Risk Manager Job Description
Risk manager
provides timely regulatory advice to ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations, and support proactive and preemptive risk mitigation.
Risk Manager Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective risk manager job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included risk manager job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Liaise with Portfolio Management, Product Development and other relevant teams in regard to all risk related issues
Drives accountability by using risk management tools, processes, methods healthy tension to ensure that the business meets its risk requirements
Undertake monthly visits to visit the project team and address crucial project issues
Analyse and respond to project risk, issues and opportunities in order to maximise the results of positive events, and minimise the consequences of adverse events
Regularly report on key risk and mitigation measures to different audiences
Develop, review and implement risk management plan addressing specific needs of the project
Facilitate risk management workshops in order to identify risks, conduct qualitative assessments, determine top project risks, mitigation measures and risk owners
Conduct Monti Carlo analysis on high risk items
Regularly monitor, manage and update project risk registers throughout the project life cycle
Risk evaluation
Risk Manager Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Risk Manager
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CISM, CISSP, CRISC, BLS, CPR, PMP, CISA, ARM, CAMS, CGA
Education for Risk Manager
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the risk manager job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Management, Business, Public Administration, Finance, Nursing, Healthcare, Engineering, Education, Economics, Business/Administration
Skills for Risk Manager
Desired skills for risk manager include:
Excel and PowerPoint
Regulatory compliance to consult and provide insight and guidance
Regulations and regulatory expectations
Regulatory requirements
Specific area of compliance laws
Regulations
Compliance laws
Competitive/regulatory landscape and the company's key challenges
Relevant industry regulations and regulatory compliance in a specific area
Key processes
Desired experience for risk manager includes:
Proven high-level ability to negotiate, challenge and influence
Strong capability to build a quantitative risk capability including effective metrics and reporting
FRM Preferred
Risk experience strongly preferred, ideally in Stress Testing good financial markets knowledge, products, markets
Act as the Key Liaison between Corporate Third Party Oversight and IT Risk Management Teams
MSc in mathematics, computer science or financial engineering, or Msc in quantitative finance
Risk Manager Examples
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Risk Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of risk manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for risk manager
- Generates business unit level Key Risk Indicator (“KRI”) risk dashboard reporting and actively monitors breaches
- Ensure adherence to Technology Risk governance including IS security policies and standards
- Perform SOX control validations
- Perform TECH risk remediation through numerous partner organizations
- Ensure 'Always Audit Ready' and support internal business process and Technology audits, Service Bureau and external audits and exams
- Identify and continuously improve internal Tech Risk processes
- Partner with GOSCE to shape and execute SSE Russia grain supply chain strategy to ensure uninterrupted pipeline at best possible cost
- Monitor Portfolio Trends (Business Risk Rating, Delinquencies & Non-Accrual Loans, Watchlist
- Stay abreast of Credit Administration & Compliance Trends (Expired Credits, Out of Order Margins/Covenants/Early Warning Signs/Reporting and Security) through enquiry of business partners, recommend course of action on specific accounts and assist business partners with action to correct any unsatisfactory situations
- Represent the Bank and Risk Management in marketplace including client visits where appropriate
Qualifications for risk manager
- Knowledge of other credit risk models such as BASEI III Capital framework, credit risk parameters (PD,LGD,EAD), stress testing methodologies, CreditMetrics framework and Moody’s Analytics|KMV Risk Frontier
- Proficiency with VBA, Matlab, SAS and SQL is preferred
- Experience in wholesale or commercial lending and familiar with relevant products
- Motivation to take active ownership of one’s professional and personal development
- Be comfortable engaging directly with senior executive stakeholders & technology vendors
- Prior experience with Digital Channels, risk and control functions or audit is an asset
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is hiring for a risk manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for risk manager
- Interact with business counterparts and other IT colleagues to ensure appropriate coverage of shared controls and/or shared processes
- Proactively engage team members and project leads to ensure system changes or enhancements consider Audit controls and IT standards before implementation
- Review and verify governance documents and procedures for accuracy and effectiveness
- Create and disseminate reporting and metrics related to the risk environment to key stakeholders
- Point of contact for compliance and audit engagements
- Oversees the collection, compilation, analysis and presentation of evidence based measure data as assigned
- Prepares and presents requested reports regarding findings and outcomes of measures
- Maintains and generates monthly best practice reports
- Distributes Service Quality Index scores appropriately
- Facilitates a team-oriented approach to process improvement and problem solving
Qualifications for risk manager
- Demonstrate ability to effectively communicate technical issues to clients whether internal or external
- Ensure you are up to date with engagement risk management processes
