Assistant Manager - Risk Management

General responsibilities:

Risk Management
-       Manage the country risk management and maintenance of risk management.

-       Responsible for the leadership, innovation, governance, and management necessary to identify, evaluate, mitigate, and monitor the company's strategic and operational risks at country, business units, and functional levels.

-       Develop and maintain governance, risk management, standards, and practices driving towards maturity in risk management and capabilities at the country level.

-       Represent risk management and compliance on corporate or enterprise-wide projects or initiatives.

-       Work collaboratively with corporate, business units, and external stakeholders in all areas of risk management and compliance.

-       Responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of Business Continuity Management (BCM) initiatives for the country driving towards a higher level of resiliency in line with business requirements.

-       Support the governance and oversight of process level / internal control self-assessment, deficiency remediation, and management certification of effectiveness in compliance with Swiss regulatory requirements as necessary.

Compliance Support
-       Provide support for the Compliance team in all Compliance projects.

Internal Control
-       Responsible for identifying control risk, addressing, mapping, and identifying the poorer internal control process to mitigate the risk and ensuring that these procedures are followed and implemented.

-       Prepare a mapping of FA’s processes and relevant controls and establish and maintain a comprehensive set of written standard operating procedures (SOP) covering processes within FA as well as processes involving FA.

-       To maintain a system for periodical review of the activities versus the SOPs.

-       To support the management in the coordination of corporate internal control activities (e.g. internal audit, ICS) as well as with external auditors with respect to internal control matters.

-       To analyze and outline existing procedures and works flows as well as developing them and creating efficiencies and enforce controls along with the flow.

Work Experience:

Minimum 2 to 3 years’ experience in a similar role

Education:

Degree or professional qualification in Accounting/Finance or a related discipline

Functional Skills and knowledge:

·      Demonstrate sound knowledge and understanding of the business and industry

·      Demonstrate sound knowledge and application of local/international accounting standards, principles, and practices

·      Proven hands-on experience in SAP accounting applications is an advantage

·      Demonstrate advanced research and analytical skills

·      Demonstrate proficiencies in office productivity tools (e.g. Excel, Word, and PowerPoint)

·      Demonstrate fluency in English (both written and spoken)