Senior Risk Manager

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Chicago - United States of America time type:
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** Job Title
** Senior Risk Manager
** Job Description**#
** About IG Group**# IG Group (LSEG: IGG) is a leading global fintech company, established in 1974, and headquartered in London. As an innovative member of the FTSE 250, IG Group provides dynamic online trading platforms and a robust educational ecosystem, empowering ambitious individuals worldwide in their pursuit of financial freedom. With operations spanning nineteen countries across Europe, Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and North America, IG Group offers clients access to approximately 19,000 financial markets, including shares, forex, indices, and commodities.

Our core values—Champion the Client, Learn Fast Together, and Raise the Bar—drive our commitment to delivering innovative technology and exceptional client service.

IG Group is undergoing a significant transformation, led by CEO Breon Corcoran, appointed in early 2024, and a leadership team that includes newly appointed executives. This transformation involves a pivot to a more agile, regionally focused operating model, ensuring greater responsiveness to market dynamics and consumer needs.

This role reports into the Group Chief Risk Officer (CRO), with a dotted line reporting relationship to the CCO of IG Group’s US Division.# #
** About the Opportunity
** Our US North American operations represent a key growth market as we expand our product offerings and market presence across American exchanges and OTC markets. The US division now requires sophisticated risk management expertise to support this growth trajectory while navigating our complex product portfolio and the US regulatory environment. This position offers the unique chance to build-out IG NA’s second-line risk capability to support the business in driving sustainable growth at pace.#

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** What you'll do
**** Risk Framework Development & Implementation
*** Oversee the implementation and embedding of IG Group’s enterprise risk management framework within IG’s US operations, including ensuring the framework is appropriately tailored to US operations and applicable regulatory requirements
* Monitor IG NA’s risk management processes (across all areas of operational risk and financial risk) to ensure IG NA’s risk profile remains within IG Group’s overall risk appetite, supported by an appropriate framework of systems and controls.
* Ensure all material risk issues, including any material control deficiencies, are identified and escalated in a timely manner and are tracked through to completion. This includes providing independent challenge to the business on first-line remediation plans and timing.
* Support NA and Group Governance forums discharge their risk oversight responsibilities, including through the production of relevant risk reporting. This includes Chairing the local risk management forum and escalating issues to the Group Risk Committee where appropriate.
* Support  IG NA’s response to any regulatory enquiries or supervisory visits relating to IG NA’s risk management systems and controls.
* Collaborate with the IG NA Chief Compliance Officer to ensure an integrated second-line of defence within the US business.
** Strategic Business Partnership
*** Serve as a trusted and independent commercial advisor to the US CEO and local senior leadership team to support the integration of risk considerations into strategic planning and business development initiatives
* Provide independent review and challenge to the US management team in relation to all risk management activity, including in the identification, assessment, and mitigation of IG NA’s material risks.
* Provide risk expertise and guidance to support business growth while maintaining appropriate risk appetite
* Support potential M&A activities with comprehensive risk assessment and integration planning
* Partner directly with trading teams to embed risk management best practices, providing expert guidance and constructive challenge on commercial risks#
** What you'll need for this role
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