Finance Risk Manager at Heirs Holdings

Job ID: 434
Department / Function: Finance Risk Manager

Job Description

• The risk manager will be responsible for the risk management program of the organization.
• The responsibilities include facilitating the identification of risks throughout the organization, developing, reporting, and monitoring formats on risk management issues and developing methodologies for the assessment of risks throughout the organization.

Responsibilitie(s)

• Establish, implement, and maintain a comprehensive enterprise risk management framework to cover all internal and external risks.
• Create and improve on tools for identifying, measuring, monitoring, controlling, and reporting risk exposures.
• Develop and implement the Group’s risk management strategies and capabilities across all risk classes and exposure types.
• Deliver and further enhance the Group’s risk appetite framework e.g. the development of risk-based metrics and assist Senior Management and Board of Directors in understanding and controlling the risks to the Group.
• Identify potential threats to the financial stability of the company and implementing strategies that would enable the Group to attain sustainable profitability through adoption of adequate risk-adjusted decisions.
• Provide guidance to ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and preparing the Group for future regulatory changes.
• Establish and implement sub-enterprise risk management policies that would be deployed to monitor various risk exposures across the Group and work with stakeholders to review and upgrade such policies from time to time to ensure relevance of such policies and procedures.
• Responsible for the maintenance and analysis of all risk exposures, ensuring root cause analysis of risk incidents, and providing recommendations to the Senior Management on risk mitigation actions.
• Advise Senior Management and Non-Executive Directors on potential risks that may emerge from business strategies or new business lines and initiative.
• Ensure the organization's financial risk management policies, limits, and strategies are in compliance with applicable regulations, rating agency standards, and strategic imperatives of the organization.

Qualification / Experience Requirement(s)

• Bachelor's Degree in numerate discipline is required. Post-graduate degree is an added advantage
• Professional qualification will also be an added advantage
• A Masters’ degree in Finance or an MBA will be an added advantage
• Preferred Years of Experience: 10
• Experience in statistical/risk modeling and forecasting preferably related to financial services in the banking industry, and other relevant industries.