Operational Risk Associate

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).
  
  

The Impact you will have in this role:

Operational Risk & Resilience (ORR) establishes protocols for analyzing, reporting, escalating, and mitigating operational risks. ORR works with business unit management and support functions to help them manage their operational and emerging/systemic risk exposures, establishing protocols for analyzing, reporting, escalating, and mitigating these risks.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Enhance existing reporting processes, including developing new KRIs where applicable.
• Track key metrics used for management reporting of Operational Risk processes while working at mastering knowledge of process. Suggest improvements to processes to increase efficiency.
• Perform risk assessments and monitoring activities and assist with the development and implementation of ORR frameworks. Assist with special projects.
• Produce and maintain reporting and metrics for both internal and external stakeholders. Analyze, interpret, and present data to internal team. Recommend suggestions for improvements.
• Possess strong knowledge of processes across functional areas within the team. Provides training and guidance to more junior staff.
• Risk identification and analyses of DTCC's products and services to identify and map trends that may have potential implications.
• Produce concise data analyses and writing on macroeconomic and market trends and emerging risks, and verbally articulate analyses to senior management.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Facilitate operational risk activities and collaborate to enhance processes.
• Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills, active engagement in meetings and thought leadership. Provide guidance to internal collaborators on processes and address issues and inquiries timely.
• Provide technical subject matter expertise for Operational Risk functions.
• Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately.
• Keep abreast of industry and world issues and developments that potentially have systemic implications for DTCC and our clients.
  
  

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience
  
  

Talents Needed for Success:

• Fosters a culture where honesty and transparency are expected.
• Stays current on changes in their own specialist area and seeks out learning opportunities to ensure knowledge is up to date.
• Collaborates well within and across teams.
• Communicates openly with team members and others.
• Resolves disagreements between colleagues effectively, minimizing the impact on the wider team.
  
  

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About Us

With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC's subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC's Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at or connect with us on LinkedIn , X , YouTube , Facebook and Instagram .

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.

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About The Team

Our Risk Management teams work to protect the safety and soundness of our systems and are responsible for identifying, managing, measuring and mitigating a spectrum of key risk types including credit, market, liquidity, systemic, operational and technology in all existing and new products, activities, processes and systems.