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Are you passionate and experienced in the field of risk management within the financial sector? If so, we are eager for you to join the Business Operational Risk and Control team.

Who are we?

Business Operational Risk & Controls is a team within the Large Corporate & Institutions (LC&I) business unit, which serves our largest and most complex customers in Danske Bank Group and covers their needs from everyday banking to asset management. We are:

• First line of defense: Together with the Business we have a mandate to protect the bank and its customers
• Risk managers: We serve as an advisor and facilitator to the Business on risk-related issues, by assisting in identifying, evaluating, and mitigating risks
• Drivers of a substantial risk culture: We contribute to enhancing and maintaining a strong risk culture in LC&I that will result in reducing LC&I’s risk exposure and damages within risk appetite/tolerance
• Providing analysis and insight for business decisions: We create reports and analyses to assist the LC&I senior management in steering the operational risk and to stay within risk appetite/tolerance

What do we offer?

You will be part of a global team located in Lithuania and Denmark, which  gives you the opportunity to work with skilled colleagues with diverse expertise within risk management.

The global team and your local team leader will support you in your learning and development and encourage your suggestion to improve the risk and control environment, and drive change. Apart from gaining skills and knowledge through daily work, Danske Bank offers a wide range of professional training activities ranging from bank-specific knowledge and technical training to project management. An important part of your job is stakeholder management, and you will gain an extensive network across the Danske Bank Group.

Depending on your experience and knowledge, we may offer you a different seniority of the role. Currently, we are looking for 5 colleagues (different seniority level) in Vilnius to become members of this new team.

Due to summer vacation time your CVs will be reviewed during August. The priority will be given to the candidates who may start work asap.

Skills

We have different levels of role available. As our new colleague, you should match the following criteria to differing levels of experience:

• Bachelor, Master’s degree or equivalent in a business or technical field (e.g., finance, economics, maths, or similar)
• 2 years of experience as an operational risk manager in the financial sector or alternatively have experience from business risk management, business/product management or internal audit
• A positive and pro-active colleague who enjoys a high tempo cross-cultural team and embraces diversity
• A sense of curiosity and a desire to get to the root of the problem; a structured and analytical mind-set; the ability to be agile and suggest solutions
• Successful at owning and executing tasks, both self-directed and in teams, and seeing projects through to completion
• Strong written and spoken English skills
• Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Knowledge about areas within investment banking, transaction banking or asset management is a plus

Mission

As a Operational Risk Specialist, you will engage in various tasks and projects, in order to identify and evaluate operational risks. This includes:

• Engaging with the Business on risk assessments for new projects, and process changes
• Reviewing and providing recommendations in the New and Amended Product Approval process
• Acting as a Subject Matter Expert and sparring partner for day-to-day risk and control questions
• Assisting the Business in registering and mitigating operational risk events
• Preparing risk reporting for senior management
• Participating in risk-related projects
• Collaborating with stakeholders across the Group

We offer

We will ensure that exact salary offered for you will be based on your qualifications, competencies, professional experience and requirements for the corresponding job function (salary range from 2240 EUR to 3360 EUR gross EUR/monthly).

We care about your well-being and work-life balance, so we offer a whole package of benefits for you in addition! Check this out.