Job Description:
Do you have a strong background in Operational Risk and Controls, gained from a Financial Services setting? If so, we have the role for you!
Our client, a global financial services firm, is seeking a Finance Risk and Assurance Specialist to join their Glasgow team on an initial 12-month contract.
In this broad role, you will have the unique opportunity to support all areas of finance-owned operational risk data governance, including control validation, reporting, and analysis.
Essential Skills/Experience:
* Analytical skills with a risk and control focus and high regard for attention to detail.
* Critical thinking to challenge processes, solve for ad-hoc queries, and creativity to suggest alternative approaches.
* Strong appreciation of operational risk concepts and reporting.
* High proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint.
* Committed and self-motivated individual who can demonstrate initiative and problem-solving ability.
* Excellent organisational skills and the ability to work to deadlines.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to deal with colleagues/clients of all levels.
* Strong presentation skills.
* Previous Financial Services Finance experience or accounting qualification (ACCA, ICAS, ICAEW, CIMA) desirable.
* Skills in digital tooling such as Alteryx, Power Bi, Ui Path desirable.
Core Responsibilities:
* Perform monitoring and quality assurance activities over risks and controls, ensuring these are appropriate and in line with expectations, with consideration to ORIs and Issues captured in Firm Risk Tools.
* Complete Finance operational risk reporting with a focus on risks and controls.
* Partner with colleagues and internal clients on various Finance-owned risk and controls related initiatives to improve the design, monitoring, and reporting.
* Assist global colleagues in the execution of various streams of operational risk related work, i.e., RCSA, ORIs, Issues, and Controls Governance.
* Attend various Risk, Finance, and Firmwide forums focused on risk and control governance.
* Ad hoc operational risk focused duties, as required.
Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.
Job reference: 15856
To apply for this vacancy, applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.
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