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SalaryYou will be working with Governance and Risk manager to deliver on a broad range of initiatives and BAU activities that will help the alternatives business manage its risks and controls environment, reduce risk profile, improve the robustness and scalability of their operating model for future growth.
Some of your duties will include:
- Developing and maintaining close working relationships with the alternatives teams to drive, facilitate, challenge and be part of their delivery, to improve processes and reduce operational risk profile.
- Taking ownership of the Risk Map across alternatives and, working closely with the business to ensure that controls recorded in the risk management system to mitigate the risks are appropriate, proportionate, effective, and auditable.
- Ensuring each team in alternatives has ownership and awareness of their key risks and that they can identify key areas of potential errors and exposures, and that these are reviewed regularly.
- Ensuring errors/incidents/events are reviewed and remediating actions identified and managed through to completion and in accordance with agreed policy and procedures, including ensuring that risk events and issues are raised in a timely fashion and that actions are appropriate, proportionate, and effective.
- Assist the Governance and Risk manager on ad-hoc events or thematic reviews.
- Deputising the Governance and Risk manager in relevant governance forums and committees.
- Assist the Governance and Risk manager in producing MI packs.
- Working proactively with the Governance and Risk manager in supporting the overall risk culture within the business
- Strong academic background, preferably a professional certificate, e.g., IMC, IAQ, CFA.
- A professional qualification is desirable but not essential, e.g. accounting, Internal audit, Risk management or Compliance qualification.
- Awareness or exposure to Financial Services industry, understanding of risk and regulatory issues for financial services business.
- Extensive experience in Financial Services, ideally with alternative assets experience.
- Experience gained in an Internal Audit, Risk and/or Compliance position (desirable).
