Junior Risk

**Company Description**
Natixis in Portugal is fully integrated in the global organization of Natixis, a French multinational financial services firm specialized in Asset & Wealth Management, Corporate & Investment Banking, Insurance and Payments. A subsidiary of Groupe BPCE, Natixis counts nearly 16.000 employees across 38 countries.

Based in Porto, Natixis Centre of Expertise mission is to transform traditional banking by developing innovative solutions for the bank’s business, operations and work culture worldwide, as a key driver of the company’s culture of agility and innovation. Teams of IT and Banking Support Activities work in an integrated, inclusive and transversal way, supporting all the business lines and country platforms.

Natixis in Portugal is the best combination of a “start-up mindset” with a large, solid structure. Its unique culture gives true meaning to a “beyond banking” personality: to be a real entrepreneur, self-challenging, ever striving to excel and go that extra mile.

Team presentation and main goal:
The Control & Risk (C&R) Management Team lies under Porto’s Compliance department. The team reports directly to the Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) and functionally to the Global Head of Operational Risk, Permanent Control & Regulatory Affairs.

The main goal of the C&R Management Team is to ensure that operational risks derived from (i) businesses and operations transferred to Porto by other perimeters and (ii) typical support functions locally in place, are effectively and efficiently mitigated through the proper implementation and deployment of a sound and robust control framework under the main responsibility of the local business/process owners.

Within the C&R Management Team, the Operational Risk & Control Framework Analyst identifies, assesses, and monitors all operational risks that may be derived from a business process or activity. He/She contributes to the mapping of the various operational risks. He/She investigates operational risk incidents and contributes to the

recommendations for corrective actions and their implementation. He/She establishes activity risk indicators and dashboards.

**Main tasks and goals**:

- Support the development and implementation of the risk & control framework for Natixis in Portugal in accordance with corporate guidelines and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Support the identification, documentation and analysis of the operational risks inherent to businesses and processes locally performed.
- Assess the established control framework and challenge the effectiveness and efficiency of the controls in place ensuring that, when applicable, value-adding recommendations are issued and escalated.
- Across all stages of the assessment process (i.e., planning, field work, reporting, follow up), effectively liaise with stakeholders at all levels, including Head Office Operational Risk Officers and Analysts, Business/Process (LoD1) owners, and regional counterparts, among others.
- Actively contribute to the monitoring of operational incidents, ensuring these are registered in the proper tools and (if needed) escalated via proper channels.
- Perform analysis of operational incidents and report findings and/or recommendations to the main stakeholders/management.
- Provide professional risk reporting to management, various committees and others whenever requested.
- Execute (LoD2) controls in coordination with the Head Office Operational Risk Department and support (LoD3) internal audits when required.
- Ensure that documentation is maintained in the designated repositories in compliance with internal policies and requirements.
- Support the Compliance Controls area as and when required.
- Effectively escalate all issues and other matters of interest to management.

**Qualifications**
- Degree/ Mater's degree in Economics, Finance or Business Administration (or relevant areas);
- +1 year experience in Business/process consulting
- +1 year experience in Banking/Financial Institutions
- Knowledge of Operational risk management
- Knowledge of Internal controls assessment
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- ** Fluency** in English (mandatory)**

**We will only consider English CV's.