Global Banking & Markets Operations - Operational Risk - Vice President - Bengaluru

GLOBAL BANKING & MARKETS
We make markets in and clear client transactions on major stock, options and futures exchanges worldwide. Through our global sales force, we maintain relationships with our clients, receiving orders and distributing investment research, trading ideas, market information and analysis.

OPERATIONS
Operations is a dynamic, multi-faceted function that partners with all parts of the firm to provide banking, securities, and asset management services to clients around the world. In addition, Operations provides essential risk management and controls to preserve and enhance the firm's assets and its reputation. For every new product launched and every trade executed, it is Operations that develops and manages the processes and controls that enable business flow.

• Advise, challenges, informs the line teams on recommended ways to mitigate risk; reviews actions items to ensure that risk is being sufficiently addressed
• Acts as a culture carrier by embedding in the team or region; propagates a risk mind-set and awareness of Operational Risk amongst staff
• Identifies ways to share risk best practice across teams and functions, and with other business lines where like processes exist/there is exposure to similar risk
• Run regular risk meetings to review exception landscape across your business units, ask probing questions to establish potential market, client, and other risks which may be contained within our workflows
• Be comfortable leading co-ordination across teams during market events to manage information exchange and triage emerging risk
• Challenge the status quo - challenge the risk and control framework to further enhance the control environment. Work outside business unit and Divisional boundaries to manage and improve the risk profile commercially
• Partner with the business lines to understand the residual risks that exist after issues are resolved and engage across the front to back to apply lessons learned to improve our risk and control framework
• Risk Analysis - work with regional and functional Front Office, Operations and Engineering groups to develop key risk indicators which can be used to monitor operational risk. Use these to drive the risk agenda with the leadership group, highlight areas of concerns and partner with line managers to develop, execute and monitor progress on remediation plans.
• Risk & Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) - work with business units in ensuring the quarterly RCSA risk and control review accurately reflects the current risk and control environment and quality of operational controls. During these reviews, define thematic RCSA issues to help structure remediation plans regarding significant open risks or control deficiencies.

• Strong leadership skills with experience managing a team.
• Strong control mindset with a passion for risk management
• Excellent communication skills to clearly articulate issues and ideas with different levels across Global Banking and Markets stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills with an ability to understand complex workflows, and excellent attention to details.
• Innovative, including a keen eye for identifying areas of control enhancements and automation which have practical value. Good influencing skills to challenging the status quo and continuously enhance the control environment. There is also opportunity within the role to learn and apply advanced analytics software to develop low code risk management solutions.
• Ability to perform data analytics using metrics to identify trends and themes.
• Sound time management skills to be able to effectively prioritize and multi-task.
• Drive and motivation to improve personal performance, broaden knowledge, work intensely towards extremely challenging goals and persist in the face of obstacles or setbacks
• Good interpersonal and teamwork skills to collaborate as a global team and build strong relationship with key stakeholders across Divisions.
• Keeps current with emerging business, economic and market trends

• Solid knowledge & experience in the Financial Industry.
• Practical experience in Sales and Trading, Risk or Operations functions.
• Business Intelligence / Data Analytic skills