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SEBA International Limited

Head of Risk Mgmt Compliance and Risk Operations (AAR 80617)

Risk Area:	All Risk Areas
Job Category:	Managerial
Location:	Long Island City, New York
Salary Range:	Competitive
Job Type:	Permanent
Job Description:	The Company is one the world's largest provider of credit cards. The Company is the largest consumer business within this organization. They employ more than 32,000 employees at more than 30 sites across North America. They meet the diverse needs of their customers and partners with a breadth of products and services unmatched in the industry. The Company’s strategic focus is to accelerate organic growth via investment in high growth sectors such as, partner programs, travel/affluent markets and small business lending, and leverage their core capabilities to expand the boundaries of their business including health care, cross-affiliate sales and other initiatives.
Skills/Experience:	Position Summary: The individual in this role is responsible for 2 core functions within risk management that are critical to delivery of our strategies with quality. The first is to operationalize our strategies and policies in all credit cycle areas including: new account acquisitions, portfolio growth (ECM), Credit Early Warning (CREW), Fraud Early Warning (FEW), and Collections. This requires a strong foundation in risk management to ensure quality execution of policies and operations expertise to optimize the trade-off with productivity and speed of execution. The second core function is compliance and control- an increasingly critical component in this environment of heightened regulatory scrutiny. This function exists to ensure that Branded Cards credit policies and practices conform to all regulations and global policies. An additional extension of this function is reviewing for proper execution of policies within Operations. This area will also coordinate all regulatory and audit activities related to the Risk Management team. Qualifications Business and Technical Requirements - Extensive experience in a credit risk operations environment with a comprehensive understanding of requirements for Fraud, Acquisitions, ECM andCollections policy execution - Strong orientation around quality control techniques, regression testing and productivity management - Strong overall knowledge of the credit risk management function and techniques used to manage credit losses through policies and procedures. This is critical towards developing operational solutions that will meet control requirements. - Working knowledge of credit policy management and processes to communicate requirements and ensure compliance by both risk management functions and Operations - Experience with regulatory and internal audit/compliance processes. Ability to lead regulatory and audit relations and represent the risk mgmt organization appropriately. - Understanding of operation review techniques to ensure that all possible gaps are identified and remediation steps are taken. - Familiarity with operational reporting and MIS used to assess compliance, effectiveness and productivity trade-offs - Bring innovation to risk operations and compliance areas. Drives change toward developing best in class processes Leadership Competencies - Capability and experience with establishing strategic vision and driving change towards achieving goals in alignment with business targets - Sr. executive interactions- can present credibly to both large and small groups - Strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence at all levels of mgmt. Displays flexibility to work well with varying personal styles - Developed ability to effectively challenge risk policy areas, Operations and other functional counterparts to ensure business requirements are met with most efficient use of resources. - Develops strong working relationships that foster cooperation and respect - Superior team leadership skills. Able to matrix manage effectively - Strong track record for attracting and developing high performing policy execution and oversight talent - Capable of managing a team of 30+ managers and analysts. Able to performance manage and continually elevate performance standards
Responsibilities:	Key Responsibilities - Manage strategy and process for execution of ECM and Acquisitions policies. Strategize on work-around solutions with Operations - Manage implementation of CREW and Collections strategies to mitigate credit losses - Manage execution activities related to FEW analyst Fraud case reviews. Educate on new trends and executing targeted strategies with quality to mitigate fraud losses - Oversee compliance and control function for Risk Management. This includes an internal review function to ensure operational compliance with risk policies and regulations - Build and lead a high performing policy execution and compliance team. Leverage expertise and experience to develop a pipeline of talented leaders and enhance morale - Develop and maintain a strong working relationship with operations to ensure alignment with objectives, timely response and cooperation. Ability to matrix manage across risk management and operations - Interactions with Senior levels of management to gain support for initiatives and escalation of issues Key Collaboration Points - Senior in-business leadership - Head of Global Risk and Regional Risk and various functions within Global Risk - Heavy interaction with all Operations leadership and functional areas - Close interaction with Risk policy areas and other cross-functional areas - Government regulators and internal auditors
Company/Agency:	SEBA International
Contact:	Contact: Robert M. Iommazzo Managing Partner Telephone: +1-212-370-7003 riommazzo@sebasearch.com Kristina Ng Sr. Associate Telephone: +1-212-370-7014 kng@sebasearch.com email: riommazzo@sebasearch.com
Website:	www.sebasearch.com

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