Risk Manager
Full time role
Permanent role
Role based in Chartered Accountants House, Dublin
Chartered Accountants Ireland is Ireland’s leading professional accountancy body, representing over 30,000 members around the world and educating 7,000 students. The Institute aims to create opportunities for members and students, and ethical, sustainable prosperity for society. An all-island body, Chartered Accountants Ireland was established by Royal Charter in 1888 and now has members in more than 90 countries. It is a founding member of Chartered Accountants Worldwide, the international network of over one million chartered accountants. It also plays key roles in the Global Accounting Alliance, Accountancy Europe, and the International Federation of Accountants.
Institute Values
The Institute seeks to ensure an environment based on its values of Innovation with Ambition, Collaboration for Impact, Speed and Simplicity, Trust, Inclusion, and For Tomorrow, For Good. Candidates should be able to demonstrate how these may apply to them in the role for which they are applying and how their previous experience is relevant to them.
Summary of the Role
The Institute is committed to establishing and maintaining a robust enterprise risk management framework that supports the ongoing management of risk in accordance with its risk appetite statement. The Institute’s updated risk management policy sets out the process by which risks are identified, assessed, mitigated, monitored, and reported. In this role, which reports to the Finance Director, you will have responsibility for ensuring the effective implementation of the Institutes ERM framework across the business. The successful candidate will perform the role of risk management subject matter expert for the business to ensure risk management is performed in line with procedures. The successful candidate will provide risk management support across all Institute functions which are undergoing major change meeting the evolving needs of student and members.
Key responsibilities
Responsibility for ensuring the effective operation of the Institutes risk management framework by proactively leading the process to identify risks and opportunities that have the potential to impact on the business and strategy.
Undertake top down risk reviews with Leadership Team, including strategic risk management horizon scanning.
To provide assurance that risk management is being conducted effectively to enable the achievement of the strategic goals and objectives of the business.
Provide the delivery of effective reporting of risk and the status of mitigations to stakeholders.
Provide independent advice, guidance, challenge, and oversight of management actions to manage the level of risk.
Liaison with internal auditors which includes working with business departments and technology teams regarding any gaps and/or internal audit findings to ensure timely resolution.
Facilitate the implementation of Key Risk Indicator (KRI) reporting within the business units to enable a more proactive approach to risk management.
Support the establishment of new operational processes and standardisation and streamlining of existing processes to support Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) around critical vendors.
Collaborate with business departments and project teams during the procurement process for new outsource contracts to ensure clear definition of deliverables.
Liaise with and provide subject matter expertise for Directors and Heads of Function to ensure that third party risk management is effectively performed within their areas of responsibility.
Business continuity planning – identify risks that can affect the Institute’s operations - implement safeguards and procedures to mitigate the risks.
Implement a process of cycle testing to ensure these safeguards and procedures work.
Design and implement a review process to make sure that the plan is up to date.
Attendance at relevant governance meetings
Other projects as assigned by your line manager.
Required competencies and personal profile:
The successful candidate needs to have both the technical skills as well as the communication and soft skills to be able to foster trust with team members, other departments, senior management, and the governance layer.
The successful candidate should have:
A relevant business degree, and will hold a professional qualification in Accounting, Audit and/ or Risk Management.
Extensive experience in the management of risk in a complex environment and will be able to perform effectively in challenging and changing circumstances.
An advantage would be a strong background in risk management, notably the implementation and embedding of risk frameworks and related tools.
Experience in a regulated entity and/or background in major projects would be an advantage.
Simplicity, creativity, problem-solving, and customer centricity are key personal attributes to succeed in the role.
Excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to clearly articulate and present strategic content to the leadership team and boards.
Self-starter, self-motivated disciplined and assured individual who is performance driven.
It's important that you have excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to clearly articulate and present strategic content to Senior Management and audit committees.
Flexible work Arrangements
The Institute is seeking and encourages applications from experienced candidates who may be looking for flexible work arrangements. If such arrangements are being sought please bring these to the attention of your interviewer.
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Please contact Dave Riordan on 01 6377251 or dave.riordan@charteredaccountants.ie
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