Embedded Risk Associate Director

The Impact you will have in this role:

As an Embedded Risk Manager (IC Role), you will strengthen the first line of defense by embedding risk-aware and AI-enabled decision-making into business operations. You will proactively challenge and guide product and business teams in identifying, assessing, responding to, and monitoring risks.

This role emphasizes forward-looking risk management, leveraging data, automation, and emerging technologies (including AI/ML insights) to enhance risk visibility and control effectiveness.

You will play a key role in ensuring adherence to:

• Control Testing Frameworks
• Issue Management lifecycle
• Regulatory and audit expectations

You will partner with leadership to design sustainable, technology-enabled risk mitigation strategies.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

Incident & Risk Management

• Support incident management with timely notifications to Compliance and leadership
• Conduct root cause analysis using structured and data-driven approaches
• Identify patterns and recommend predictive/preventive controls leveraging AI insights where possible
• Document lessons learned and drive sustainable remediation

Issue & Action Plan Governance

• Manage end-to-end lifecycle of issues and action plans (MSIs)
• Ensure remediation actions are effective, measurable, and sustainable
• Review and challenge issue quality before Archer submission
• Ensure alignment with internal risk frameworks and regulatory expectations

Risk Monitoring & Reporting

• Monitor monthly issues & actions reports and identify gaps in self-identified vs audit-detected issues
• Build and leverage data-driven dashboards and insights for proactive risk identification
• Assist in preparing high-quality board and executive risk materials

Sustainability & Control Effectiveness

• Execute annual sustainability reviews for internal and external action plans
• Validate long-term effectiveness of controls and remediation efforts
• Apply continuous improvement and AI-supported analytics to strengthen governance

Risk Culture & Stakeholder Management

• Act as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders
• Challenge assumptions and drive a strong risk-aware culture
• Establish escalation protocols for at-risk or delayed remediation items

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:

Core Expertise

• Strong experience in Risk Management & Incident Management
• Proven ability in stakeholder management and influencing senior leadership
• Experience with issue lifecycle management, audits, and control frameworks

AI & Digital Mindset (Key Differentiator)

• Strong inclination toward AI-driven risk insights, automation, and data-led decision-making
• Ability to leverage data for trend analysis, predictive risk identification, and reporting optimization
• Familiarity with emerging technologies in financial services risk landscape

Preferred (Nice-to-Have)

• Exposure to Tokenization and digital asset ecosystems
• Working knowledge of Python for data analysis, automation, or reporting enhancements
• Understanding of DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) and regulatory expectations

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-213209

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2026-04-11T19:54:58