Whys, Fishbone etc) against the risk observations to identify corrective and preventive actions
• Conduct training sessions to promote risk awareness and adherence to risk management practices.

Requirement:

• Proven experience in operational risk management, preferably within the financial industry.
• In-depth knowledge of risk assessment methodologies, risk mitigation strategies, and regulatory requirements.
• Clear understanding of regulatory requirements
• Strong knowledge of auditing principles and procedures
• Good analytical and logical problem-solving skills with an aptitude to learn quickly
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively interact with senior leaders, cross-functional teams, and external stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail.
• High level of ownership

Qualification:

• 2-5 years of experience working in quality, audit and risk management domain
• Excellent Excel skills (knowledge of SQL will be an advantage).
• Knowledge of internal and external audit standards like ISO, CMMI, etc
• Strong organizational, communication, presentation, and project management skills
• Graduate, CA, MBA from a Tier 1 Institute preferred