Risk, Operational Risk, Associate, Dallas

JOB TITLE:

Associate, Operational Risk

Number of direct reports:
None

• Identify, monitor, and analyze operational risks arising from data management practices such as prioritization of critical data, cataloguing of data lineage, data sourcing contracts, data governance standards, data quality controls and data quality monitoring
• Develop evidence-based challenges and recommendations to improve data management operations and reduce operational risk
• Develop, monitor and report metrics to measure adherence to data management standards, such as ownership, authoritative data sourcing and data quality controls
• Propose qualitative and quantitative operational risk appetite/tolerance and monitor risk‑taking trends through bespoke metrics
• Monitor the key control inventory for critical data, challenging the absent or non‑compliant controls and ensure alignment with defined standards
• Conduct scenario analysis by working with stakeholders to develop plausible tail risk scenarios used in quantifying specific businesses exposure to potential risk
• Contribute to divisional and functional risk profile assessments by highlighting risk issues and trends to senior divisional managers and senior Operational Risk management team
• Conduct quarterly triggered assessments to ensure the divisional risk and control self‑assessment outcomes are consistent, credible, and underpinned by appropriate evidence
• Remain current on business drivers, regulatory and industry changes impacting the firm’s data governance activities and obligations
• Contribute to the advancement of operational risk methods and practices and the operational risk management framework
• Identify and drive initiatives that improve the risk management activities at the firm

Master’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Computer Science, Accounting, Law, or a related field and one (1) of experience in the job offered or in a related role.

OR

Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Computer Science, Accounting, Law, or a related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or in a related role.

Prior experience must include two (2) years with Master’s degree or four (4) years in the following:

• Regulatory Compliance and Business Law
• Corporate Governance and Risk Management
• Finance & Financial Products
• Operational Process Analysis
• Management and Stakeholder Communication
• Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state‑of‑the‑art on‑site health centers in certain offices.

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on‑site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre‑approved amount).

We offer on‑site child care centers that provide full‑time and emergency back‑up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

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