Risk Management Coordination Team Lead

The individual's primary job responsibilities are to coordinate risk management activities including committee management, relations with auditors and regulators and other area across CUSO related to group companies such as CM and SI.

The individual is expected to appropriately escalate risk-related matters in a timely manner to the Head of Market Risk Planning and the CRO of CM/SI.

Manage committee governance for entity level and AD level risk commitees
1. Collaborates on developing and enhancing market risk management and risk governance committee frameworks for CUSO.
2. Coordinates planning and producing of risk committees including owning agenda items, focal topics, and BAU items.
3. Liaises with stakeholders across stripes and other departments to produce committee material in a timely and efficient manner.
4. Curates material from stakeholders across stripes and other departments to develop clear, concise and impactful slides for efficient committee/meeting operations.
5. Manages and tracks action items from committees, holding owners accountable to agreed timelines.

Facilitation of Internal and External Oversight Requirements
1. Leads exam and monitoring and testing management from internal audit and control departments.
2. Leads exam and periodic review management from external regulators, such as FRB, NYDFS, NFA, CFTC, FINRA, etc.
3. Manage deliverables and actions items required oversight.
4. Manage remediations related to oversight findings.

Issues Management and Tracking
1. Manage comprehensive list of issues for market and liquidity risk across CUSO. Issues include regulatory issues, audit issues and management self-identified issues.
2. Engage with issue owners to track remediation activities.
3. Promptly escalate potential remediation delays

Knowledge
1. Familiarity with relevant risk concepts and related valuation concepts (e.g. VaR and stress-testing standards, counterparty exposure estimation, documentation and reporting approaches)
2. Understands the broader picture of how subsidiaries fit into SMBCAH /CUSO and the regulatory requirements facing various entities.

Communication and Leadership
1. Excellent communication skills, leadership and relationship-building skills to work with internal departments, affiliates, Head Office and regulatory bodies.
2. Expert ability to work collaboratively with internal risk management colleagues and risk management leaders across all subsidiaries and globally.
3. Strong reasoning ability; understands complex situations, people and systems needs against backdrop of managing a risk management environment.
4. Strong analytical skills; great attention to detail.
5. Strong project management skills; ability to work independently.

Preferred Previous Work Experience:
* Work Experience: 10+ years of experience in risk governance or closely risk-related role.
* Language Skills: Business fluency in English (Japanese is preferred)
* Software Systems / Programming Languages: Working knowledge of VBA, and Microsoft Office Suite

Preferred Education/Licenses/Certifications/Registrations:
* Education: Required - BA / BS

Other Skills, Abilities and/or Training:
* Ability to manage multiple responsibilities at once by focusing on one task while keeping track of others.
* Ability to understand, communicate with, and effectively interact with people across cultures, especially with Expats coming from Japan.

D&I Commitment

Responsible for fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion, holding leaders accountable for creating an inclusive environment through awareness and practice of equity in recruiting, developing, and promoting diverse talent.