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About the Role

This is a visible role with international scope, supporting the execution of the platform’s risk agenda across a complex, fast-evolving business. The successful candidate will help strengthen the business risk framework across Global Payments & Trade by enhancing risk transparency, governance effectiveness, and first line execution. This role offers the opportunity to influence how risk is managed across a strategically important platform at the heart of BNY’s client franchise.

Responsibilities

Partner with the Global Payments & Trade Head of 1LOD Risk and Controls Management and senior leaders to support execution of the platform’s risk strategy.
Lead the development of executive reporting, dashboards, and governance materials that provide clear insight into business risks, key issues, and strategic priorities.
Drive effective first line governance across leadership forums, risk reviews, and control committees, with a focus on transparency, ownership, and follow-through.
Oversee issue and escalation management, coordinating cross-functional responses and delivering clear, decision-oriented updates to senior stakeholders.
Identify emerging risks, recurring themes, and opportunities to strengthen the control environment, governance model, and management information framework.
Support process and control enhancement across payments and trade workflows, including remediation oversight, evidence management, and audit or regulatory readiness.
Build strong partnerships across the first, second, and third lines of defense to reinforce consistency, accountability, and a strong culture of risk ownership.
Contribute to team leadership through mentoring, high standards, and active support of a strong-performing environment.

Requirements

Strong domain knowledge in payments, transaction banking, cash management, trade finance, or a related wholesale banking environment.
Proven experience and strong understanding of risk governance, operational risk, issue management, control frameworks, and audit/regulatory engagement within a complex, global, and regulated organization.
Demonstrated ability to translate complex operating and risk information into clear, executive-level reporting and actionable insight.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing capability, with the credibility to engage effectively across senior business and control stakeholders.
Strong analytical capability, including experience with Excel, Power BI, or Tableau.
Excellent communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to operate with pace and discipline in a matrixed environment.
Strategic, credible, and execution-focused personal style.
Comfortable navigating complexity, challenging constructively, and bringing clarity to ambiguous issues.
Combines intellectual curiosity with strong delivery discipline and a clear commitment to strengthening risk management in support of business progress.

Skills

Excel
Power BI
Tableau
SQL
Alteryx
Python

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Director
Senior risk professional

About the Company

BNY is a global financial institution.