Senior Associate, Risk Analytics

Company: Santander Holdings USA Inc
Location: Grapevine
Posted on: September 9, 2020

Job Description:

Description
Job Family: Risk

Monitors activities to minimize the company's exposure to risk. Activities may include quantitative analysis, risk identification and remediation. Represents or supports the reputation of the company to minimize compliance and regulatory risk by resolving issues and ensuring adherence to company and legal standards. Responsible for ensuring that all of the company's activities adhere to the necessary rules and regulations, and that the company complies with legal/regulatory statutes and jurisdictions.

Job Function: Risk Management

Ensures adherence to the policies and procedures established by the company. Manages policy, standard definition and monitoring of policy, standard implementation, ensuring harmonization and consistency of risk policies. Monitors and manages risk/exposure and compliance with the company's policies. Identifies, manages and reports on the company's risk areas. Evaluates the adequacy and effectiveness of data, document retention, and monitors systems.

Summary of Responsibilities:

The Sr. Associate, Portfolio Management & Oversight leverages their subject matter expertise in second line defense to improve existing processes and practices. S/he leads special risk mitigation projects and/or programs, business continuity and other incident response and security related activities supporting industry best practices, improved efficiency, effectiveness and risk reductions.

Essential Functions:

• Leads special risk mitigation projects and/or programs, business continuity and other incident response and security related activities.
• Builds positive relationships with executives, managers and teams, while developing an understanding of the business and strategic initiatives.
• Initiates change, integration, operationalization of new events.
• Identifies enterprise trends, synergies, and opportunities for change.
• Serves as a liaison between first and third lines of defense.
• Enhances governance processes in support of infrastructure builds and oversee strategic compliance / business solutions.
• Maintains a strong rapport with local risk teams to create a strong risk culture of performance and accountability.
• Leverages subject matter expertise in second line to significantly improve existing processes and practices.
• Oversees and ensures consistent quality control, accuracy, and compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements for reporting processes.
• Influences others at an operational level regarding new concepts, best practices and approaches related to risk mitigation, risk identification and resolution, and/or risk management.
• Represents organization as a primary contact for specific risk management projects and initiatives.
• Systematizes ad hoc reporting for line of businesses and team members to facilitate miscellaneous senior and executive management reporting and status updates as needed.
• Coaches, reviews and delegates work to junior level professionals.
  Other Functions:
  • Acts as a subject matter expert (SME) while providing leadership, guidance, and mentorship to other team members.
  • Other duties as assigned.
    Requirements:
    • Education -
      • Bachelor's Degree: Accounting, Business, Statistics, Risk Management, Information Systems, Finance, Economics or equivalent field.
      • or equivalent work experience
      • Master's Degree: Accounting, Business, Statistics, Risk Management, Information Systems, Finance, Economics or equivalent field.
      • Experience -
        • 9-12 years Financial Services industry.
        • 9-12 years Risk, Consumer Operations, Internal Controls, or related experience.
        • Skills & Abilities -
          • Advanced knowledge in regulatory reporting and compliances.
          • Expertise in delivering high quality work products, reflecting attention to detail and analytical prowess.
          • Demonstrated subject matter expertise in second line identification and resolution.
          • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to interact with senior leaders across departments.
          • Superior project management skills.
          • Ability to analyze risk and design efficient control practices to minimize risk.
          • Ability to quickly grasp complex concepts, including global business and regulatory matters.
          • Ability to lead, influence and direct peers, subordinates and management.
          • Ability to adjust to new developments/changing circumstances.
          • Self-directed, self-motivated and demonstrated experience providing ideas and solutions to further business understanding.
            Competencies:
            • Collaboration - Relationship Management:
              • Advanced - Leading and Guiding
                • Improves relationships between key individuals to achieve seamless cross-team work flow and positively impact results
                • Uses informal networks to gain support for ideas and projects
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                • Collaboration - Teamwork:
                  • Advanced - Leading and Guiding
                    • Brings out the best in each team member by consistently motivating and acknowledging peer contributions
                    • Understands and leverages team dynamics
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                    • Execution - Accountability:
                      • Advanced - Leading and Guiding
                        • Fully accountable for timeliness, completeness, quality of projects, processes, products and services
                        • Remains calm and focused on goals while facing pressures, obstacles or short-term setbacks
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                        • Influence - Information Sharing:
                          • Advanced - Leading and Guiding
                            • Ensures people receive the information they require, and brings the team together to share information
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                            • Influence - Two-way communication:
                              • Advanced - Leading and Guiding
                                • Effectively conveys difficult or complex information in an easy to understand manner, by providing the big picture and illustrating important linkages
                                • Asks open-ended questions that encourage others to give their points of view
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                                • Risk Business Acumen - Industry Acumen:
                                  • Advanced - Leading and Guiding
                                    • Keeps up -to-date with external market events, pressures and regulations which may impact the organization and assesses whether similar issues exist in the organization
                                    • Can identify functional and organizational implications associated with major trends
                                    • Designs solutions to address industry activities that impact the organization
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                                    • Risk Management - Knowledge of Risk Management Policies, Regulations, Processes and Procedures:
                                      • Advanced - Leading and Guiding
                                        • Monitors adherence to policies, regulations, processes and procedures within function and actively undertakes corrective action where necessary
                                        • Understands end to end processes across the organization and how processes are integrated
                                        • Has a practical knowledge of regulations impacting area supported
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                                        • Risk Management - Risk and Compliance Adherence:
                                          • Advanced - Leading and Guiding
                                            • Ensures that all directs and colleagues have appropriate knowledge of risk and the regulatory environment
                                            • Investigates and identifies the root cause and corrects items deemed non-compliant, regardless of pressures from business or management
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                                              Working Conditions:
                                              • Frequently: Minimal physical effort such as sitting, standing, and walking.
                                              • Occasional moving and lifting of equipment and furniture is required to support onsite and offsite meeting setup and teardown.
                                              • Physically capable of lifting up to fifty pounds, able to bend, kneel, climb ladders.
                                                Employer's Rights:
                                                • This job description does not list all the duties of the job. You may be asked by your supervisors or managers to perform other duties. You will be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the tasks listed in this job description.
                                                • The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. This job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason.

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