Operational Risk Oversight Consultant

4 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom 1825 Full time

Job Description

At abrdn, our purpose is to enable our clients to be better investors.

Clients worldwide trust us to find future-fit investment opportunities to deliver the outcomes they want. Our technology and insight help empower them to make better decisions, while the powerful partnerships we build help to enhance the expertise that we offer. And by enabling clients to invest responsibly, it helps us to build a better world.

We have a great opportunity for an Operational Risk Oversight Consultant (Central Functions) to join our Risk and Compliance team. This is a permanent role that can be based in Edinburgh or London.

About the Department

The Operational Risk Oversight (Central Functions) Team currently comprises of 5 people and sits within the Enterprise Risk department which is a central part of the wider Risk & Compliance division. Enterprise Risk includes a number of teams covering areas including: Internal Capital Adequacy and Risk Assessment, risk system and data analytics, risk reporting, conduct, mandatory training, data privacy, compliance oversight and risk business partnering for abrdn’s key central functions.

About the Role
- Providing oversight, challenge and advice, to ensure the Enterprise Risk Management Framework is embedded and operating effectively in relation to the central functions
- Creating and maintaining effective relationships with business and functional partners, providing value adding oversight, education and support on the use of the operational risk framework, tools and processes and reporting and advising areas of non-compliance
- Supporting the wider team in ensuring that where issues are identified appropriate mitigating actions are implemented by the business and tracked through to completion.
- Providing broad operational assistance in relation to the production of team outputs, including the production of specialist oversight reports.
- Supporting the production of relevant management information.
- Supporting the independent views on risk reporting to the Chief Risk Officer, Executive and Boards; providing an articulate and informed view of the risk profile and opinion on how risks are being identified, mitigated and supervised
- Work collaboratively with colleagues to build and maintain and effective control environment for business areas, providing guidance and support, alongside constructive challenge.
- Supporting the wider Risk & Compliance function in the delivery of functional activities where required.
- Operational Risk qualification/certification desired
- Partner management and interpersonal skills are a core capability recognising that the role requires building relationships and trust, with ability to influence and deliver in a proactive and collaborative manner
- Ability to demonstrate intellectual curiosity to understand and surface insights that helps strengthen risk management efficiency and provides insight and opinion
- Communication skills to articulate and convey key messages (written and verbal) with quality and impact for Risk and Control meetings, as well as supporting reporting for Committee/Executive/Board level audiences
- Outcome focused and with strong ability to facilitate collaborative working within and across teams
- Practical knowledge of operational risk management framework components desired, i.e. risk identification and assessment processes, risk event and issues management, scenario development and assessment
- Practical knowledge of Operational Risk Management systems
- Personal resilience and confidence to effectively challenge and hold others to account.
- Highly analytical with strong problem solving skills.
- Desirable for experience of one or more of finance, HR, Corporate Responsibility or legal
- An understanding of abrdn and its strategic goals preferred

Our benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits - including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas - our vectors of growth - focused on our clients’ changing needs.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.

At abrdn we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.
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