Overview

Alan & Grant – Our client, a leading Asset Management firm offering wealth creation opportunities, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Head, Risk & Compliance

Job Location: Lagos

Job Responsibilities

  1. Stakeholder Management: Build valuable relationships with strategic stakeholders, and assemble coalitions, to support organizational goals.
  2. Manage Enterprise Risk Management Framework: Lead the development and deployment of an Enterprise Risk Management framework, integrating all aspects of risk across the organization.
  3. Lead Risk Assessment: Lead the development and deployment of strategic risk parameters and metrics (i.e. losses and incidents, key risk exposures and early warning indicators), support the development of analytical systems and data management capabilities to support the risk management function. The Position Holder is also responsible for coordinating regular risk assessments across the organization.
  4. Manage Risk Management Policies and Processes: Lead the development and continuous improvement of the organization’s risk management processes, and policies, in line with identified best practices, and organizational fit, in order to mitigate the impact of risk events on the organization.
  5. Risk-Based Capital Allocation: Lead the allocation of economic capital to business activities based on risk, and optimize the organisation’s risk portfolio through business activities & risk- transfer strategies.
  6. Develop Risk Culture: Drive the organization’s risk management readiness through communication and training programs, risk-based performance measurement & incentives, and other change management programs.
  7. Compliance: Ensuring compliance with all extant regulatory directives, rules, circulars, as well as legislations, applicable to business, including working with various teams where such compliance activities are to be carried out by teams other than the Compliance team.
  8. Internal Control: Lead the proactive identification and analysis of emergent risks to the organization, design appropriate mitigations, and implement accordingly.

Job Requirements

  1. Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university
  2. Professional certification in finance and/or risk management from a recognized professional body (e.g. CFA, CGMA, ACCA, ICAN e.t.c)
  3. Minimum of 10 years of work experience in similar role with 3 years at senior management level responsible for functional oversight

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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