Embedded Risk Executive Director

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We are committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

 

Pay and Benefits:
 

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive

• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location

• Pension / Retirement benefits

• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).
   

The Impact you will have in this role:

Being a member of the Clearing & Securities Services Team, the Embedded Risk Manager strengthens the role of the first line of defense by challenging product management and general management of risks, including its effort to identify, assess, respond to, and report and monitor risks. In this role, the Risk Manager challenges management's assessment of internal control effectiveness by ensuring management's adherence to control testing framework, issue management framework (including self-identified issues), and identified issues resulting from audits or regulatory exams, and partners with management on risk response strategies (mitigate, control, accept, remediate, etc.) to ensure the strategies sufficiently address identified risks, whether internal or external. This role serves as an Embedded Risk Manager supporting Digital Assets initiatives, ensuring emerging technology and market risks are appropriately identified, mitigated, and communicated across the organization.

 

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the production and maintenance of the CSS Risk Assessments, in addition to the supplemental monthly and quarterly risk reports for each of the respective Legal Entities.

• Monitoring and managing of key risks in the existing business lines and new products to ensure that the highest quality and most relevant risk data is captured, aggregated, analyzed, and reported as part of the overall risk assessment process.

• Execution of the risk management framework, including the identification, assessment, monitoring, and reporting of risks associated with applicable business area in alignment with the enterprise strategic priorities and performance management framework, and the Corporate Risk Framework Policy.

• Effectively communicates risk mitigation plans, trade offs, and residual risk positions to executive leadership and governance forums, with a particular focus on emerging and complex risks.

• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to mitigate, monitor, and escalate risks appropriately, including the timely resolution of incidents.

• Works with the New Initiatives Office (NIO) and Product managers in the development of the new offerings to gain reasonable assurance that the necessary controls are in order and that all pertinent scenarios that may impact the initiative have been thoroughly reviewed.

• Issue and Action Plan life cycle management (i.e. Engagement on the creation of MSIs, ensure actions plans optimally remediate issue, monitor timely remediation progress, and review of issue and action remediation, and oversight of the closure process for sustainability).

• Monitor the monthly Issues and Action Report (i.e. MSI Metric requirement) and assess issues resulting from Audits to determine if they should have been self-identified.

• Complete the Annual Sustainability reviews for both internal (direct/indirect) and external sourced action plans.

• Supervise the timeliness of Issues and Actions and establish critical issue protocol for items at risk for being past due.

• Perform review, challenge, and ensure consistent workflow quality control of issues both self-identified, as well as those resulting from risk assessments (include lessons learned and scenario analysis), and risk incidents.

• Perform quality review of Process, Risk, and Control data to ensure GRC foundational elements are periodically refreshed to reflect current procedures for oversight and consistency.

• Oversee the execution of Business Management and service providers testing of internal controls, provide review and challenge of test scope, test methods, test procedures, and evaluation of results.

• Deliver periodic risk management and control training to Business Management and support teams.

• Liaise with Governance, Risk, and Compliance Program to adopt key risk management objectives as they are pursued and enacted.

• Lead the Regulatory Reporting process and requirements with key partners for timely and accurate submissions.

• Act as metrics and reporting for management risk reporting (including Board and Risk committee materials).

• Mitigates risk by following established procedures, spotting key errors and demonstrating strong ethical behavior. 

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. ** 

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 15 years of related experience.

• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience.

   

Talents Needed for Success:

• Working knowledge of digital assets/Web3 primitives (networks, wallets, custody, oracles) and enterprise integration patterns; familiarity with Ethereum/Besu,  Stellar, Canton, and vendor ecosystems such as Fireblocks or Blockdaemon is a plus. 

• Experience in tokenization of securities, digital asset custody, or cryptocurrency, Web3/Blockchain infrastructure (e.g., hosting and operating nodes, wallets, smart contracts design), and emerging financial technologies.

• Keen partner engagement with the ability to navigate and influence complex matrix organizations.

• Build and maintain relationships with key collaborators locally, regionally, and globally as appropriate.

• Be a change ambassador and drive forward improvements.

• Proactive and laser focused on cultivating a risk mentality.

• Execution and delivery focused in a fast-paced environment.

• Collaborate with the team and all 3 lines of defense.

• Not afraid to effectively challenge the status quo.
   

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

 

With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC’s subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC’s Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at www.dtcc.com or connect with us on LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork.  When you join our team, you’ll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It’s the chance to make a difference at a company that’s truly one of a kind.

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