Senior Operational Risk Advisor — Hybrid & Global Risk

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

Brown Brothers Harriman in Kraków is seeking a Senior Operational Risk Advisor within the Enterprise Risk Management function. The role focuses on identifying, assessing and mitigating operational risks across Investor Services, with exposure to global control functions.

The successful candidate will support risk management across products and services, promoting awareness and providing analyses to leadership while collaborating with Internal Audit, Legal and Compliance teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or related discipline or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in the funds industry.
• Experience in risk management or operational activities of Fund Accounting / Alternative Funds or SOC1 controls assurance is a distinct advantage.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and Polish language including presentation skills.
• Strong interpersonal, collaboration and problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivation with ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, while meeting deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Act as a warning signal to management in relation to business activities to ensure they remain in line with BBH’s stated risk appetite.
• Support product division leaders in their proactive identification, measurement, management and monitoring of risk within the InServ line of business.
• Promote a culture of risk awareness, transparency and escalation through formal and informal training and awareness initiatives.
• Participate in forums designed to assess products and services to ensure all identified risks have been appropriately defined, adequate mitigating controls have been implemented, and all residual risks have been acknowledged and documented.
• Drive risk transparency by identifying, assessing and escalating trends, control weaknesses and risk and support the development of sustainable solutions for the management of risk.
• Actively seek to perform and communicate targeted risk & control reviews of operational processes and workflows.
• Monitor/Track corrective action plans, analyze trends and assess root causes of audit/regulatory findings, risk and control self-assessment gaps and risk events.
• Leverage existing risk management tools, such as the Firmwide Risk Event Database (FRED) and Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) database to assist in analysis of risk and control data.
• Provide support and insights on industry best practice to initiatives impacting Investor Services.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Bilingual EN/PL

Interpersonal skills

Problem solving

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance

Tools

FRED

RCSA

Job description

Brown Brothers Harriman in Kraków is seeking a Senior Operational Risk Advisor within the Enterprise Risk Management function. The role focuses on identifying, assessing and mitigating operational risks across Investor Services, with exposure to global control functions.

The successful candidate will support risk management across products and services, promoting awareness and providing analyses to leadership while collaborating with Internal Audit, Legal and Compliance teams.