Enterprise Risk Management Officer

**Responsibilities**:
The RISQ Division's mission is to contribute to the sustainable and predictable growth of the SG Group by overseeing and independently challenging the objectives and strategies of the Business Lines. RISQ’s mission is to independently analyze, challenge, opine and monitor on the risk-taking activities of the Business Lines in order to get to the best possible outcome for the Bank. The RISQ division in the US supports all the activities in the Americas Region. This role falls under RISQs Enterprise Risk Management function which covers all risk types to which SG’s Americas operations (“SG AMER”) are exposed:

- Coordinate risk analysis reporting to risk committees, including SG’s Enterprise Risk Committee, Executive Committee’s Risk Committee, and SG’s Board of Directors Risk Committee;
- Establish, and monitor adherence to, Risk Appetite Statements for SG AMER and its business lines;
- Coordinate and enhance SG AMER’s risk identification and assessment framework, and conduct periodic risk identification and assessment campaigns;
- Coordinate and enhance SG AMER’s stress testing framework, and conduct periodic stress testing exercises;
- Oversee SG AMER’s Strategic Risk management and Environmental & Social Risk management, in a second line of defense role;
- Coordinate the Permanent Control framework in SG AMER;
- Organize and monitor SG AMER’s risk management framework, risk committees, and roles and responsibilities for all lines of defense;
- Ownership of the New Product Committee (NPC) Policy and coordination of related RISQ activities.
- Oversee SG AMER’s policies and procedures; and
- Contribute to the development and usage of a “Governance, Risk and Compliance” (GRC) information system architecture across SG AMER.

The Enterprise Risk Management function is responsible for identifying, measuring, assessing, monitoring, controlling, and reporting on all risks facing SG AMER. Enterprise risk management is a pro-active, continuous approach to risk management that provides SG AMER with a comprehensive, integrated view of its risks and enables management of risks across its operations consistently and in line with its business and strategic objectives.

The risk professional sought for this position will be a member of the Risk Appetite and Strategic Risk (RAS) team being part of the SG AMER Enterprise Risk Management Team, reporting to the Head of Risk Appetite and Strategic Risk (located in New York). He/she will also be part of the “Risk Automation & Innovation” functional group made of risk professionals located in Montreal, tasked with enhancing RISQ’s usage of relevant data and analytics to support risk management.

Day to day responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Ongoing maintenance of SG AMER’s Risk Appetite Statement including renewals (effective challenge, maintenance of metrics/limits, review & alignment to BL’s strategy, etc.). Support the maintenance of a control framework for the RAS metrics. Partner across the bank to strengthen the overall risk assessment and monitoring processes.
- Support all aspects related to enterprise-level Risk Committees, for assigned risk types, up to the Enterprise Risk Committee: assessment and challenge of contributions from stakeholders, review of key metrics, including breaches of risk limits and thresholds.
- Support the continued maturity and ongoing maintenance of tools/systems to support the enterprise in producing aggregate risk analysis reporting.
- Assist in maintenance and enhancement of key documents including: policies, procedures, methodologies, training.
- Assist in the development and enhancement of the “GRC” IT platform as it relates to other responsibilities.
- Support overarching initiatives such as the remediation of independent findings (Regulatory, Testing, Audit).
- Assist in efforts to raise self-identified issues and the remediation of existing issues.
- Contribute to risk monitoring efforts including enhancement, development, utilization of risk analytics.
- Support transversal topics such as Regulatory Exams, change-the-bank activities, systems design, and presentations to Senior Management both in SG AMER and at Head Office level.

As a member of the Risk Automation & Innovation group, the risk professional will also work with all RISQ teams to improve the efficiency of risk monitoring and enhance the development and usage of risk analytics.

**Profile required**:
**Competencies**:

- Strong presentation and excellent oral / written communication skills; experience in supporting the development of well-structured presentations for leadership.
- Effective interpersonal and influencing skills.
- Ability to interact with business lines, management and support functions and to provide effective challenge to members of business line and of risk management across the organization.
- Effective communication and analytical skills.
- Efficiency and ability to achieve