IT Risk Manager recruitment

UBS is a leading global financial services firm. Our Investment Bank is one of the world’s top global investment banking and securities firms, providing a full spectrum of products to institutional and corporate clients, intermediaries, government and hedge funds worldwide.  

As a member of the Compute Risk Management team you will provide Risk Management functions for infrastructure products and services in the Distributed, Midrange Mainframe environments of GTIS, to control the risk exposure.
The team's aim is to ensure that all Operational risks across Compute PME and ISD are identified, assessed prioritized within the Risk inventory, so that the risks are remediated to meet the acceptable risk profile. The Team also performs Risk advisory provides a central interface to the internal external auditors and further risk partners.

We are looking for an experienced:

IT Risk Manager who enjoys working within a dynamic and diverse environment and strives for impact in the organization of GTIS and the wider UBS organisation. Your role will involve pursuing the following goals:

• Supporting the Compute Management teams as a trusted advisor by performing Risk advisory consultancy for all kinds of Risk Compliance issues.
• Carrying out risk investigations, to independently assess whether all risks have been identified. Gaining consensus and management support to understand and address the identified risks
• Identifying any new risks by tracking all major incidents and using all the other risk indicators.
• Ensuring that the risk inventory represents an accurate view of risks, their severity and reflects the current remediation activities. Working with the action plan owners to make sure that the required remediation is progressing.
• Liaising as the central interface with Group Internal Audit and External Auditors help coordinate audits. Establishing sound and clear action plans, agreed with action plan owners with realistic due dates, in a timely manner.
• Embracing the continuous improvement and advancement of a sustainable Operational Risk Framework of UBS. Collaborating with all other Risk Management for a unified UBS approach leveraging best practices.
• Driving for compliance with the operational risk Policies standards.
• Supporting the whole Policy Technical standards lifecycle from the initial discussions, through policy creation, publishing in Polo to the final removal of some policies.
• Making sure that other Stream Risk Managers are aware of Risks in their area, sharing Risks within the Risk community that they are correctly owned so they can be effectively mitigated.

Requirements

• Experience within the financial services sector
• Experienced in risk reviews and risk mitigation measures
• Previous experience in risk management/control, process/ product management, technical support in distributed systems or as an auditor in respective area
• Have excellent report writing skills and an ability to communicate complex issues clearly and concisely to non-technical persons and senior management
• Knowledge and know how regarding regulatory and compliance framework
• Ability to work in global teams across varying time zones, with different nationalities work cultures
• Ability to translate to and from IT / technical issues to business and decision making relevant format.
• Understanding of best practices in the risk area and should have a litany of such requirements that you would measure our current environment against
• Ability to build/manage relationships across organizational boundaries, internationally.

UBS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We respect and seek to empower each individual and support the diverse cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences within our workforce.