Technology Platform Risk Partner, Swift
Global payments network
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Global payments network
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To make international transactions instant, frictionless and interoperable.
Role
Who you are
- 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 the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
Salary benchmarks
Our take
SWIFT was founded in 1973 to serve as the bedrock of the international payments system. A cooperative society which is owned by its member financial institutions, it is a vital piece of the global financial infrastructure, securely transmitting payment instructions between over 11,000 institutions in almost every country. SWIFT handles half of all international transactions, on average 40 million every day.
SWIFT's only direct competition in the traditional cross-border payments sector are bodies such as China's CIPS and Russia's SFMS. Yet, lacking the trust and membership of SWIFT these are unlikely to make serious inroads in the international payments sector.
In recent years the competitive landscape for international transfers has been disrupted by the large-scale uptake of cryptocurrency. SWIFT has not been immune, facing competition from high-speed blockchain payment networks such as Ripple. However SWIFT has moved quickly to adapt, introducing SWIFT Global Payments Innovation (gpi) to increase the speed of transactions to nearly that of its competitors but with greatly enhanced visibility. It is also researching blockchain technologies, partnering with companies like Chainlink to trial its own cross-chain protocols that will allow it to continue to thrive in the new financial landscape.
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Company benefits
- 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
Company values
- Ethics
- Integrity
- Trust
Company HQ
La Hulpe, Wallonia
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Leadership
Javier Perez-Tasso
(CEO, not founder)Has held numerous roles at SWIFT, becoming CEO in 2019. Prior to this, was Head of Product Manager, CMO and Chief Executive of the Americas and UK Region.
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