Assistant General Manager, Operational Risk Management (Risk Management)

Job Purpose

The job holder is responsible to lead the team to address and mitigate operational in response to regulatory requirement and the environment. The jobholder is also responsible for driving and promoting and the continuous enhancement of the Bank’s operational risk management and internal controls.

Key Responsibilities

1. Responsible for the 2nd line of defense in operational risk related matters under 3 lines of defense model.
2. Plan and lead operational risk projects, leveraging people, technology, data, business processes, and controls to address the bank’s operational risks and drive business performance.
3. Manage the process for setting the operational risk appetite, develop and maintain effective bank-wide operational risk related policies, guidelines and tools in line with regulatory requirements and/ or industrial best practices.
4. Develop and implement effective operational risk management tools, including Risk & Controls Self-Assessments (RCSA), KRI Reporting and Incidents Reporting System (IRS), with proper communication to relevant businesses / functions to facilitate an effective management of operational risk.
5. Maintain oversight and monitoring of the operational risk management system and the quality of the generated operational loss data.
6. Assist in supporting the risk committee meetings in its overall operational risk oversight of the Bank.
7. Maintain oversight of the operational risk consultancy and advisory service provided by the team.
8. Execute operational risk monitoring duties and escalate incidents and operational risk events to senior management.
9. Perform both qualitative and quantitative monitoring and reporting of the Bank’s exposure to all types of operational risk (including climate related risk), including trend analysis of operational risk profiles and review of the limits of operational risk regulatory and economic capital.
10. Support the Bank’s Risk Stress Testing program. Establish and oversee minimum requirements for stress testing, scenario analysis, and measurement of operational risk.
11. Conduct operational risk scenario analysis by working with BU/SUs, subject matter experts and stakeholders to develop and quantify scenarios measuring tail risks used for stress testing and identify potential material exposure to operational losses on an on-going basis.
12. Promote and maintain a risk culture that encourages an informed, measured, disciplined and balanced approach to understanding and managing business process risk and controls.

Requirements

1. Bachelor degree holder in Finance, Accounting, Risk Management or related disciplines.
2. Holder of ECF-ORM qualification will be an advantage.
3. At least 10-12 years' experience in audit, internal control, operational risk management, technology risk management or information security management in financial institution, with at least 2-4 years’ in managerial level
4. Experience in leading programmes to enhance operational risk management frameworks, and developing & reviewing robust controls frameworks to support the operational resilience strategy.
5. Knowledge in the risk prevention and control monitoring in financial institutions.
6. Self-motivated, detail-minded, organized and able to work independently.
7. Good PC, communication and interpersonal skills.
8. Good command of written and spoken English and Chinese (including Putonghua).

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China CITIC Bank International is committed to being an equal opportunities employer and intends to provide a work environment free of unlawful discrimination or harassment. All employment decisions will be made in a non-discriminatory manner.