Director Non-Financial Risk Banking

Job Title:

Director – Non-Financial Risk Banking

Job Description:

Non-Financial Risk (NFR) Role

NFR is seeking an experienced Director to serve as the primary Non-Financial Risk Coverage Officer for the Banking businesses. The role will provide independent oversight, effective challenge, and strategic risk advisory support to senior business leaders across Corporate Banking, Commercial Banking, Treasury, Lending, and related support functions while promoting a strong risk culture and ensuring alignment with the firm's risk appetite, regulatory expectations, and risk management objectives.

The successful candidate will bring a strong understanding of Banking businesses, products, client lifecycle activities, operating models and control environments, coupled with expertise in non-financial risk management and governance.

Principal Duties may entail all or some of the following responsibilities

• Serve as the primary 2LoD Non-Financial Risk coverage lead for the Banking businesses, providing independent oversight, effective challenge, and strategic advisory support to senior business leaders, Business COOs, and control functions.
• Promote a strong risk culture across Banking activities by ensuring non-financial risks are identified, assessed, managed, monitored, and reported in alignment with the Firm's risk appetite, regulatory expectations, and risk management objectives.
• Partner with business management and control functions to assess the risk implications of business growth, new products, strategic initiatives, organizational changes, and business change initiatives.
• Provide effective challenge over non-financial risks arising from Banking activities, including client onboarding, lending and credit administration processes, treasury activities, transaction processing, operational resiliency, technology dependencies, data quality, third-party relationships, and related control environments.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of risk management practices, controls, issue remediation, and risk event responses, ensuring material control gaps are identified, escalated, and remediated in a timely manner.
• Prepare and present risk assessments, emerging risk insights, trends, and governance materials for senior management committees, risk forums, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Collaborate with NFR team members to enhance KRIs, KPIs, analytics, risk management practices, and new risk initiatives that support the evolving regulatory environment and strengthen the overall NFR framework.