Job Description
Senior Vice President, Risk Strategy, New Business, and Control Initiatives Lead
Team Description
The Risk COO Office is in the Risk Management department within the corporate division. The team focuses on driving the enhancement of risk processes, strategy, technology, and resourcing to optimize the efficient delivery of the department’s strategic objectives.
Role
The successful candidate will fill the roles of Risk Strategy, New Business and Control Initiative Lead for Jefferies, reporting into the Global Risk COO.
Primary Responsibilities
The candidate will drive a number of key risk initiatives partner with stakeholders in Risk, Front Office, Technology, HR, and other Corporate Functions, including but not limit to:
- Lead risk strategies and key risk processes, e.g. New Business process within Risk, to effectively support the Risk department operations and the business growth.
- Develop the enhanced risk controls for Risk department and support the JSFI (US legal entity) control remediation actions.
- Collaborate with Technology stakeholders to support the BAU risk technology deliveries, with the focus on Rapid Response solutions.
- Lead ad-hoc risk initiatives and process enhancement as needed, e.g. risk limit process.
- Support Global Risk COO in business management, financial management, risk operations, and human capital initiatives as needed.
Role Specification
The following skills and experience are required for this role:
- 10+ year experience in COO and/or project management, ideally in a financial services risk management department
- Experience of critical risk processes oversight such as risk appetite, risk limit, risk controls, risk reporting, and new business process.
- Experience of risk technology delivery, business & financial management, and human capital management.
- Knowledge of risk management and financial products including fixed income and equities.
- Strong problem-solving mindset and keenly perceptive to identification of data or process weakness.
- Good communication, presentational, and stakeholder management skills; ability to translate between technical subject matters and more widely-digestible concepts depending on the audience.
- Comfortable working in a dynamic, changing and ever evolving environment.
Primary Location Full Time Salary Range of $175,000 - $250,000.
The salary offered will take into consideration an individual’s experience level and qualifications. In addition to salary, Jefferies offers, for eligible employees, an annual discretionary incentive and retention bonus, competitive employee benefits, including: medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Jefferies also offers paid time off packages that include planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays and paid parental leave.
About Us
Jefferies Financial Group Inc. (‘‘Jefferies,’’ ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us’’ or ‘‘our’’) is a U.S.-headquartered global full service, integrated investment banking and securities firm. Our largest subsidiary, Jefferies LLC, a U.S. broker-dealer, was founded in the U.S. in 1962 and our first international operating subsidiary, Jefferies International Limited, a U.K. broker-dealer, was established in the U.K. in 1986. Our strategy focuses on continuing to build out our investment banking effort, enhancing our capital markets businesses and further developing our Leucadia Asset Management alternative asset management platform. We offer deep sector expertise across a full range of products and services in investment banking, equities, fixed income, asset and wealth management in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East and Asia.
At Jefferies, we believe that diversity fosters creativity, innovation and thought leadership through the infusion of new ideas and perspectives. We have made a commitment to building a culture that provides opportunities for all employees regardless of our differences and supports a workforce that is reflective of the communities where we work and live. As a result, we are able to pool our collective insights and intelligence to provide fresh and innovative thinking for our clients.
Jefferies is committed to creating and sustaining a diverse workforce and encourages applicants from all backgrounds to apply. This includes applicants from historically underrepresented groups, including women, racial and ethnic minorities, members of the LGBTQ+ community, military veterans, and individuals with disabilities or who are neurodiverse.
Jefferies is an equal employment opportunity employer, and takes affirmative action to ensure that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, pregnancy, age, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, genetic information, reproductive health decisions, or any other factor protected by applicable law. We are committed to hiring the most qualified applicants and complying with all federal, state, and local equal employment opportunity laws. As part of this commitment, Jefferies will extend reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, as required by applicable law.
