Position: Head of Risks
Company: PaymentOp
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

Head of Risks&Verification participates in identifying, measuring, mitigating, monitoring and reporting risks across the Company, builds a culture of risk management,  develops risk mitigation strategies by entity, process and/or project and accumulates, synthesizes and reports on risks to executive management.  Also establishes risk procedures and routines to support the Company's risk methodology.

**The primary responsibilities for Head of Risks&Verification:**
- Implementation, evolution and management of the Company's  
  Risk Management Program and Model Risk Management Program        
- Creation enterprise risk management strategy that safeguards 
  the Company, customers, partners and reputation        
- Proactively manages and advises the Company on potential risks, 
  assures objectives are achieved and disciplines are implemented 
  to drive continuous improvement     
- Develop reporting to the executive management  committee 
  regarding risk management policies, processes and execution
- Develop and implement changes as needed to minimize risks as 
  well as improve internal and external risk characteristics across all 
  business lines
- Provide support and training to build awareness within the 
  Company, achieve growth targets and to protect the Company 
  from future exposure
- Elevates risk events and/or propose mitigation plans to more 
  senior levels, when appropriate
- Support the development and risk monitoring within the BSA 
  Department
- Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to develop process 
  efficiencies and/or metrics for key risk indicators
- Collaborate with process owners in the implementation of risk 
  controls/reports to limit the Company risk exposure via RCSAs
- Collaborate with model owners to review and assess model 
  characteristics, risks, and ensure model validations are accurate
- Actively participates in Company initiatives and projects, as 
  needed, providing risk management, data analysis and Company 
  processing knowledge and skills

**Requirements & Skills:**
- 5+ years of prior banking experience in Risks&Verification
- Knowledge of risk management principles and practices.
- Familiarity with FFIEC guidelines
- Knowledge: on-line banking or PSP
- Strong analytic, logical reasoning and problem solving skills
- Ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or 
  conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly 
  unrelated events)
- Ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce 
  answers that make sense
- Working knowledge of IT processes and principles
- Must have a strong understanding of quantitative analyses – 
  math / statistical analysis
- Process improvement and technology skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Strong verbal/written communication and presentation skills