Risk Manager, Investor Services

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What You Can Expect At BBH:

If you join BBH you will find a collaborative environment that enables you to step outside your role to add value wherever you can. You will have direct access to clients, information and experts across all business areas around the world. BBH will provide you with opportunities to grow your expertise, take on new challenges, and reinvent yourself—without leaving the firm. We encourage a culture of inclusion that values each employee’s unique perspective. We provide a high-quality benefits program emphasizing good health, financial security, and peace of mind. Ultimately we want you to have rewarding work with the flexibility to enjoy personal and family experiences at every career stage. Our BBH Cares program offers volunteer opportunities to give back to your community and help transform the lives of others.

Brown Brothers Harriman's Enterprise Risk Management (“ERM”) division is seeking applicants for a Risk Manager, Investor Services. This is a key role in the Investor Services Risk Management team which supports the Investor Services line of business on a global basis to deliver on  our mission; to strengthen and protect the firm and its clients by: (i) Establishing a global framework for identifying and anticipating risks to the Firm; (ii) Supporting our lines of business to execute our program of measuring, managing, and monitoring those risks; and (iii) Driving a culture of risk awareness, transparency and escalation.

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading and supporting risk and control initiatives for the proactive identification, assessment, monitoring, measurement, and mitigation of key operational, financial, reputational and strategic risks throughout the Investor Services line of business. The role will give the successful candidate the opportunity to operate on a global basis within the ERM Investor Services Risk Management team acting as a central point of reference on key risk and control matters as they relate to the Investor Services line of business.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing and enhancing the ERM Investor Services Risk analytics framework ng, across the Investor Service pillar. Developing a framework to identify control-related themes including an overview of findings from Internal Audit, Compliance Monitoring Program and external audit reviews, in addition to management self-identified control weaknesses and control weaknesses identified through operational incidents and near-misses. (part of 1st bullet)
• Partnering closely with ERM Operational Risk on firmwide tools, initiatives and risk-transparency, mitigation and control initiatives.
• Promoting risk transparency by identifying, assessing and escalating trends, control weaknesses and supporting the development of sustainable solutions for the management of risk in the business.
• Promoting and supporting the risk management tools, including the Firmwide Risk Event Database and Risk and Control Self-Assessment process to assist in causal analysis and corrective actions of risk & control matters. After 2nd
• Analyzing operational incidents to understand root cause and ensure appropriate corrective actions and identify areas of shared (horizontal) risks in other products.
• Leading and performing targeted risk/control reviews of Operational processes/workflows. Present findings and recommendations. Monitor/Track corrective action plans, analyze trends and assess root causes re: audit/regulatory findings, risk and control self-assessment gaps and risk events.
• Participating and providing risk guidance in training efforts, working groups and projects including targeted control reviews, to ensure that the appropriate risk mitigation is applied to business initiatives and operating arrangements.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 8+ years relevant industry experience is required
• An analytical and enquiring mindset with a drive towards continuous improvement
• Ability to effectively engage and communicate globally.
• BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience required.
• Experience working in the financial services industry, Operational Risk & Control, Accounting, or Audit experience a plus, with experience conducting or managing external audit Assurance reviews within a large accounting practice a distinct advantage

Knowledge & Skills         

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including presentation skills.
• Strong interpersonal, relationship, collaboration and influencing skills
• An ability to