Senior Operational Risk Specialist
Core
Provide independent second-line operational risk oversight, advice, and assurance reviews to strengthen risk management across strategic, regulatory, technology, and product changes in consumer lending.
Role type
Senior Operational Risk Specialist (Second Line of Defence)
Builds
Operational risk oversight program, risk insights for senior leaders, and control effectiveness assessments
Domain
Financial Services / Consumer Lending / Operational Risk
Deliverable
dashboards & analysis
Required skills
Operational risk management, internal controls assessment, risk lifecycle management, regulatory compliance, data analytics, project governance, commercial judgement, stakeholder influence
Preferred skills
Consumer credit products knowledge, AI tools for analysis, technology risk, third-party risk, operational resilience
Technologies
AI tools, governance risk and compliance systems, data analytics platforms
Responsibilities
Lead targeted assurance reviews and deep-dives to assess control effectiveness, provide proactive risk advice across the risk lifecycle, turn risk data into clear insights for senior leaders, strengthen operational risk oversight tools and processes, coach business teams on risk awareness, constructively challenge senior stakeholders on risk matters