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About the Role
This is a business-facing role focused on understanding the organization, identifying material risks, and developing practical, commercial risk solutions in partnership with the business. The role also involves owning risk reporting and contributing to the evolution of the operational risk framework, documentation, and methodology.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the business to identify and assess operational risks, distinguishing material risks from process weaknesses, and maintain the risk register.
- Own the Firm's incident reporting process end-to-end, ensuring timely capture and assessment, challenging root causes, and tracking themes across the program.
- Conduct targeted reviews of processes and controls, assessing what could go wrong and how risk is managed, and deliver practical, commercial recommendations to the Head of OR.
- Oversee remediation actions, tracking ownership, target dates, and status, while challenging whether proposed actions address root causes.
- Own operational risk reporting (incidents, risk indicators, remediation status, and trends), ensuring it is decision-useful for management.
- Identify and help implement responsible AI use within the risk program, from risk identification to reporting, with appropriate documentation and governance.
- Build trusted relationships across the Firm, influence without formal authority, and reinforce a culture of risk awareness and transparency.
- Support administration and oversight of the Firm's background check program, including coordinating checks and maintaining records.
Requirements
- 8 – 10 years of experience in operational risk.
- A mix of first-line and second-line experience is preferred.
- Ability to identify underlying causes and patterns, and distinguish material issues from less significant ones.
- Naturally inquisitive; asks thoughtful follow-up questions and digs into issues to understand what happened and why.
- Understands business activities, assesses risk materiality, and translates stakeholder discussions into proportionate process or control improvements.
- Assesses the significance of issues, knows when escalation is warranted, and balances risk mitigation with practical business needs.
- Communicates risk matters clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing, translating detail into management-level reporting.
- Builds credibility and productive relationships across groups, including the ability to provide constructive challenge.
- Comfortable working with data and reporting tools to identify trends, develop risk indicators, and translate information into actionable insights.
- Self-motivated and comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy, proactively identifying where further analysis or improvement is warranted.
- Comfortable working across a broad range of risk topics and taking on evolving priorities and special projects as needed.
Skills
- Operational Risk Management
- Risk Identification
- Risk Assessment
- Incident Management
- Process Assessment
- Remediation Tracking
- Risk Reporting
- AI Enablement
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Background Check Administration
- Analytical Thinking
- Critical Thinking
- Communication Skills
- Data Analysis
- Reporting
- Ownership
- Initiative
- Adaptability
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8-10 years
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000-225,000
Benefits
- Discretionary year-end bonus
About the Company
- Soros Fund Management LLC (SFM) is a global asset manager and family office founded in 1973 with $28 billion in AUM.
- SFM serves as the principal asset manager for the Open Society Foundations.
- SFM operates with agility, decisiveness, and a long-term view, investing opportunistically across various strategies and asset classes.
- The firm fosters an ownership mindset, encouraging innovation, initiative, and continuous growth.
- SFM's impact is measured by both financial returns and adherence to values like environmental stewardship and social responsibility.
- Headquartered in New York City with offices in Greenwich, Garden City, London, and Dublin, SFM employs 200 professionals.