Risk Manager

Risk Manager

About Goodbody

Goodbody is a leading financial services firm, committed to serving and growing client relationships for 150 years. We are a full service, investment-led business offering wealth management, asset management, investment banking and private equity services. Our staff of over 400 work in offices across Dublin, London, Cork and Galway. We’re proud to offer prospective employees a professional, collegial work environment that encourages diversity of thought and background. Our reputation in the Irish market for putting customers first is as consistent as the company’s long-standing commitment to giving back to the communities that we work in.

About the Risk Manager role

There is an exciting opportunity to join our finance team in our Dublin office as a Risk Manager. This position provides the opportunity to gain full exposure to the Goodbody finance function. The candidate will hold a broad range of responsibilities across the financial control function within the department.

Risk Manager Accountabilities include: 

People Management and Development

• Integration of robust Risk Management practises into the Finance department
• Manage the department's risks and control through the Risk control assessment process
• Manage the operational risk incident process, including any regulatory requirements, policy breaches, operational risk events
• Working with management team and wider Finance team on building procedure and control universe and identify any potential gaps in existing procedures and controls.
• Accountable for annual review procedure approval cycle.
• Co-ordinate and drive enhancements to the design, articulation and implementation of a finance control environment (both preventative and detective controls, including the control framework in place to support regulatory and statutory reporting
• Work with the CFO to maintain and facilitate ongoing management of relevant artefacts to support demonstration of Reasonable Steps for relevant PCF roles, as prescribed within the Individual Accountability Framework.
• Complete quality assurance and manage engagement with assurance and audit teams across the three lines of defence. Where issues are identified, ensure that appropriate mitigating actions are agreed and tracked through to completion within agreed due dates.
• Support with regulatory and governance oversight, ensuring compliance with internal policies and procedures, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.

Qualifications and Experience 

• Minimum of five years' experience in an operational risk, business support, quality assurance or compliance focused role.
• Financial services / investment firm experience would be advantageous.
• Relevant third level qualification. 

Ideal Characteristics

• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with key stakeholders.
• Innovation - Proactivity and high levels of personal initiative.
• An appetite to learn and to deliver continuous improvement.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and strong MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel skills.
• Ability to multitask, prioritise, and work to challenging deadlines

Goodbody is focused on helping our employees thrive, and we do this by bringing to life our Employee Value Proposition (EVP) ‘Together we prosper’. Our firm’s purpose is to create long-term prosperity, and we cannot execute on our purpose without the right talent at Goodbody. To make sure we attract and retain industry-leading, passionate and inspiring talent, we’ve built a vibrant culture based on inclusion, opportunities to grow and a commitment to ‘do the right thing’, one of our core values. We live this by offering:

• Regular employee events through our universal inclusion programme fostering a sense of belonging and celebrating differences. And an ‘always on’ approach to social, financial, mental and physical wellbeing. 
• A benefits package that includes a generous pension scheme, educational sponsorship and health insurance, along with a hybrid working model to promote better work/life balance
• Opportunities to give back through sustainability initiatives, volunteering and on-site and online meetings with our charity partners

Goodbody is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace which values and benefits from the diversity of our workforce. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request please include a note in your application or email us directly at HR@Goodbody.ie

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Appointment to this role is subject to the candidate's eligibility to work in Ireland. Where agency assistance is required, our Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Goodbody by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this role. Goodbody operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the HR team will engage directly with our recruitment partners. 

Goodbody Stockbrokers UC, trading as Goodbody, is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. In the UK, Goodbody is also subject to regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority. Goodbody is a member of Euronext Dublin and the London Stock Exchange. Goodbody is a member of the group of companies headed by AIB Group plc.