Embedded Risk Associate Director

Job Description

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits
• Pension
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The Impact you will have in this role:

The Embedded Risk Manager strengthens the role of the first line of defense by challenging product management and general management of risks, including its effort to identify, assess, respond to, and report and monitor risks. In this role, the Risk Manager challenges management's assessment of internal control effectiveness by ensuring management's adherence to Control testing framework, Issue management framework (including self-identified issues), and Identified issues resulting from audits or regulatory exams, and partners with management on risk response strategies (mitigate, control, accept, remediate, etc.) to ensure the strategies sufficiently address identified risks, whether internal or external.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Support the business in Incident Management by providing initial notifications to Compliance and the General Manager, as well as conducting root cause analysis, sharing lessons learned, and outlining remediation steps. An understanding of DORA is a plus.
• Assist in producing board materials.
• Issue and Action Plan life cycle management (i.e. Engagement on the creation of MSIs, ensure actions plans effectively remediate issue, monitor timely remediation progress, and review of issue and action remediation before Archer7 submission, and oversight of the closure process for sustainability.
• Monitor the monthly Solutions Issues and Action Report (i.e. MSI Archer requirement) and assess issues resulting from Audits to determine if they should have been self-identified.
• Execute the Annual Sustainability reviews for both internal (direct/indirect) and external sourced action plans
• Supervise the timeliness of all Solutions Business Management Issues and Actions and establish escalation protocol for items at risk for being past due
• Perform review, challenge, and ensure consistent workflow quality control of issues both self-identified, as well as those resulting from risk assessments (include lessons learned and scenario analysis), and risk incidents.

NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Risk Management and Incident Management experience preferred
• Strong stakeholder management experience

We offer top class training and development for you to be an asset in our organization!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About Us

With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC's subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC's Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn , X , YouTube , Facebook and Instagram .

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.

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About the Team

Clearing & Securities Services group delivers world-class safety and soundness for the global financial services industry. The team provides DTCC's portfolio of core securities business, including Institutional Trade processing and First Line Resilience and Control to facilitate better end-to-end planning and prioritization as well as enable more coordinated and seamless delivery of capabilities and services for our clients.

Client-provided location(s): London, United Kingdom

Job ID: DTCC-212728

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-02-18T19:32:40