About the Role

The team
At SWIFT we punch above our weight. We are a company of +3500 diverse and talented people on a mission to innovate global payments.

And in the Risk team, we are committed to the same; we cherish diversity and excellence. Joining a team of risk experts and seasoned professionals, we are offering a unique opportunity to further your business experience and knowledge, to influence and help steer the evolution of our risk function.

The Risk Team is SWIFT's second line of defence and covers the full spectrum of Enterprise Risk Management across six broad domains:

1. Risk strategy: Risk appetite statements defining preferences for risk taking enable business sustainability and growth.
2. Risk taking: Risk considerations in business decision-making processes to achieve objectives.
3. Risk management cycle: Identification, assessment, measurement, response and monitoring of risks.
4. Risk reporting & insights: Risk reports, heat maps, key risk indicators.
5. Risk governance & culture: Risk governance structures, employees' role in managing risks, responsibilities and authorities for taking and managing risks, risk management maturity model, coordination and communication with first line of defence risk practitioners and Internal Audit.
6. Risk oversight management: Risk oversight relationships, risk management adequacy assessment, current and future assessment of capacity to meet Board and Overseers' expectations.

Responsibilities

We have significantly matured over recent years, successfully evolving the Risk Team. We have bold ambitions going forward. In response to the increasing demands of our external environment and our organisation’s strategic objectives, we are expanding our footprint and broadening the scope of our deliverables. This is a truly exciting time to be joining our team.

The Technology Platform (TP) Risk Partner will:

• This role will partner with our TP function, joining an existing team of TP Risk Partners.

• Build and foster meaningful relationships with a wide range of stakeholders internally. This includes Executive and Senior Management, Agile Tribes Leadership, Product Owners and risk practitioners across all domains in our community – banking, securities, fintech, financial market infrastructures. The purpose is to embed the Risk Team further into SWIFT and develop a stronger risk mindset, whilst increasing greater ownership of internal controls.
• Facilitate, drive and provide clear and strong second line challenge on complex operational risk and control assessments and self-assessments.
• Collaborate to develop continuous improvement initiatives related to the SWIFT ERM framework, policies, processes and tools.
• Promote operational risk culture by providing training, advice and challenge in line with SWIFT’s ERM framework.
• Translate the risk assessment results into insights and language appropriate for executive and senior management, for governance bodies (e.g. Board Directors) as well as for external stakeholders.
• Ensure the follow-up of major business projects and verify how these will impact the organisation in terms of risks.

Qualifications

Are you:
• Self-motivated and highly organised, able to manage competing priorities and deal flexibly with ambiguity?
• Proactive, curious and creative with a growth mindset and the perseverance to tackle the most challenging goals?

• Comfortable providing strong independent challenge?
• A relationship builder and team player, able to engage and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and subject matter experts?
• At ease to follow procedures/policies for “what” and be creative for “how”?

Do you have:
• A university degree?
• Experience in fintech, financial industry, market infrastructure or technology?
• A keen and demonstrable interest in technology risk management and enterprise risk management?
• An extensive experience in operational risks, or compliance?

• An interest in developing technologies, such as cloud, AI, robotics or quantum computing?
• Experience in contributing to organisation transformation programmes?
• Excellent communication skills with an emphasis on active listening skills and the ability to tailor your style and tone to your audience (fluent English speaker)?
• Stakeholder engagement and team player skills, able to engage and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and subject matter experts?

              

              

What we offer

We put you in control of career

We give you a competitive package

We help you perform at your best

We help you make a difference

We give you the freedom to be yourself

              

We give you the freedom to be yourself. We are creating an environment of unique individuals – like you – with different perspectives on the financial industry and the world. An environment in which everyone’s voice counts and where you can reach your full potential regardless of age, background, culture, colour, disability, gender, nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran/military status.