Senior Manager, Spain Chief Risk Officer - Financial Risk Management

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of leadership experience in risk management or a similar role;
• Strong business acumen with a risk-reward control perspective;
• Experience in interacting with regulators and familiarity with Spanish and Europe regulatory landscape and requirements;
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage multiple priorities under pressure;
• Fluency in English (verbal and written);
• Advanced degree in business, economics, engineering, or a related field is preferred.

 Leadership Skills:

• Proven leader who can build, inspire, and coach a team with a passion for the business;
• Excellent relationship and influence management skills with the ability to build productive relationships across teams and levels of seniority;
• Self-confident with a strong sense of integrity and the ability and willingness to challenge and be challenged;
• Proactive in identifying issues, delivering and escalating key findings, and advising on recommended solutions to correct issues or mitigate risks;
• Ability to communicate oversight findings to colleagues, business partners, and senior leaders;
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in Spain is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.    

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in Risk Appetite Framework (RAF) refresh process and seek to align International Legal Entities (ILE) Financial Risk metrics with Enterprise (as far as possible)
• Provide Financial Risk credible challenge to Legal Entity (LE) projects, strategies and in the Change Advisory Forums.
• Understand and speak to the Financial Risk profile of the LE based on aggregation of data and reporting
• Act as main point of contact for Financial Risk for LE regulator, Audit and ILE Leadership, and requests for Financial Risk program/results requests
• LE specific committee Financial Risk representative, and point of contact for Financial Risk at LE board meetings (as required)
• Own ILE R Financial Risk policies and frameworks, where required
• Influence Enterprise Financial Risk and Framework/Policies/Programs to ensure fit for purpose for ILE, and support ILE deployment of Enterprise Financial Risk programs
• Advise business on applicability and effective execution of Financial Risk frameworks
• Coordinate with enterprise Risk Lead on 2nd Line testing, and/or support ILE Financial Risk testing & provide output of ILE testing to Enterprise for awareness and risk aggregation
• Ensure appropriate communication of risks between ILE and Enterprise
• Support the ILE Chief Risk Officer (CRO) in their oversight duties aligned to the Risk Governance Framework and applicable polices
• Reviewing Issues and findings related to risk type impacting ILE, and overseeing effective remediation
• 2nd Line of Defense ILE oversight lead for Regulatory Change Managements relating to Risk Type
• Work with Enterprise team to develop LE metrics dashboard, including RAF metrics, aligned with applicable regs
• Review, approve and challenge applicable models impacting the ILE
• Lead a Financial Risk analyst

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of leadership experience in risk management or a similar role;
• Strong business acumen with a risk-reward control perspective;
• Experience in interacting with regulators and familiarity with Spanish and Europe regulatory landscape and requirements;
• Demonstrated ability to successfully manage multiple priorities under pressure;
• Fluency in English (verbal and written);
• Advanced degree in business, economics, engineering, or a related field is preferred.

Leadership Skills

• Proven leader who can build, inspire, and coach a team with a passion for the business;
• Excellent relationship and influence management skills with the ability to build productive relationships across teams and levels of seniority;
• Self-confident with a strong sense of integrity and the ability and willingness to challenge and be challenged;
• Proactive in identifying issues, delivering and escalating key findings, and advising on recommended solutions to correct issues or mitigate risks;
• Ability to communicate oversight findings to colleagues, business partners, and senior leaders;
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in Spain is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.