Senior Risk & Continuity Specialist

EDGE; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family visas

Annual flight tickets

Medical insurance for you and your dep

Education allowances for your children

Job summary

EDGE is a UAE-based leading technology group, seeking a Senior Specialist to implement and enhance Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Business Continuity Management (BCM) programs. The role focuses on entity-level risk assessments, reporting, and advisory to drive risk maturity across assigned entities.

You will collaborate with Risk Champions, facilitate risk workshops, and deliver tailored risk reports to senior leadership, while strengthening resilience and continuity capabilities across

Qualifications

• Strong analytical, reporting and presentation skills.
• Experience engaging with senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Experience conducting risk assessments and facilitating risk workshops.
• Understanding of risk management and business continuity concepts.

Responsibilities

• Drive the identification, communication, measurement and management of Group-wide risks.
• Proactively work with Risk Champions to monitor & report risks, drive risk assessment and analysis to support informed decision making and enhance risk informed execution.
• Facilitate key risk management workshops, reviews, and assessments with key stakeholders, to identify key risk indicators and to ensure their regular monitoring.
• Prepare risk reporting tailored to different stakeholders, including reporting of top strategical risks at Group level (including committee meetings).
• Ensure that a comprehensive and continuous risk identification process is in place.
• Monitor the application and effectiveness of risk management processes.
• Conduct trend analysis and emerging risk identification.
• Provide coaching and capacity building for entity risk champions.
• Identify and assess business continuity, operational resilience, and disruption-related risks.
• Recommend appropriate mitigation and resilience measures to reduce business disruption risks.
• Support in Developing and maintain the organization’s Business Continuity Management framework, policies, standards, and procedures.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Risk assessment

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Risk Management / related discipline

Job description

EDGE is a UAE-based leading technology group, seeking a Senior Specialist to implement and enhance Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Business Continuity Management (BCM) programs. The role focuses on entity-level risk assessments, reporting, and advisory to drive risk maturity across assigned entities.

You will collaborate with Risk Champions, facilitate risk workshops, and deliver tailored risk reports to senior leadership, while strengthening resilience and continuity capabilities across