Location: Baghdad
Job Type:
Permanent
Closing Date:
2025-06-04
About vacancy
mselect is looking to hire a Trade Business Risk Manager for an international banking client in Baghdad, Iraq. Candidates must have a minimum of 3-5 years’ experience of relevant experience. Fluency in English and Arabic is a must.
Job Purpose
The Country Trade & Cash Business Risk is entrusted to ensure that the Trade & Cash teams (front to back) in the Country operate in full compliance with all Country and Group policies and local regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities
Requirements
Qualifications:
*Only applicants meeting the strict criteria outlined above will be contacted as part of the shortlisting process.
Job Purpose
The Country Trade & Cash Business Risk is entrusted to ensure that the Trade & Cash teams (front to back) in the Country operate in full compliance with all Country and Group policies and local regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensuring Operation Units’ standards and roadmap abide by Group operating principles, policies and procedures as well as Country Addendums and Enterprise Risk Management Framework (“ERMF”)
- Ensuring that the execution of Operations’ functions is fully compliant with statutory regulations, laws, guidelines
- Support Cluster, Business Risk in the overall effective and proactive management of Operation units’ risks and control gaps
- Act as the voice, eyes and ears of the Cluster Head, Trade & Cash Business Risk for all matters related to Risk for the Country
- Oversee the effective execution of controls within the Country (front to back), including identification of gaps and remediation of issues, elevating residual risk where appropriate
- Create and maintain complete, accurate and targeted metrics to allow the COO, the Cluster Head of Business Risk Management for Trade & Cash and Business Head to constantly assess the control environment and residual risk profile
- Effectively manage the entire Risk Management agenda for Trade & Cash within the region, along with ensuring targeted Front to Back peer reviews, and the proactive rippling of peer review and audit findings
- Carrying regular dialogue with the audit team to be informed of results of reviews and audit activity
- Work with Country teams and Groups to drive hubbing of control checks where feasible, ensuring continued country oversight and ownership of rubbed checks and processes
Requirements
Qualifications:
- University Degree from an accredited institution
- Operational Risk/Risk Management/Compliance certification preferred
- Excellent accuracy and attention to detail
- Strong analytical skills
- An excellent communicator, able to build strong relationships with internal and external customers
- A strong ability and desire to work as and be part of a team
- Able to think laterally/solve problems
- Fluent in English & Arabic
*Only applicants meeting the strict criteria outlined above will be contacted as part of the shortlisting process.
