Manager - Enterprise Risk Management

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• Dubai, United Arab Emirates Business Unit: Internal Audit
• Function: Internal Audit Employment Type: Regular
• Partner with business to continually assess and identify potential risks and ensure that risks are mitigated effectively by implementing appropriate policies, procedures, training, systems and controls.
• Partner with AMR BCM Core Group and Functions to ensure monitoring and effective implementation of BCM priorities of the business.
• Ensure compliance with all ERM related policy requirements applicable for the company.

Description

Job Specific Skills / Key Responsibilities

• Support in implementation of risk management policy, framework, and initiatives across all business and support functions.
• Track trends and developments in macro business environment, competitive environment and regulations that may impact company’s business and its operations.
• Lead identification of potential strategic, operational, financial and compliance risks thorough ongoing risk assessments with relevant business leads.
• Launching annual risk and BCP survey and presentation to LT for alignment of top priorities.
• Support development of risk management action plans and track progress of these action plans to address key risks.
• Collaborate with risk champions to update control self-assessments.
• Collate, aggregate, and help in presentation of the residual risk profile and KRI dashboard of the organization to the management on a periodic basis.
• Ensure Risk Appetite and tolerance is updated annually in line with business goals, priorities and emerging risks.
• Refresh Risk KPIs for risk owners and risk champions.
• Support the ERM leader in ensuring insightful, quality reporting regarding risks and mitigating controls / remedial actions is provided to the Audit Committee, and BoD as required, on periodic basis.
• Facilitate risk management knowledge and best practice sharing across the company by contributing in risk management training initiatives and programs.
• Enhancing organization wide risk awareness through initiatives including risk awareness communication and campaigns on a regular basis.
• Support monitoring of the company’s Business Continuity Plans and QHSE risks and practices.
• Support maintenance of Risk Registers, Business Continuity Plans and deployment of Risk Management tools as required.
• Work on Annual BCM Agenda including working with BCP plan owners to develop or refresh BIA/BCP as applicable, and ensuring annual BCM testing.
• Validate preparedness and enable effective response to disruption/crisis by facilitating initiatives like live crisis simulation drill or BCM reflection day.
• Ensure risk management and tracking of additional risk dimensions relevant to the company such as regulatory compliance, statutory reporting and public disclosures.
• Develop and maintain engagement with internal stakeholders and ensure that consistent risk management processes are implemented within the Company.
• Provide refresher training on SOPs, risk procedures and control self-assessment for each risk owner and champion during the risk refresh cycle.
• Coordinate and support internal and external audits related to ERM and BCM.
• Adept in leveraging AI and technology including prior experience and expertise in using GRC/ERM Tools, performing scenario planning and sensitivity analysis.

Qualifications, Experience & Skills

Academic and professional qualifications

• Professional degree such as CA or an MBA from a reputed institute is preferred. Additional risk management qualifications would be an advantage.

Experience

• Strong working knowledge of risk management and previous experience working with risk function with total 4-8 years of experience.
• Risk Consulting experience with Big 4 or similar consulting firms, would be an advantage.
• BCM implementation experience with strong knowledge of BIA, BCP and BCMS Lifecyle as per ISO 22301
• Experience in Food Industry (Manufacturing/Distribution/Retail) would be an advantage .

Communication

Internal Communication

• Excellent communication and presentation skills to engage with senior stakeholders.
• Strong relationship management and team working skills – ability to productively and collaboratively engage stakeholders to drive risk management agenda.
• Proven ability to do root-cause analysis and identify solutions. Meticulous attention to detail.

External Communication

• Experience in managing audits as required