Chief Risk Officer at Bradfield Consulting Limited

Bradfield Consulting Limited is a professional service firm created to provide human resource solutions for organizations of any size. Our goal is to help our esteemed clients eliminate issues bordering on having incompatible or inexperienced employees. Our partnership begins from attracting the right employees, settling them well at work and ensuring that they are equipped to deliver on your goals.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Chief Risk Officer

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time

Job Objectives

• Provide central oversight of risk management
• Develop, maintain, manage and execute a comprehensive process for identifying, assessing, mitigating, monitoring and reporting on risks that may impact on organizational performance.

Responsibilities

• Provide central oversight of risk management while also accommodating individual risk process needs.
• Development and Continuous evaluation of the ERM Framework to ensure all risks are identified and adequately mitigated.
• Assist the Board Audit Committee in the formulation of policies and development of better controls
• Acting as an adviser to the organization to enable all strategic, management and operational tasks of the organization to be aligned to a common set of risk management objectives
• Preparing regular reports on the effectiveness of the risk environment for the Management and Board of Directors as may be required from time to time
• Present insights into the business’s emerging risk profile and its impact on business objectives based on market dynamics
• Provide board and management with risk impact estimations and business rationale
• Ensure loan book is of good quality - NPL is not higher than 3% and continuous strategy formulation to ensure good quality loan book
• Build a framework to manage and evaluate the risks around mission-critical processes/procedures especially risk assets.
• Evaluate organizational processes and procedures aimed at mitigating risks and improving organizational efficiency.
• Strengthen visibility into the dependencies between risk exposure, execution of strategic initiatives, and achievement of business objectives
• Create a culture of risk awareness within the organisation
• Stress Test and Portfolio report to Board & Management.
• Provide overall direction and leadership

Education and Qualifications

• B.Sc, M.Sc
• Professional certification in Accounting / Risk management
• 6-10 years experience in similar role in the financial services sector
• Knowledge of Corporate Governance and Accountability
• MFI industry experience will be an added advantage

Skills and Competencies:

• Excellent Analytical skills, Numerical skills and an eye for detail
• Excellent Interpersonal skills
• Strong competence in usage of Microsoft suite
• Sound Commercial awareness
• Strong appetite for Innovation and Technology
• Strong Planning and organizational skills
• Ability to understand broader business issues
• Strong Communication and presentation skills.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.