An Operational Risk professional is responsible for identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating risks arising from people, processes, systems, and external events to ensure smooth business operations and regulatory compliance.
Qualifications & Experience
Experience: 5–7 years
Key Responsibilities
- Identify operational risks across business functions , Conduct Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSA), Maintain and Amend Operational Risk Register
- Designing and reviewing of internal control for minimizing operational risks.
- Continuous monitoring of preventive and detective controls.
- Recommend control improvements.
- Record and analyse operational loss events and conduct root cause analysis
- Develop and monitor KRIs and amend KRI’s with consultation of Business Units. Escalate breaches of risk appetite thresholds.
- Provide early warning signals to management.
- Business Continuity & Resilience
- Oversee Business Continuity Planning (BCP) for Business Units and Material Outsourced Vendors
- Technology & Cyber Risk Oversight
- Work closely with Technology Team to ensure Operational Risk Events do not occur due to failure of Technology & Digital Processes.
- Monitor third-party and outsourcing risks.
- Regulatory Compliance
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and support regulatory inspections and audits.
- Liquidity Risk / Market Risk
- Exposure & understanding of monitoring Liquidity Risk like liquidity position, funding concentration, LCR, asset liability mismatch, contingency funding plan, stock ratios etc.
- Monitoring market risk on trading book like PV01, 1 day VAR at 95% / 99% confidence level, investment in G-sec and Equity.
- Outsourcing Risk / People / Technology risk
- Understanding the different risk arising in Outsourcing / HR / Technology function and continuous monitoring of the same including cyber risk, technology risk, people risk and developing risk registers for the same.
- Risk assessment and analysis
- Regulatory and compliance knowledge
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills