Organization:FINCA International
Location:Georgia,United States
Opportunity Type: Job
About the Organization:
FINCA International, one of the world's leading MFIs, provides financial services to clients through
wholly-owned and operated subsidiaries in Africa, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Greater Middle East.
About the Job:
FINCA is seeking a Director - Global Risk Management. S/he will plan, direct, and coordinate organization’s risk management and insurance programs to control global risks and losses by performing the following duties personally or through subordinate supervisors. S/he will report to the deputy to the president and the CEO.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Plan, design, train, and implement an enterprise risk management strategy for organization, to include policies, processes, tools, and structure, and by developing operational models and a risk management policy manual;
- Develop and implement risk management systems for each level and function of the organization, with an emphasis on training, particularly at the subsidiary level, to ensure that organization's employees effectively identify and mitigate risk;
- Develop tools to analyze and classify risks as to frequency and potential severity, and measure financial impact of risk on company;
- Select appropriate risk mitigation techniques and implement programs and policies to minimize loss, such as avoidance, loss prevention and reduction, retention, grouping of exposure units, and transfer;
- Work with the deputy to the president and CEO, members of the management team, the internal audit function, and subsidiary CEOs to prioritize the most important risks faced by the institution and create an implementation matrix for addressing each of the identified risks;
- Manage the process of analyzing upside and downside risks, as well as identify, describe, and estimate the quantitative and qualitative risks affecting the business of organization and and its subsidiaries;
- Develop risk reporting in an appropriate way for the different audiences in organization;
- Implement risk treatment by selecting and implementing measures to control and mitigate risks, including proposals to avoid the different types of risks faced by organization and and its subsidiaries;
- Monitor and review processes to ensure risk and compliance arrangements are in place, by working with the different departments in HQ and in the subsidiaries;
- Manage operational insurance programs such as fidelity, surety, and liability;
- Provide support, education, and training of staff, usually at the management level, both at HQ and in the field;
- Support risk management focused technical assistance efforts, including oversight, implementation and reporting to grantor institutions.
Qualifications:
- Master's degree or equivalent;
- Minimum of 10 years of related work experience;
- Previous experience in risk management of an international financial institution with operations in conflict zones and developing countries;
- Ability to travel 20 - 50 percent of the time.
Closing Date: 19 Jul 2013
How to Apply:
Apply Online
http://www.microfinancegateway.org/p/site/m//template.rc/1.11.191545