Market Abuse Risk & Controls Manager

NatWest Group; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading bank as a Market Abuse Risk & Controls Manager, where you'll play a critical role in risk assessment and management. Use your expertise to develop strategies and plans, working collaboratively with stakeholders to enhance the bank's risk culture. This position offers the opportunity to lead initiatives aimed at ensuring compliance and improving risk frameworks.

Qualifications

• Experience in applying risk and control management in an operational context.
• Strong knowledge of Market Abuse risk assessment methodologies.
• Knowledge of FX and FI products and markets.

Responsibilities

• Support management in identifying and assessing material risks.
• Drive the development and delivery of remedial action plans.
• Coach and support colleagues to embed a proactive risk culture.

Skills

Leadership

Risk Management

Communication

Influencing Stakeholders

Job description

Join us as a Market Abuse Risk & Controls Manager

• If you have a background in risk assessment, then join our team in helping to anticipate and assess the potential impacts of risk across the bank
• We’ll look to you to proactively drive the assessment and implementation of risk framework and policy compliance and changes, converting these into appropriate strategies and action plans
• In this highly collaborative role, you’ll have an ideal platform for building your network and advancing your career, while helping to create a safer environment for the bank

What you'll do

You’ll have responsibility for supporting management in their identification and assessment of material risks, and in determining their position relative to agreed appetites. Working with senior stakeholders across the organisation, you’ll look to drive forward the development and delivery of remedial action plans where identified risks are considered out of appetite.

On top of this, you’ll be supporting a culture of proactive and pre-emptive risk management and continuous improvement, and the attainment of operational risk objectives.

You’ll also be:

• Coaching and supporting colleagues across the bank to improve understanding and embed a proactive risk culture
• Analysing risk reporting and metrics used to inform decision making
• Educating teams on the operational risk framework and our conduct risk obligations, supporting the business in operating and embedding them
• Supporting and regularly engaging with relevant stakeholders including second and third line of defence, and risk teams
• Ensuring internal and external stakeholder satisfaction by delivering risk and control actions in a timely manner

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to be a highly skilled leader with experience of applying risk and control management in an operational and strategic context. You’ll also need excellent communication skills in order to lead the team, as well as being able to negotiate with, and influence, stakeholders across an organisation.

You’ll also bring:

• Strong knowledge of Market Abuse risk assessment and scenario analysis methodologies
• Knowledge of FX and FI products and markets
• Significant business risk management