Director Risk & Compliance Americas

Director, Risk Americas

The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world's largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers.

Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services.

With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide. Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.

That's why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply 'empower' you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.

Take the lead and we'll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game. And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.

For our business, for clients, and for you

Job Specification

The Director, Risk Americas is a senior member of the Risk Function, responsible for the local implementation of, and compliance with, the Apex Risk Management Framework across the Americas region.

The role is a collaborative business partner, supporting the Managing Director and respective Country Heads, in proactively managing risk by identifying, assessing and reporting both risk and controls (adequacy and effectiveness). The role provides timely, accurate and insightful risk MI and briefings to senior management in the region that enables the business to effectively manage their material risks to within the Group's risk appetite.

As Risk inherently draws attention to our own potential and actual failures, shortcomings and mistakes, an overarching key deliverable will be the proactive promotion of Apex behaviors and values and the championing of a positive, transparent risk culture.

• Proactively provide expert advice, support and challenge to the regional MD, Country Heads and Operations in the day to day management of risk and controls in the region ensuring risks are identified, mitigated and managed in a proportionate and transparent manner.
• Actively brief the MD and relevant Country Heads on risk and control matters occurring across Apex, taking forward appropriate actions if the region / country is potentially exposed.
• Manage local teams of risk managers in Brazil and Chile.
• Provide timely, consistent and simplified risk and controls management expertise for the region, promoting ownership and accountability.
• Work with staff in the regions to implement the Apex Risk Framework, including Risk Assessment and Policies and Procedures, in a proportionate and pragmatic manner, escalating where not fit for purpose or challenges in delivering to milestone dates.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure quality Business Continuity plans are in place and tested, all in line with Global Policy.
• Provide risk advice, challenge and input to Client Acceptance governance in the region and ensure adherence to policy and process.
• Provide day to day regional incident, breaches, issues and errors support and delivery of the supporting processes, ensuring compliance with relevant policies and procedures, including timely escalation as required.
• Champion risk based / risk appetite thinking and considerations in business strategy and commercial decisions, promoting a no surprises, no blame culture.
• Develop and maintain an appropriate level of understanding of regional products, processes and controls to ensure Risk Management activities meet and exceed service level expectations of clients.
• Provide Regional input to the development of, regional understanding of and implementation of all relevant policies and procedures, obtaining business input into practical implementation.
• Work with Risk Reporting / Risk Governance, contributing to the development and production of the regular Risk Reports for inclusion at various senior management committees such as Group and Local Audit and Risk Committees, local entity boards and ad hoc MI as required.
• Assist in identifying, designing and reporting a suite of appropriate Key Indicators (whether Risk, Control or Performance, leading and lagging), aligned to Regional and Group risks. This will include presenting and reviewing the position with local stakeholders and risk owners at LARCs and Boards.
• Provide insight and timely trend analysis to identify potential emerging issues, sharing with other Regional Risk leads where appropriate.
• Work with Group Risk Framework and Operations to provide relevant data and MI to support Risk Assessment process, identify and assess Risk exposures, controls and control gaps, and Residual Risk exposures against Risk Appetite.
• Work with Operations to support local remediation of global or local issues.

Skills Required :

We pride ourselves in our commitment to fostering a connected and inclusive culture, all our opportunities at Apex have five (5) days in office requirement.

Salary ranges from USD $150,000.00 USD $200,000.00 plus additional discretionary yearly bonus based on corporate and individual's performance. Compensation within this range is dependent on individual's skills, experience and qualifications.