Head of Risk Identification and Emerging Events & Scenarios
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Time Type: Full time
Posted on: Posted Yesterday
Application Deadline: 09/29/2024
Address: 320 S Canal Street
Job Family Group: Audit, Risk & Compliance
The role of Head of Risk Identification and Emerging Events & Scenarios is crucial for effective risk management. This is led by:
- Strategic Insights: This role provides strategic insight by identifying potential risks that could impact BMO’s objectives, involving understanding and assessing internal and external factors affecting BMO’s earnings, capital, and liquidity resources.
- Board Level Visibility: The key stakeholders are the Board and Executive Committee, who require documentation and tracking of risks. The Risk ID inventory is key to bringing together the 9 types of risks that BMO is exposed to.
- Regulatory Requirements: This role will inform regulatory required stress tests and scenarios for capital planning purposes and for assessing vulnerabilities to severe yet plausible events, e.g., geo-political risk impact.
This newly developed role has breadth of coverage across all Operating Groups and Corporate Service Areas across North America, integrating across BMO’s 9 Risk Types.
Responsibilities include:
- Providing oversight, monitoring, and reporting on the identification, assessment, monitoring, and control of all categories of risk (Market, Operational, Credit, and Liquidity risks) across the enterprise.
- Developing and maintaining the risk management framework that includes governance practices across the assigned portfolio.
- Executing decision rights within the governance framework and working with stakeholders to ensure compliance and effective reporting.
- Owning the Risk Identification Framework and managing the Quarterly Refresh Cycle Process to update the Enterprise and US inventories.
- Providing advice, tools, and training to Risk ID leads from 1st and 2nd line.
- Leading and integrating the monitoring, measurement & reporting on the status of the risk governance program.
- Identifying potential risk situations/impacts and making recommendations or escalations as per decision rights frameworks.
- Researching existing or emerging requirements & related best practices to assist and develop recommendations for changes/enhancements.
- Building effective relationships with internal/external stakeholders.
- Maintaining tools and templates for risk programs and standards as required.
- Promoting and supporting the Bank’s risk culture.
- Driving simplicity and productivity enhancements for optimization across groups.
- Fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Developing leaders and fostering a high-performance culture.
- Leading and mentoring a team with diverse risk and business experience.
Qualifications:
- Post secondary education.
- 10+ years experience in financial services.
- Expert knowledge of risk management, audit, compliance, and governance practices.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities with effective planning and organizing skills.
- Expert verbal & written communication skills.
- Expert analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Expert influence skills.
- Expert collaboration & team skills, with a focus on cross-group collaboration.
- Expert data-driven decision-making skills.
- Seasoned expert with extensive industry knowledge.
Please note the target base salary range for this specific position is noted as a range from $200,000 USD to $260,000 USD depending on experience.
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