Business Risk Lead - Enterprise Risk

Kelly; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kelly in Irving, TX seeks an experienced Business Risk Analyst for a contract role expected to extend beyond 12 months. The position offers a hybrid schedule with three days onsite per week in Irving and a focus on Country Risk, CFR processes, and governance oversight.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years in risk analytics within global financial institutions, strong Excel skills, and the ability to coordinate across multiple teams to deliver executive-level governance materials.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of BA experience in risk at top-tier global financial institutions.
• Understanding of country, sovereign, and public sector risk frameworks.
• Experience supporting governance, risk, regulatory, or control-related processes.
• Strong business analysis, process management, and program coordination skills.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel including Pivot tables and data analysis.
• Data analysis and reporting automation capabilities are beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Support execution of the Country Risk Limits and CFR processes.
• Coordinate process activities and stakeholder engagement across multiple teams.
• Prepare meeting materials, documentation, governance artifacts, and senior management reporting.
• Ensure consistency, adherence to governance requirements, and regulatory compliance.
• Support governance oversight of sovereign risk, country risk appetite, country limits, balance sheet risk, liquidity risk, public sector exposure management, and country franchise strategy.
• Review and support approval processes for balance sheet and liquidity limits for sovereigns (approx. 82% of Client's Global Public Sector exposure).
• Conduct country assessments, risk appetite reviews, governance reviews, strategic country considerations, and regulatory compliance activities.
• Monitor sovereign exposures, country limits, liquidity metrics, and risk reporting.
• Identify and implement process enhancements and efficiency opportunities, including streamlining CFR reviews and standardizing documentation.

Skills

Business analysis

Governance & risk

Process management

Program coordination

Executive presentations

MS Excel advanced

PowerPoint

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Tableau

Power BI

Governance tools

Job description

Grow your career as an expert Business Risk Analyst with an innovative global bank in Irving, TX. Contract role with strong possibility of extension. Will require working a hybrid schedule 3 days onsite per week.

Join one of the world's most renowned global banks and trusted brand with over 200 years of continuously evolving financial services worldwide. You will work alongside some of the smartest minds in the industry who are excited to share their knowledge and to learn from you.

Contract Duration: 12+ Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 4+ years of Business Analyst experience within Risk at top-tier global financial institutions, Central banks (e.g., Fed, BoE, ECB), Credit rating agencies, or multilateral institutions/development banks (e.g., IMF, World Bank, EBRD)
• Understanding of country, sovereign, and public sector risk frameworks.
• Experience supporting governance, risk management, regulatory, or control-related processes.
• Strong business analysis, process management, and program coordination skills.
• Experience with internal risk management platforms, governance tracking tools, workflow and approval systems, and reporting databases is beneficial.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel including Pivot tables and using Excel for data analysis, reporting & tracking, reconciliation activities
• Risk and governance metric analysis
• Data visualization tools (SQL, Python, R, Tableau, Power BI) are not required but related data analysis and reporting automation capabilities are preferred.
• Skilled in PowerPoint to create executive-level presentations and governance materials
• Desired Skills & ExperiencePrefer process automation and workflow tool experience.
• Business Process Management (BPM) platform experience is helpful.
• Data analysis and reporting automation capabilities are beneficial.

What You Will Be Doing

• Support execution of the Country Risk Limits and CFR processes.
• Coordinate process activities and stakeholder engagement across multiple teams.
• Prepare meeting materials, documentation, governance artifacts, and senior management reporting.
• Ensure consistency, adherence to governance requirements, and regulatory compliance across both processes.
• Support governance oversight of sovereign risk, country risk appetite, country limits, balance sheet risk, liquidity risk, public sector exposure management, and country franchise strategy.
• Review and support approval processes for balance sheet and liquidity limits for sovereigns representing approximately 82% of Client's Global Public Sector exposure.
• Conduct country assessments, risk appetite reviews, governance reviews, strategic country considerations, and regulatory compliance activities.
• Monitor sovereign exposures, country limits, liquidity metrics, and risk reporting.
• Identify and implement process enhancements and efficiency opportunities, including streamlining CFR reviews, standardizing review documentation, enhancing governance reporting, improving stakeholder coordination, and reducing manual processes.