Director Financial Risk Coverage Fixed Income and Equity

Job Title:

Director – Non-Financial Risk Markets

Job Description:

Americas Risk Department

The Americas Risk Department, as a 2nd line of defense organization, provides common risk management oversight and services to all businesses and legal entities across the firms U.S. Operations. Effectively and efficiently managing risk on a consistent and holistic basis across all our businesses is critical to the firms success in the Americas as well as meeting regulatory expectations and requirements.

Non-Financial Risk (NFR) Role

NFR is seeking an experienced Director to serve as the primary Non-Financial Risk Coverage Officer for the Capital Markets businesses. The role will provide independent oversight, effective challenge, and strategic risk advisory support to senior business leaders across Fixed Income and Equities 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 Capital Markets businesses, products, trade lifecycle activities, Front Office operating models and control suites, 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 Capital Markets 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 Front Office 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 Capital Markets activities, including transaction execution, supervision, market conduct, trade processing, technology dependencies, data quality, operational resiliency, 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.