Sr. Operations Risk & Control, Line Risk Mgr, VP

Credit Suisse is a leading global wealth manager with strong investment banking capabilities. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, we have a global reach with operations in about 50 countries and employ more than 45,000 people from over 150 different nations. Embodying entrepreneurial spirit, Credit Suisse delivers holistic financial solutions to our clients, including innovative products and specially tailored advice. Striving for quality and excellence in our work, we recognize and reward extraordinary performance among our employees, provide wide-ranging training and development opportunities, and benefit from a diverse range of perspectives to create value for our clients, shareholders and communities. We are Credit Suisse.

We Offer
The 'Senior Operational Line Risk Manager' role is within the Operations Control & Risk (OC&R) team, which advises, supports, and challenges Global Operations senior management who are responsible for the financial, reputational, and regulatory risks of Global Operations. Our vision is to drive the control culture within Global Operations, while helping our partners consistently align with all external regulatory and internal policy demands. This high-profile role, working with partners at the DIR & MD level, strives to evaluate & propose improvements to the control environment and provide challenge on various risk genres.
As a part of role, your responsibility includes:

• Prepare monthly Control Review Meeting materials with Global Operations senior management. This includes compiling the control pack, facilitating the meeting, working in partnership with the Global functional & regional line management team to provide independent risk challenge and ensure that all key risks & regulatory requirements are well understood, and relevant issues are raised
• Ability to influence structure of projects to suit Global Operations strategy and ensure areas of control weakness is avoided
• Review existing risk metrics and targets to make sure risk is being appropriately measured and look to define or develop new metrics/targets as necessary
• Develop and cultivate relationships with senior members of line management responsible for underlying process & supervisory controls and ensure valued activities are performed to understand & improve their control environment. Communicate and supervise identified risk issues and suggest/track appropriate corrective action
• Partner with line management to support Audit/Regulatory Examinations, internal RCSA (Risk Control Self-Assessment) and associated follow-up actions
• Work with line management to identify and ensure operational incidents are reported timely in the Firm's incident monitoring system and risk assess each event to ensure appropriate remediation action is taken. Perform thematic read across to ensure risk is mitigated across other processes
• Complete prioritized "Operations Risk Assessments" reviews as required. This includes but not limited to reviewing events/processes where there is inherent risk to identify potential control weaknesses and perform root cause analysis where required to ensure future mitigation of risks

Your future colleagues

Opportunity to join an impactful globally distributed team. We are a team of specialists where each member is encouraged to think critically, produce, and collaborate with colleagues to achieve a common goal across Global Operations.
We are a department which values Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) and is committed to realizing the firm's D&I ambition which is an integral part of our global cultural values.

You Offer

N/A - pending TWWW agreement

Credit Suisse is an equal opportunity employer. Welcoming diversity gives us a competitive advantage in the global marketplace and drives our success.