Job Summary

Our client in Asset Management is looking for a Group Strategy and Risk Manager. The ideal candidate is saddled with formulating and implementing the company’s internal and external strategy, mitigating against risk and ensuring system audit control.

Job Details

• Governance: Responsible for providing strategic support to the organization’s achievement of its corporate objectives, through the enablement of efficient and effective governance of significant risks and related opportunities, across the group.
• Risk Monitoring: Undertake the development, deployment, and analysis of Risk Control Self-Assessment Questions, Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), and other strategic risk parameters (i.e. losses and incidents, key risk exposures and early warning indicators).
• Risk Assessment: Support the development of analytical systems, data management capabilities, & processes, and undertake risk assessments of the organization’s products, procedures, Service Level Agreements etc.
• Risk Identification and Mitigation: Lead the proactive identification and analysis of emergent risks to the organization, design appropriate mitigations, and implement them accordingly.
• Manage Risk Management Policies and Processes: Lead the development and continuous improvement of the organization’s operational and financial risk management processes, and policies, in line with identified best practices, and organizational fit, to mitigate the impact of risk events on the organization.
• Risk-Based Capital Allocation: Apply appropriate methodology(s) to determine the allocation of economic capital to business activities based on risk, to optimize the group’s risk portfolio through business activities & risk-transfer strategies.
• Process Mapping: Lead the mapping of functional processes across the organization, to document controls in existing products and processes.
• After Action Reviews: Disseminate learning points from loss and loss events to all employees.
• Support Team’s Development: Provide advice, guidance, and assistance to less experienced colleagues as required.
• Strategy Formulation:
  • Action the development of strategic plans for each SBU in the group
  • Plan, Deliver, Execute and Manage brand strategic campaigns (internal and external);
  • Conduct Market Research and Competitors Analysis;
  • Translate brand elements into plans and go-to marketing strategies;
  • Optimizing budget spending;
  • Plan, execute, and measure experiments and conversion tests.

Requirements

• The ideal candidate is required to have a minimum of 10 years working experience and 4 years in a strategic role. 
• Key Competence: A highly sociable personality with strong interpersonal skills and financial acumen. He must possess a good appreciation and understanding of strategy formulation and business planning frameworks, risk principles and mitigation techniques
• Professional certification in finance and/or risk management from a recognized professional body (e.g., CFA, CGMA, ACCA, ICAN etc.)