Senior/Chief Business Risk Manager - Continuity Risks Oversight

Job ID: 20596 

Would you like to be part of ensuring that Nordea plans to deal with difficult situations, so we can continue to function with as little disruption as possible? We are looking for a colleague to join our Business Continuity and Crisis Management Team in Nordea – a vibrant, diverse and international team of 20 individuals who work together and are part of ensuring that Nordea remains a safe, resilient, and trusted bank for our customers. 

At Nordea, we’re committed to being a partner our customers and society can count on. Compliance and integrity go hand in hand. Joining us means you’ll have an impact on how we do banking – today and tomorrow. So bring your ideas, skills and unique background. With us, you’ll be in good company with plenty of opportunities to collaborate, grow and make your mark on something bigger.

About this opportunity

Welcome to the Business Continuity & Crisis Management (BCCM) team. In this role, you will oversee BCCM risks and issues and advise on how we control, mitigate or avoid them. E.g. how should we handle identified risks and issues? And which actions or controls should we then implement to mitigate those risks and issues? This is where your expertise is needed to contribute with a risk and issue management perspective, so we can prepare the organization for potential operational disruptions while ensuring ensure continuity for Nordea.

What you’ll be doing:

• Drive continuous oversight of risks and issues in BCCM
• Advise on risks and issues and help decision-makers in understanding consequences of decisions
• Participating in risk assessment and issue mitigation activities, supporting and guiding the areas in keeping a comprehensive end-to-end risk mitigating activities overview
• Engage as a sparring partner in alignment and assessment of processes and frameworks
• Facilitate and contribute to forums and interact with stakeholders from the three lines of defence as well as risk reduction plan project teams 
• Bring insight on the risk, issue and control portfolio and support in understanding the impact and linkage this has with other remediation initiatives.

The role is based in Malmö; Gdynia; Helsinki; Stockholm; Warszawa.

Who you are

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.  

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• A strong communicator with good collaborative relationship-building skills to ensure commitment and engagement among stakeholders
• Inquisitive with a sharp eye for identifying key elements in complex issues whilst maintaining the big picture
• Excellent in prioritising tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Resilient to handle changes while adopting a structured approach
• Flexible in your ways of working and adjusting to the needs of the organisation
• A good communicator to ensure clear and thorough documentation 

Your experience and background: 

• Experience from working with non-financial risk projects and/or regulatory implementations in the financial sector or in another heavily regulated industry
• Knowledge within business continuity management and crisis management is a merit
• Experience from working in a “three lines of defence risk and control environment” and knowledge of working with audit/assurance functions is considered as advantage (e.g. Group Internal Audit or 2nd Line of Defence)
• Demonstrated ability to effectively interface with a diverse, global and cross-functional teams and large-scale projects.
• Ability to influence across functions and enterprise-wide.

 

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

 

Next steps

Submit your application no later than 25/12/2023. 

At Nordea, we know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable workplace. We deeply believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us better at serving customers and communities. So please come as you are.

 

Please be aware that any applications or CVs coming through email or direct messages will not be accepted or considered.

 

Only for candidates in Sweden: For union information, please contact finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACONordea@nordea.com.

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