Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Responsible for conducting a Walkthrough-process and Sample-check to; (a) identify, assess, measure operational risks, (b) evaluate internal control systems efficiency and effectiveness, and (c) recommend practical treatments to tackle and monitor; current, emerging, and foreseen operational risk events.

Principal Accountabilities

• Draft Walkthrough-process and Sample-check assignments plan, and get it approved by the direct line manager.
• Review the functions operating policies & manuals, and highlight control weaknesses & inconsistency.
• Conduct Walkthrough-process and Sample-check to assess the adherence level to function's operating policies and manuals.
• Discuss findings and recommendations with respective function's management
• Issue reports and track the implementation of agreed upon controls.
• Assist in drafting the operational risk management framework & manual.
• Assist in reviewing the bank's activities operating policies, manuals, new products, and discuss recommendations, whenever is requested.
• Assist in disseminate operational risk awareness and risk management culture across the organization.
• Provide consultations to other functions, whenever is requested, in order to assist them managing their operational risks.
• Promote automation of Bank's activities, where applicable
• Represent operational risk management department in bank's projects or investigation assignments, whenever is requested.
• Support Operational Risk team in creating and accomplishing new initiatives and projects.
• Back-up staff to handle any other tasks assigned from time to time, such as; assist in activities of RCSA, KRI, KPI, and incidents root cause analysis, whenever is requested.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor degree in commerce / Economics / Finance / Accounting.
• CIA and CFE are advantages.
• 8 years of experience in Banking Operational Risk Management or Operations Internal Audit, at least 4 years as a manager role.
• Bilingual, English & Arabic is an advantage.
• Communicative, self-motivated, problem-solving skills, autonomous majority of the time, collaborative, committed, punctual, confident, creative, and details oriented