Operational Risk Senior Advisor

Location: New York, New York, United States of America

Salary: $150,800–$251,300 annual (USD)

Company

M&T Bank provides banking and financial services and maintains an operational risk management function aligned with regulatory and industry standards.

What you will do

• Provide independent, risk-based challenge and second-line oversight of significant business and functional risks.
• Assess risk identification, monitoring, mitigation, reporting, control failures, policy breaches, and remediation plans.
• Prepare and present risk opinions, reports, and presentations for senior leadership.
• Monitor first-line risk management execution for alignment with the Operational Risk Management Framework, policies, and supervisory expectations.
• Collaborate with first-line risk, technology risk, compliance, model risk, and other second-line partners.
• Monitor emerging risks related to evolving technologies, digital channels, data-driven decisions, third-party dependencies, resilience, and changing business models.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and eight years of experience in compliance, legal, audit, risk, or a relevant function; alternatively, twelve years of combined higher education and work experience including eight relevant years.
• Experience with operational risk management concepts, industry practices, and technology-enabled process risk.
• Strong analytical, written, verbal communication, computer, spreadsheet, and word-processing skills.
• Ability to work independently, challenge unmitigated risks, escalate gaps, and interact with senior management, governance, audit, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Role location: New York, New York, United States of America.

Nice to have

• Eight years of progressive experience in operational, technology, and/or enterprise risk management.
• Experience developing or enhancing operational risk tools, metrics, and monitoring reports.
• Second-line operational risk experience at a Category 3 or larger financial institution.
• Project planning experience or project management certification.
• Risk oversight experience in bank support functions such as procurement, vendor management, legal, human resources, premises, or corporate security.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a structured operational risk management framework.
• Collaborate across first-line and second-line risk functions, technology, compliance, and model risk.
• Engage with external peers and professional organizations to monitor emerging risks and industry practices.
• Compensation is market-informed and based on the successful candidate’s knowledge, skills, and experience.