ODCR Business Partner - Temporary 12 months

At ING we encourage you to `do your thing`, to do more of what you love. This is also the way we articulate our promise to offer frictionless banking.

Active in Romania for more de 25 years, ING Bank pioneered the local banking industry, bringing innovation in the life of its customers. Currently, ING is the 4th bank in the local markets, based on the assets and is a universal bank with 1,6 million clients from three business segments: individual clients (Retail), SMEs and Mid-Corporate clients and Wholesale Banking.

Join us! Together we`ll empower people and organizations to realize their own vision for a better future.

The Operational Design Control and Resilience, Products Control & Resilience team, as part of COO Domain, is seeking to find an ODCR Business Partner to come on board. If you are looking for a position with a significant contribution and impact towards 1st LoD Non-Financial Risk by supporting business lines on strategic development and implementation under challenging environment where your work can make impact, then we are looking forward to meeting with you.

Mission:

Your work activities will mainly focus on providing E2E support to 1st line business for non-financial risk management, including but not limited to risk identification and assessment, mitigation, monitoring, and reporting acting like a linking pin for all stakeholders involved (local and global) enabling an effective and efficient Non-Financial Risk Management.

Your day to day:

• Playing an integral role in the 1st Line of Defence, supporting business lines in the identification and management of non-financial risk (operational, regulatory and compliance) across BAU activities;
• Having high impact and visibility across a range of business teams, helping to build maturity on NFR area;
• Leading ad-hoc and periodic reviews of the Banks’ products and services to ensure maintenance of our risk profile and compliance with policy and regulatory obligations;
• Active involvement in the monitoring of non-financial risk activities and support management in the development of remediation plans (if case); identify, initiate, and manage actions to mitigate risks and to strengthen controls;
• Facilitating gap analysis, risk assessments and monitoring the remediation of gaps related to (new) global policies, control standards and regulatory requirements;

• Responsible for supporting business on designing effective process controls for all new and changing processes and operations (controls embedded by design);

• Support business on implementing annual calendars for 1st LoD NFR processes from allocated areas:

- testing and monitoring KCT calendar approved (internal and outsourced testing);

- alternative monitoring technics identification and implementation;

- ensuring the timely and proper documentation of risks and controls in relevant applications.

• Prepare reporting and communications for key stakeholders/ employees from the allocated business areas for the above-mentioned activities (eg Business management team meetings);
• Managing ad-hoc requests related to any of the NFR processes in Products Control and Resilience Department responsibility aiming to support business and management on reaching non-financial risk compliancy;
• Participate on Operational Design Control and Resilience (ODCR) global communities calls and share discussions outputs with ODCR Lead/Manager for further decisions;
• Participate on global calls together with the relevant business area following-up the communicated NFR related activities;
• Interact effectively with 2nd Lines and global roles specialists related to specific NFR tasks;
• Continue focus on efficiencies and suggest/implement improvements.

What you bring to the team:

• You're a great communicator, winning the trust of team members, internal customers, and external suppliers;
• You can adapt quickly to a changing environment; juggle competing priorities and combine a sense of urgency with due care and attention to details; you are a hands-on type of person;
• You have a very good command of the English language, both verbally and written (mandatory);
• You can communicate in a clear way the why, what, when and how;
• You take initiative, pro-actively picking up tasks;
• You are organized, can provide structure, and maintain focus on the full picture;
• You have good understanding of Risk and ING, as well as of the drivers of our business;
• You are action oriented and have a passion for getting things done with pragmatic approach;
• You have a passion for learning and develop deep expertise, problem solving and a pragmatic and commercial approach;
• Experience in banking environment with a sound knowledge of banking products and risk management, as well as understanding of key regulatory and compliance requirements would be a plus;
• You have at least a Bachelor level of education.