Senior Risk Analyst – 2 year contract

About Us

 As a leader in luxury retail in the Middle East, Al Tayer Group's retail division, Al Tayer Insignia, hosts a portfolio of some of the world’s best luxury brands in the fashion, jewellery, home and department store categories. Complementing its position in luxury retail, Al Tayer Insignia has also built new frontiers in lifestyle retail, representing leading brands in the Beauty, Home, Fashion and Hospitality sectors. Our brands include Bloomingdales, Harvey Nichols and Armani to name just a few!

About The Role

To support the risk management program, for a 2 year project, through facilitating identification of risks, with the aim to adequately manage or eliminate any risks that may result in property loss, injury, or legal liability and assist the risk owners in development of mitigation plans for risks identified.

What You’ll Be Doing

·       You will ensure consistent and ongoing monitoring, and reporting of key business risks, as per the defined policy and guidelines, in conjunction with business heads.

·       Assist in promoting risk management related best practices within the business.

·       Support in risk related initiatives in projects and liaise with the business unit representatives with a view to ensuring compliance to Risk Management policies and procedures.

·    Work closely with Loss prevention team, QHSSE, finance and other key control functions for integrated control reviews.

·       To support the enterprise-wide risk management program through facilitating identification of risks, with the aim to adequately manage or eliminate any risks that may result in property loss, injury, or legal liability and assist the risk owners in development of mitigation plans for risks identified.

·    To develop and implement reporting and monitoring tools to ensure compliance with Group Risk Management policies and procedures.

·   Assist in the process of risk identification and assessment for relevant departments and make recommendations to mitigate risk or improve control frameworks.

·       Oversee input and data quality of risk management system, in order to generate accurate reports and periodic analysis of the data.

About You

 Education: Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting or economics.

 Experience: At least 4 years post-graduate work experience in (enterprise) risk management, audit and/or assurance function. 

Other requirements: 

·       Experience with international risk management practices is essential.

·       Consultancy/ Compliance Risk experience in the UAE market would be an advantage.