Northam Enterprise and Operational Risk Lead

We're looking for a Risk Lead to manage the Northam Enterprise and Operational Risk Management team, and drive the implementation and day-to-day management of our Enterprise and Operational risk management frameworks across our US and Canada entities. This role is responsible for driving the control mapping exercise, the design and implementation of control monitoring, risk appetite statements, and KRIs. This role will also drive the issue management process, ensuring a culture of proactive self identification and accountability for the remediation of issues. Another important part of this role is to help our Product Managers launch new products faster and safely by identifying the key risks and helping build scalable controls.

What will you do?

• Manage, coach and mentor a team of four risk management professionals.
• Manage, partner, and influence senior regional stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Operations, Banking and Compliance to embed the risk function and risk management program.
• Lead the implementation and ongoing management of our Enterprise and Operational Risk Management frameworks across the US and Canada entities, including ensuring compliance with relevant regulations, embedding of the risk and control self assessment process, and issues management.
• Conduct in-depth reviews to identify risks and complete control mapping across our most material processes, and help design scalable controls and a control monitoring & testing program.
• Lead the development and implementation of risk appetite statements, risk tolerance thresholds, and key risk indicators, and work with data analysts and Product managers to create monitoring dashboards.
• Support first line teams in documenting, solutioning, and prioritising control gaps.
• Ongoing oversight of issue remediation activities, including regulatory remediation, using our risk management tool (Audit Board) to ensure appropriate risk focused prioritisation, and help validate closure of remediated issues, including advising on the risk acceptance of issues where appropriate.
• Analysing incidents and producing actionable insights.
• Partnering with ‘first line’ teams across the business to support the launch of new products by ensuring that key risks are identified and mitigated with the right balance of pre-launch and post-launch checks with a focus on ensuring we can continue to ship quality products at pace.
• 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 boards.
• Promoting and helping embed a proactive risk culture, making risk meaningful and relevant to everyone at Wise.