Senior Business Risk Manager to Asset and Wealth Management

Nordea is a leading Nordic universal bank. We are helping our customers realise their dreams and aspirations – and we have done that for 200 years. We want to make a real difference for our customers and the communities where we operate – by being a strong and personal financial partner.

Job ID: 8472
We are now looking for a Senior Business Risk Manager to Asset and Wealth Management to join the Asset and Wealth Management (AWM) Business Risk Management team. This is an opportunity for you to play an integral role to support the business with their non-financial risk management needs!
Compliance and integrity go hand in hand. It’s all about making sure that we’re a trusted partner to both our customers and society – the foundation for great customer experiences. That’s where you come in. Working with us, you’ll help ensure that compliance underpins every decision we make and every action we take in AWM.
Together, we are passionate about building a bank that makes a difference – one where you can learn and grow. Will you help us lead the way in embedding compliance to transform the future of banking?

At Nordea, we’re committed to being a partner our customers and society can count on. Joining us means you’ll have an impact on how we do banking – today and tomorrow. So bring your ideas, skills and unique background. With us, you’ll be in good company with plenty of opportunities to collaborate, grow and make your mark on something bigger.

About this opportunity
The AWM Business Risk Management Team is instrumental in taking risk culture to the next level, and by being fully integrated with our business partners, we create sustainable resilience and proactive risk management. We are a lean team of fully committed and motivated employees working together with a professional, collaborative and positive mindset. We work closely across all parts of Asset & Wealth Management, with various stakeholders in different value chains / frameworks, as well as with other business areas and group functions in the group and are a trusted partner. 
You will join the Asset & Wealth Management BRM team enhancing the AWM’s capabilities to manage non-financial risks (operational and compliance risks) especially in the Technology, IT and Application management area. You will also be involved in risk and compliance matters for specific divisions within AWM as needed to support us and AWM in becoming a state-of-the-art first line of defence.

What you’ll be doing:
* Be responsible for collecting and producing high quality, timely and relevant material for presentations, proposals and reporting in order to support decision-making
* Participate in or lead projects, translate business and specific non-financial risk needs to tangible objectives for projects of a certain level of complexity
* Deep dive into specific topics/business units to analyse and proactively identify improvement areas. Deliver top-notch material and concrete output
* Advise and support management on non-financial risk matters to increase risk awareness, establish relationship of trust to the stakeholders, safeguard business against unexpected losses and to protect Nordea’s reputation
* Define, plan and develop appropriate processes, guidance and training to secure relevant understanding of business risk and compliance topics
* Give ad hoc support to the Head of AWM BRM

The role is based in Helsinki; Copenhagen; Oslo; Stockholm.

Who you are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us. We imagine that you enjoy learning and are excited about bringing your ideas to the table. You’re dependable, willing to speak up – even when it’s difficult – and committed to empowering others.
Your profile and background:
* Possess excellent stakeholder management skills
* Be proactive and act as a driver in the value chain to provide information for the decision process to meet targets within deadline. Be output and delivery oriented
* Have great analytical skills and the ability to apply them to risk, reporting, analytics, and control designs
* Are able to manage multiple tasks, execution oriented, very well organized, with a structured approach and well-developed stakeholder management and co-operation skills
* Previous experience in a bank or financial institution, preferably previous experience in risk management
* Outstanding communication and writing / reporting skills
* Proficiency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
* Bachelor's Degree or Master’s Degree
* Professional English both written, as well as spoken
* Risk Management Tool experience a plus
* Basic IT knowledge e.g. SDLC (software development lifecycle) VMware experience and/or knowledge
* ITIL experience / certification (foundation)
* IT security knowledge / experience i.e. vulnerability reporting / analysis, penetration testing, access management
* Ability to communicate with technology representatives
* Act as the link between technology and business assuring goal and objective alignment

If this sounds like you, get in touch!
Next steps

Submit your application no later than 20/04/2022. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Victoria Liebig at victoria.liebig@nordea.com.