Strategic Risk Expert (NAM Portugal)

Job ID: 4384

We are looking for a Strategic Risk Expert to strengthen NAM Risk Management & Control by ensuring the full Group risk taxonomy is covered with a proportionate NAM setup, and by aggregating, interpreting and communicating the full NAM risk picture across legal entities, stakeholders and regulatory forums - working closely across our three risk areas: Operational Risk, ICT Risk and Fund Risk, with extra focus on the build-up of ICT Risk as a separate risk area.

About our team

Risk Management & Control provides independent risk oversight and constructive challenge across NAM, supporting a resilient and compliant business. Risk Management & Control, led by the CRO, is an international 2nd Line of Defence team responsible for risk management and oversight globally within NAM, including subsidiaries and branches. NAM operates across our main hubs in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Luxembourg, Helsinki, and Lisbon. In this role, you will help establish and lead a new, specialised ICT risk team, working closely and directly with 1st Line of Defence, senior management, and boards.

 
Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

What you’ll be doing:

• As a Strategic Risk Expert, you will apply the Group risk taxonomy, frameworks and processes in a proportionate and practical NAM context, translating Group requirements into fit for purpose risk management practices across NAM legal entities. You will aggregate, interpret and communicate the NAM risk picture both as part of the broader Nordea Group and from a NAM specific perspective—working across Operational Risk, ICT Risk and Fund Risk.
• Translate and apply Group risk taxonomy, frameworks and processes in a NAM setting, ensuring alignment with both Group expectations and local regulatory requirements across NAM legal entities.
• Aggregate and communicate the overall NAM risk picture across Operational Risk, ICT Risk and Fund Risk, presenting consistent and decision useful narratives from both a Group and NAM perspective.
• Provide NAM level interpretation of Group risk topics for senior governance (e.g. management committees and boards), clarifying implications, priorities, trade offs and entity specific considerations.
• Coordinate and quality assure risk reporting to ensure that Group requirements are implemented consistently while reflecting NAM’s business model, legal entity structure and regulatory context.
• Drive risk quality and governance by promoting consistency in methods, definitions, evidence and narratives, and by providing constructive and proportionate challenge across risk domains.

Who you are

This is the right role for you if you enjoy working across multiple risk domains and creating an end-to-end view of the overall risk picture. You combine solid analytical skills with the ability to drive clarity and consistency, and you communicate credibly with senior decision-makers—supporting NAM-level interpretation for boards, Group stakeholders and regulators.

Your background and skills include:

• Extensive experience in risk management, governance and reporting, with the ability to translate specialist inputs into an aggregated, decision-useful NAM risk view. 
• Ability to work across specialist risk domains and legal entities to translate and apply Group risk taxonomy, frameworks and processes into proportionate and fit-for-purpose risk management practices across NAM. 
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, able to build alignment across specialist domains and legal entities and to prepare board-/regulator-ready narratives. 
• A quality mindset and attention to detail—able to ensure consistency in methods, definitions, evidence and narratives across risk deliverables.

It would be ideal if you also:

• Experience in regulated financial services and engaging with Group stakeholders, auditors and/or supervisors on risk topics. 
• Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder governance processes and producing board-quality materials and narratives.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

Submit your application no later than 30/06/2026.

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