Operational Risk Manager

About us

The Titan Group provides a broad range of services across the whole wealth value chain – from financial planning, investment management through to platform, trading, settlement and custody services. Its strategy is to be able to offer modular, incremental services to its clients allowing them to adjust their business models as and when they choose to. As part of this Titan is also an active acquirer of UK based asset managers and other wealth related businesses.

Global Prime Partners (GPP) is a subsidiary of Titan Wealth. GPP is an FCA regulated investment firm that provides:

· Custody services to predominantly discretionary fund managers (DFMs) and independent financial advisors (IFAs)

· Clearing and settlement services mainly on an agency basis for its DFMs and IFAs

· Trade execution services mainly for its DFMs, IFAs and institutional clients

· Utilising the same core infrastructure, GPP also serves a significant number of institutional broker-dealers and institutional investor clients.

Job responsibilities

• Overseeing the day-to-day management of the Operational risk team.
• Developing risk processing maps to support the development of risk and control and self-assessments.
• Assist with the implementation of reporting and processes improvements.
• Support the CRO in the development of the enterprise -wide risk management framework.
• Support the CRO in the management of the operational risk management framework, including but not limited to the management of associated policies and procedures, the RCSA process, risk incident management, risk assurance work, KRI reporting.
• Support in the delivery of the ICARA and associated workflows, including recovery plans, stress testing and wind down plans.
• Assist the CRO in the development and management of management information for the risk committee and Board.
• Supporting the business in the management of the operational resilience framework.
• Support the business sin the management of the 3rd party risk framework.
• Assess and embed new technologies to help in the development of the risk framework to support the company growth.
• Any other duties in line with the level and scope of this role.
• Adhere to consumer duty.

Requirements

• Knowledge and experience of developing and managing operational risk frameworks.
• Knowledge and experience of developing and managing Enterprise-wide risk frameworks.
• Have experience of working for an FCA regulated investment firm and knowledge of risk methodologies both to meet FCA requirements and for internal risk management purposes.
• Knowledge of clearing and custody systems and controls that generate the information for risk calculations and reports.
• An understanding of the FCA’s prudential risk framework for investment firms.
• Previous management experience of small risk team, ideally with experience managing international teams.
• Enjoy working as part of a closely-knit team.
• Be comfortable working with junior and senior staff in different departments across the business.
• Good analytical and written skills – experience of writing policies and procedures would be an advantage.
• Good/advance knowledge of Excel, Powerpoint and similar tools.
• Ability to identify issues, propose solutions and follow up their implementation.
• Appropriate attention to detail and a willingness to ‘roll up one’s sleeves’ and prepare reports, spreadsheets as required.

Our employees are talented people, distinguished by excellence. You will be able to demonstrate a willingness to embrace the Company values of:

· Professionalism - how we treat our clients and colleagues.

· Trust - embrace innovation and adapt to change.

· Innovation - dare to create and don't fear failure.

The Titan Wealth Group is firmly committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for everyone who works with us, regardless of their race, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, physical ability or disability, or political affiliation. We believe that having a diverse team allows us to create the best possible outcomes for our clients and team members. We strive to provide equal opportunities in all aspects of the workplace with respect to recruitment and career advancement, pay and benefits, training and development opportunities and other job-related activities