Senior Country Risk Lead | Macro & Geopolitical Analysis

BNY; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY is seeking a Country Risk Manager to join the Credit Risk team. This role oversees enterprise country risk, coordinating assessments, monitoring, governance reporting, and regulatory support across jurisdictions.

You’ll lead day-to-day team execution and partner with stakeholders to align risk with strategic objectives. Ideal candidates bring strong analytics, senior stakeholder communication, and a track record in country, sovereign, or geopolitical risk management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, International Relations, Political Science, Risk Management or a related field.
• Significant experience in country risk, sovereign risk, geopolitical risk, credit risk, portfolio risk, or related risk management disciplines.
• Strong knowledge of macroeconomic, sovereign, and geopolitical risk analysis.
• Proven ability to review analytical work, manage competing priorities, and lead team execution.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, with experience communicating to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support leadership of the enterprise country risk function and manage day-to-day team priorities and deliverables.
• Review and challenge country risk assessments, business requests, scorecards, annual reviews, and related analytical outputs.
• Oversee monitoring of sovereign, macroeconomic, geopolitical, and broader country risk developments.
• Coordinate country risk reporting, emerging risk analysis, and materials for senior management and governance committees.
• Support country limit oversight, exposure management, and country-related underwriting or recommendation processes.
• Partner with stakeholders across business lines and risk disciplines to provide an integrated country risk perspective and align risk assessment with strategic business objectives.
• Support regulatory submissions, stress testing, audit requests, and other control-related activities requiring country risk input.
• Help enhance country risk data, tools, policies, procedures, and reporting processes leveraging the use of in-house Artificial Intelligence tools.
• Act as a delegate for the Head of Country Risk in selected forums and discussions.

Skills

Country risk analysis

Team leadership

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Economics/IR/Political Science/Risk Management

Job description

BNY is seeking a Country Risk Manager to join the Credit Risk team. This role oversees enterprise country risk, coordinating assessments, monitoring, governance reporting, and regulatory support across jurisdictions.

You’ll lead day-to-day team execution and partner with stakeholders to align risk with strategic objectives. Ideal candidates bring strong analytics, senior stakeholder communication, and a track record in country, sovereign, or geopolitical risk management.