Senior Application Risk Manager (ARM) – MOT -Philadelphia – Permanent recruitment
Macquarie Group (Macquarie) is a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services. Founded in 1969, Macquarie operates in over 28 countries and employs more than 15,000 people. Macquarie acts on behalf of institutional, corporate and retail clients and counterparties around the world.
Market Operations and Technology (MOT) provides technology and market operations to Macquarie's businesses. The Technology Division is responsible for the management of Macquarie's technology infrastructure, the support and development of existing business systems and the delivery and deployment of new systems, technologies and services.
Macquarie is seeking a senior level Application Risk Manager (ARM) to lead our technology risk management function for Americas and EMEA regions. The ARM role reports into the Head of Technology, Americas and EMEA, who is a member of the MOT Technology Executive. In addition, the role will also have a functional reporting line to the Head of iRisk.
The role has been created to assist the MOT Technology Executive on technology risk management matters, and to ensure that technology risk is addressed appropriately within the business. The ARM is responsible, on behalf of the MOT Technology Executive for ensuring there is an effective mechanism in place to:
- identify, record and assess operational risks;
- provide assurance that controls are working;
- monitor and report on operational issues, errors and breakdowns within the business unit
- escalate and report issues, where appropriate, outside the business unit.
Key Responsibilities
· Lead Macquarie's technology risk management function for the Americas and EMEA
· Develop and implement technology vision and strategy for high quality risk management
· Drive a culture of accountability through the Technology team
· Drive the process of assessing, identifying and designing mitigating controls.
· Identify and define critical controls and legal/regulatory obligations and ensure that appropriate assurance is performed
· Report and escalate technology risks
· Provide relevant technology risk advice to business management
· Manage and produce appropriate business-facing risk reporting
· End-to-end accountability to ensure the delivery and quality of all technology risk processes
· Provide a conduit into the global risk management teams
Qualifications:
- Computer or business degree essential
- A minimum of 5 years risk management experience within an IT environment
- Proven ability managing and delivering IT risk management processes in an enterprise environment
- Vast knowledge and understanding of legislative and regulatory requirements relating to banking and finance in an IT environment
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to tailor communications to both business and IT staff as required
- Experience leading and motivating small teams
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic and results-driven environment
Macquarie is an equal opportunity employer (M/F/D/V).