
Senior Consultant - Risk Identification and Assessment
- Pune, Maharashtra
- Permanent
- Full-time
The Risk Identification and Assessment Senior Consultant is a key position within Northern Trust’s enterprise risk management function, charged with the responsibility of supporting embedding and refining the risk identification and assessment processes across the lines of defense. As a key role in the 2nd line of defense, this Sr Consultant reports to the Risk Identification and Assessment Director and collaborates extensively with both the 1st and 2nd line teams. The core responsibilities encompass the maintenance of the risk identifications standard, the implementation of an emerging risk and material risk identification process, and the enhancement of risk assessment standards, including maintaining risk rating and materiality scales. This role involves collaborating on initiatives to ensure comprehensive risk identification, driving the detection of material and emerging risks, maintaining and advancing risk inventory technology capabilities, and conducting impact assessments to apply materiality thresholds. The Risk Identification and Assessment Sr Consultant supports the adherence to the aforementioned standards and is key in fostering a culture of risk awareness through training and monitoring adherence across the lines of defense.Major Duties
- Support design, implement, and sustain standards for risk identification, emerging risks, risk assessment across lines of defense through training and adherence monitoring
- Establish and maintain risk ratings and materiality scales used in identifying top and material risks
- Support identification of top, material, and emerging risks
- Maintain risk inventory technology capabilities
- Keep abreast of industry trends, regulatory changes, and emerging risks to proactively identify potential threats and opportunities and evolve the risk management framework to align with changing business and regulatory practices
Experience: 8+ years of direct risk management framework experience at a large-scale financial services organization preferred, including enterprise risk management experience
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience in designing, training, and monitoring enterprise risk identification and assessment practices, supporting effective implementation and sustainability
- Proven capability in high-quality execution, including both independent execution, as well as supporting cross-functional stakeholders to drive change • Familiarity with ServiceNow or similar Governance risk and Compliance tool, a plus
- Ability to accurately identify, escalate, and drive actions to mitigate priority risks
- Ability to think strategically, creatively, and logically to solve problems and drive risk management enhancements
- Ability to develop strong relationships and build stakeholder alignment on key initiatives
- Ability to lead projects from conception through execution and sustainment, leveraging sound change management principles and leveraging technical capabilities to arrive at the optimum solution
- Strong communication skills, including verbal and written communications to senior leaders and committees