- Develop performance management skills by serving as a performance manager for Consultant, Associate Consultants and Senior Consultant, actively managing the development of all appraisees
- Manage pool of Associate Consultant, Consultants and Senior Consultant to execute engagement on timely basis
- Prepare budget for an engagement/project and monitor performance against budget
- Actively manage client accounts
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Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of risk manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for risk manager
- Adheres to concepts of continuous quality improvement at all times and encourages all staff to utilize the tools learned in local training sessions
- Schedules training sessions in continuous quality improvement for new employees
- Maintains and implements a variance reporting system for the center
- Receives and reviews all variances generated by personnel at the center
- Investigates and analyzes all variances
- Follows up on all variances until situation is resolved
- Reports significant variances until situation is resolved
- Follows up and maintains appropriate reporting and documentation of employee exposures to blood borne pathogens
- Functions as the center’s Infection Control Nurse, if required
- Coordinates distribution of Infection Control/Complication queries to all surgeons on a monthly basis
Qualifications for risk manager
- Proficient in relevant programming languages such as C/C++ and VBA is required
- Industry experience (with at least 2-3 years of experience) in model development or validation within a similar role is required
- Excellent ability to write comprehensive technical documents is required
- Solid quantitative finance knowledge associated with excellent understanding of derivative products, the valuation and risk management methodologies
- Solid understanding of pricing theory, stochastic calculus and numerical techniques used in derivative pricing (PDE/trees, Monte Carlo simulation, optimization)
- Strong computational and programming knowledge in C++ and VBA
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of risk manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for risk manager
- Evaluates patient and/or family complaints/grievances in conjunction with Administrator/Center’s Managers and assesses risk to center and ensures appropriate responses, per center’s policy and procedure
- Coordinates and oversees center compliance with Safe Medical Device reporting and tracking
- Identify business risk (including financial crime risk) in conjunction with the business and consider and implement solutions to minimise risk or impact of risk
- Ensure that the effective operation of risk management can be evidenced and provide confidence to internal and external stakeholders
- Provide education and training to staff to strengthen risk awareness and develop a risk based culture
- Assess, in conjunction with colleagues and divisional compliance teams, changes in the regulatory environment and impact on the business
- Nominated Officer with responsibility for SAR, enhanced AML training and oversight of AML policy implementation
- Ensuring compliance with sanctions regime
- Provide independent detailed and ongoing reviews and comprehensive maintenance of Professional Services Risk Registers and Dashboards
- Delivery of monthly risk dashboards to Professional Services risk committee
Qualifications for risk manager
- Proficient in relevant programming languages such as Matlab and SAS
- To ensure material emerging and top risks are identified, discussed and escalated if necessary within the EMEA and Global Governance Frameworks through to the other Senior Risk Managers
- Knowledge of of the following investment areas (Foreign Exchange, Capital Markets, Global Custody, Internal Control, Operations, Security Lending, Collateral Management)
- Detailed knowledge of program management/scheduling tools and techniques is preferred (Microsoft® Project, Primavera Project Planner ®, wInsight®, ACEIT )
- Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience as required for specific job level and may be required to hold certification or equivalent in area managed
- Requires strong management skills, strong organizational, team building, coaching and mentoring skills
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of risk manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for risk manager
- Corporate governance involving external risk reporting to stakeholders
- Identify project risks, including
- Develop detailed plans of action for project risk reduction confirming desirability and objectives
- Have experience in modelling credit portfolios, with an ability to apply different modelling techniques and use of analytical tools such as SAS/VBA
- Have a passion for researching new ways to solve complex problems that deliver valuable insight and business benefit
- Have experience coaching, mentoring and developing junior analysts
- Have good written, verbal and influencing skills, including presentations for technical and non-technical audiences
- Be able to deal with conflicting demands, prioritise deliverables and to respond to business needs in a constantly changing environment
- A strong degree in a quantitative discipline Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Physics or related field
- Reports his findings and solutions to immediate issues, plans for potential future issues or emergencies, to hospital management
Qualifications for risk manager
- Subject matter expert knowledge and significant experience in risk management techniques
- 2+ years’ work experience with data warehouse project exposures
- Can be self-leading and is capable of managing an analysis from end to end including identifying a problem, proposing hypothesis and finding solutions
- Ability to successfully pass a United Status Minimum Background Investigation (MBI)
- Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration or Engineering or equivalent
- Minimum of 12 years relevant experience in quality management working in the oil and gas industry or related Process Industries