SSGA ESG Risk Analyst, AVP

State Street • Boston, MA

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About The Position

State Street Investment Management is the fourth largest asset management firm globally. State Street IM Risk is responsible for risk oversight of $5 trillion of assets under management across all investment strategies. This is a senior analyst role within State Street Investment Management’s Enterprise Risk Management group (ERM). ERM team consists of 70 risk professionals located in various locations across US, EMEA and APAC. As a combined group, we are responsible for the identification, assessment, control and reporting of risk in five main disciplines: investment, liquidity, counterparty, operational, and model risk. This role will assist in coordination and execution of effective risk management programs aimed at governing, overseeing, and managing risks in support of the firm’s risk excellence goals. This role will support the firm’s growth strategy in a risk-controlled manner. Primary responsibility will be coordinating across risk disciplines to ensure the department’s compliance and alignment with corporate governance frameworks as well as communication with internal and external stakeholder. The successful candidate must be able to effectively influence teams to work towards a shared vision, manage various programs simultaneously, communicate articulately with stakeholders, and manage data and information.

Requirements

• High level of initiative, ownership, and ability to prioritize workload effectively
• Strong influencing, collaboration, and project management skills
• Solid analytical, interpersonal, organizational, and research skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to adapt and operate in dynamic environments, with ability to build key relationships
• Understanding of technology (e.g., internal platforms, data tools, portals, workflow, automation)
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, business, information systems, or related field
• Minimum 5 years relevant industry experience with solid working knowledge of investment management or finance field. Risk management, governance, or related function a plus
• Powerpoint, Excel, and Word proficient; experience with Tableau, Sharepoint, SQL

Nice To Haves

• MBA, CFA or FRM preferred
• Risk management, governance, or related function a plus

Responsibilities

• Support the overall Enterprise Risk Management program and framework of Investment Management and State Street
• Ensure ongoing compliance with corporate policies, standards, and guidelines
• Ensure the team maintains, reviews and updates appropriate business unit procedures and policies
• Lead manage responses to prospects and clients on Due-Diligence Questionnaires (DDQs) and Request-for-Proposals (RFPs)
• Assist in the development of regulatory and client presentations reflecting an overview and risks of the State Street IM business
• Oversee the team’s End User Development Tools (EUDT) inventory and ensure compliance with Policies. Assist the team in streamlining the inventory and tools to create a robust risk framework
• Help manage the team’s model risk governance requirements to ensure alignment with internal policies and standards
• Support data quality governance of critical report and BCBS 239 requirements, by ensuring an accurate inventory or critical reports and data-quality checks as required
• Collaborate effectively with Enterprise Data Governance and Risk Technology teams to develop technical lineage of critical data elements, design and configure DQ rules in data governance tool.
• Coordinate with risk asset class leads to design data quality rules for implementing effective controls and monitoring for risk data.
• Maintain and monitor data quality issue dashboard in order to escalate timely for resolution and reporting.
• Represent State Street IM Risk across relevant internal governance forums
• Provide periodic training to the team on governance requirements and best practices
• Support business unit’s Sustainable Investing remit inclusive of drafting enterprise risk inputs to disclosures for corporate reports, and assisting in reviews of overall disclosures
• Executing on key deliverables and independent projects with limited supervision

Benefits

• Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees