Risk and Controls Specialist

Management Level

G

Business Division: Retirement Solutions

Business Function / Department: Risk and Control

Job Title: Risk and Controls Specialist

Reporting to (Job Title): Risk Management Business Partner

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ India began its operations in 2014 as a Global India Captive Centre for Equiniti, a leading fintech company specialising in shareholder management. Within a decade, EQ India strengthened its operations and transformed from being a capability centre to a Global Competency Centre, to support EQ's growth story worldwide.

Capitalising on India’s strong reputation as a global talent hub for IT / ITES, EQ India has structured the organisation to be a part of this growth story. Today, EQ India has evolved as an indispensable part of EQ Group providing critical fintech services to the US and UK.

EQ’s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

The Risk and Control Specialist will play a key role in risk management within EQRS. The key purpose of the role is to deliver business ownership for the identification, mitigation, monitoring and control of operational risk.

Ensuring ongoing adherence with risk and controls across a variety of operational teams, remain compliant within all aspects of risk framework and control activity. The role encompasses risk and controls, consistency of process and making sure key risk indicators are well-defined and incidents are well managed.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

• Driving a strong Risk Management culture.
• Act as mentor for junior Risk Management staff, supporting their development and ensuring the value they add to EQRS and respect from clients.
• Effective monitoring of operational risks through collating the KRI metrics, with escalation of emerging risks where necessary.
• Maintain, update and assess risks and controls within the Risk Management system.
• Supervise daily activities of the team.
• Provide reporting to the Risk Business Partner; ensuring that issues that have a significant business impact are recorded.
• Support operational colleagues to mitigate risks
• Monitoring/Managing and escalating Risk actions.
• Incident Management and reporting to Risk Business Partner.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships between the Operational teams and appropriate colleagues in own and other business units.
• Maintain awareness of regulatory and industry developments and how these may create risk challenges for Retirement Solutions.

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills and behaviours:

• Strong leadership qualities, acting as a role model to the team and other colleagues.
• Proven management capability, setting clear targets and expectations.
• Practical experience of operating a risk management framework within operations.
• Strong influencing skills and an ability to operate effectively within a risk matrix management framework.
• Good analytical and problem solving skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Efficiency in managing priorities and adapting quickly to change.
• Ability to work calmly under pressure and deliver to tight deadlines.
• Excellent IT skills, including use of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and corporate systems

• Agile working according to business requirements.

Being a permanent member of the team at EQ you will be rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:

• 3 days of additional leaves on & above statutory requirement along with 2 days of voluntary leaves to pursue the CSR initiatives
• Business related certification expense reimbursement
• Comprehensive Medical Assurance coverage for dependents & Parents
• Cab transport for staff working in UK & US shift
• Accidental & Life cover 3 times of concerned CTC

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.