Senior Risk Officer in 1st Line FC Business Customers Risk Advisory

Are you a trusted advisor skilled in providing professional support and advice through effective engagement in identifying, assessing, and communicating financial crime risks?
Are you a trusted advisor skilled in providing professional support and advice through effective engagement in identifying, assessing, and communicating financial crime risks?

The objective of the Senior Risk Officer role is to act as a trusted advisor to our stakeholders assisting the bank’s Business Customers segment in complex and principal cases as well as for the strategic initiatives. To provide professional support and advice by effectively engaging in identifying, assessing and communicating Financial Crime risks.

As a Senior Risk Officer, you´ll be a part of 1st Line of Defence and serve as a valuable contributor to the bank´s fight against financial crime. Your tasks will include establishing good, collaborative relationships with Business Customer stakeholders, support with proactive and well-documented risk assessments based on data and holistic analysis, provide appropriate challenge when required and advice on all financial risk crime typologies.

To succeed in this role, you demonstrate being a great team player, eager to learn and develop and contribute to the overall tasks in the team. You are comfortable in a high-paced environment and are capable of adapting to sudden changes in priorities. You have pride in delivering as a team and do you outmost to contribute to a good team spirit.

Depending on your experience, you may be offered a different seniority of the role.

You will:

• Advise on Risk Appetite: Provide guidance on risk appetite in individual complex and principal cases, as well as on the bank’s current and strategic business products and services
• Maintain and Enhance Risk Culture: Foster a strong risk culture to reduce risk exposure and damages within the defined risk appetite/tolerance; this includes providing analysis and insights for business decisions to ensure compliance
• Report and Analyse: Write reports, gather material, and analyse themes for risk-related decisions, including inherent and residual risks. Provide insights to patterns and suggest risk principles and mitigating actions
• Utilize Expertise in Financial Crime: Use solid knowledge within financial crime to mitigate risks and enhance Danske Bank’s controls. Act as a Financial Crime Risk SME in projects and contribute to the financial crime risk culture, ensuring risk appetite is implemented in processes
• Design and Improve Controls: Provide input for designing and executing controls, continuously improving safeguards, and delivering timely risk assessments with recommendations for mitigating actions
• Make Decisions and Documentation: Present cases for decisions at relevant councils or committees and make final decisions in complex and principal cases. Formulate assessments into professional documentation such as memos and presentations
• Evaluate Cross-Bank Perspective: Provide a segment view across the bank, ensuring a comprehensive approach to risk management and advisory
• Make Customer-Specific Assessments: Conduct FC risk typology assessments and customer-specific assessments for both potential and identified risks, providing competent and valuable financial crime advisory services

About you:

• At least 5 years of relevant experience in the financial sector (financial crime risk management, investigations, AML/CTF, fraud, sanctions, legal, or compliance)
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Law or similar
• Solid understanding of financial crime risk, regulatory AML frameworks, and banking products and services
• Understanding of the customer lifecycle from an AML/CTF risk perspective and good knowledge of the AML regulatory framework and requirements
• High degree of integrity and a holistic mindset when required
• Ability to work effectively and independently, prioritize and structure workload, and coordinate tasks to meet deadlines
• Sharp and confident decision-making abilities with solid analytical and investigative skills
• Ability to assimilate new information quickly, process it, and translate analysed risk into business risk understanding
• Proven stakeholder management and excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills, including fluency in Danish and English

Together, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees.

If you have any questions, find me @LinkedIn: Rikke Maria Bækgaard.

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