• Application Deadline:
• Position: Risk Specialist


• Job Type Full Time


• Qualification BA/BSc/HND


• Experience 4 years


• Location Lagos


• Job Field Finance / Accounting / Audit 
  

Job Summary

• The Risk Specialist will be responsible for identifying, analyzing, and mitigating risks across our organization.


• You will support the development, implementation, and strengthening of our company’s risk policies and framework.


• You will ensure that a consistent framework is in place to systematically manage the most significant risks. Additionally, you will support strategic projects through risk-based second opinion and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Risk Management Framework Implementation – Collaborate with relevant internal stakeholders to implement the risk management framework and related standards.


• Develop, monitor, and provide reporting on risk appetite statements and limits for operational and other risk categories.


• Risk Framework Development - Develop and improve risk identification, qualitative and quantitative assessment, mitigation, and monitoring for operational, emerging, and reputation risk frameworks.


• Ensure regulatory compliance with operational risk requirements.


• Risk Reporting and Management - Establish and manage reports to encourage transparency in information risk activities, projects, and initiatives. Coordinate, support, and supervise the proactive quantitative identification of main operational and emerging risks on a regular basis.


• Monitor action plans to detect delays or incomplete mitigation tasks proposed by the business lines.


• Risk Appetite Development - Support the development of the Operational Risk Appetite (tolerance levels and escalation limits). Escalate alerts and risk evolution to management.


• Risk Partnership – Create a fluid relationship to receive the alerts of new risks, controls failing,activity change, and new projects. Increase partnership with business units by regular participation in committees and projects.


• Participate in the provision of second opinion on operational and emerging risks on the Strategic Plan. Conduct regular training to management to increase risk awareness.


• Operations Resilience Support - Support the development, review, and implementation of Operational Resilience Policy.


• Ensure timely conclusion of the Operational resilience annual self-assessment.


• Support the development and monitoring of an action plan for Operational Resilience.


• Business Continuity Support - Support process owners in the development, review, and overall execution of the BIA process.


• Develop and deliver training to the BC Correspondents.


• Develop a consolidated BIA report, ensuring its validation and sign off by the BCM Sponsor.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Economic, Social Sciences or any related discipline


• Demonstrable experience of a minimum of 4 years


• Relevant understanding of risk management and corporate governance


• Good knowledge of security products


• Strong attention to detail