Senior Vice President, Operational Risk â- Investment Management

BNY Mellon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks an Operational Risk Officer to join their dynamic team in New York. In this pivotal role, you will engage directly with business leaders to identify, assess, and mitigate operational risks while ensuring compliance with the Operational Risk Management Framework. You will leverage your extensive experience to provide independent oversight and challenge day-to-day risk management activities, fostering a culture of proactive risk management. The firm offers a competitive compensation package and a collaborative environment where your contributions will significantly impact the organization’s success and resilience in the financial sector.

Benefits

Flexible global resources

Health and wellbeing programs

Generous paid leaves

Performance bonuses

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in operational risk, preferably in investment management.
• Strong communication and presentation skills required.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily risk management activities and ensure compliance with risk frameworks.
• Advise business lines on risk assessment and control gaps.

Skills

Operational Risk Management

Risk Assessment

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

PhD

Job description

Bring your ideas. Make history.

BNY Mellon offers an exciting array of future-forward careers at the intersection of business, finance, and technology. We are one of the world's top asset management and banking firms that manages trillions of dollars in assets, custody and/or administration. Known as the bank of banks - 97% of the world’s top banks work with us as we lead and serve our customers into the new era of digital.

With over 240 years of rich history and industry firsts, BNY Mellon has been built upon our proven ability to evolve, lead, and drive new ideas at every turn. Today, we’re approximately 50,000 employees across 35 countries with a culture that empowers you to grow, take risks, experiment and be yourself. This is what #LifeAtBNYMellon is all about.

Team Description; Role function on team:

BNY Mellon Investment Management is one of the world’s largest asset and wealth managers, globally managing over US $2.0 trillion of assets for its clients. As the global investment management arm of BNY Mellon, one of the world’s major financial services groups. Our seven investment firms offer a diverse range of strategies in Multi-Asset, Alternatives, Liability-Driven Investment, Active Equity, Active Fixed Income, Passive, and Cash. This function will be based in New York and directly support the Dreyfus and Mellon IM firms.

As an Operational Risk Officer, this role will have daily interactions with the Business, COO, and Operations managers. Direct, face-to-face interactions are critical to ensure that we can provide appropriate independent second line of defense review, challenge, oversight, and advice to Dreyfus’ first line of defense. This role ensures that operational risks are properly identified, assessed, and mitigated, thus enabling proactive risk management aligned with ongoing investment management activities and strategic priorities and plans.

For BNY Mellon, it is critical for this position to review, challenge, oversee, and advise on operational risk issues and events that require detailed root cause analysis review and remediation plans. These interactions allow the employee being hired to have immediate, ongoing access to what is happening within the Business and play an important role to prevent operational losses and regulatory issues.

Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for the ongoing independent oversight and challenge of day-to-day risk management activities, client, product and process change risk assessments and risk reporting for an assigned business line/entity risk facing a high level of risk.
2. Advises and assists the assigned business line with the evaluation of their existing processes and uses a high level of knowledge of risks that commonly arise to appropriately direct the business line's activities to address any control gaps.
3. Uses strong familiarity with the assigned business line to anticipate, assess, monitor and report on operational, fiduciary, reputational, business and strategic risks inherent to the assigned business line.
4. Directs the assigned business unit's compliance with the Operational Risk Management Framework by identifying, assessing and mitigating risks, identifying emerging issues, contributing to the development of processes and controls to manage risks, monitoring the adequacy and effectiveness of the control environment, remediating deficiencies, monitoring and challenging business activities and enforcing business line awareness of and adherence to the risk management framework.
5. Independently develops reporting on outputs of risk management activities completed. May assign reporting activities to more junior professionals.
6. Recommends modifications to reduce implementation risk and uses strong influence with business line management to ensure compliance, risk and control documentation and notification of all appropriate representatives and regulators. Uses established working relationships with the Risk Management, Compliance and Audit teams and members of the business line team to ensure timely completion of risk-related deliverables, issue resolution and implementation of improvements. Responsible for appropriately escalating issues to the Risk and Compliance management team.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s Degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required. Master’s degree or PhD preferred.
2. 8+ years total work experience with 10-12 years of experience in operational risk preferred.
3. Previous experience in a 2nd Line Risk environment is required. Previous experience in an Investment Management or Asset Management organization is preferred.
4. Excellent and demonstrable communication, written, and presentation skills are required.

Our Benefits:

BNY Mellon offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

Base salary if hired will be determined on an individualized basis, including as to experience and market location, and is only part of the BNYM total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, short and long-term incentive packages, and company-sponsored benefit programs.

BNY Mellon assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The base salary for this position is expected to be between $100,000 and $166,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base salary if hired will be determined on an individualized basis, including as to experience and market location, and is only part of the BNYM total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, short and long-term incentive packages, and Company-sponsored benefit programs.

This position is at-will and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, change in geographic location, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals With Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

Our ambition is to build the best global team – one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve – and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.