Senior Risk Management Specialist

7 days ago


Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark Danske Bank Full time

Financial Crime Risk Management

The Senior Risk Officer will serve as a trusted advisor to Danske Bank's Business Customers segment, assisting in complex and principal cases, as well as strategic initiatives. The role requires professional support and advice through effective engagement in identifying, assessing, and communicating financial crime risks.

Key Responsibilities

  • Advise on risk appetite in individual complex and principal cases, as well as on the bank's current and strategic business products and services.
  • Maintain and enhance risk culture to reduce risk exposure and damages within the defined risk appetite/tolerance.
  • Report and analyse risk-related decisions, including inherent and residual risks, and provide insights to patterns and suggest risk principles and mitigating actions.
  • Utilize expertise in financial crime to mitigate risks and enhance Danske Bank's controls, acting as a Financial Crime Risk SME in projects and contributing to the financial crime risk culture.
  • Design and improve controls, providing input for designing and executing controls, continuously improving safeguards, and delivering timely risk assessments with recommendations for mitigating actions.
  • Make decisions and documentation, presenting cases for decisions at relevant councils or committees and making final decisions in complex and principal cases.
  • Evaluate cross-bank perspective, providing a segment view across the bank, ensuring a comprehensive approach to risk management and advisory.
  • Make customer-specific assessments, conducting FC risk typology assessments and customer-specific assessments for both potential and identified risks.

About the Role

  • At least 5 years of relevant experience in the financial sector (financial crime risk management, investigations, AML/CTF, fraud, sanctions, legal, or compliance).
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, Law, or similar.
  • Solid understanding of financial crime risk, regulatory AML frameworks, and banking products and services.
  • Understanding of the customer lifecycle from an AML/CTF risk perspective and good knowledge of the AML regulatory framework and requirements.
  • High degree of integrity and a holistic mindset when required.
  • Ability to work effectively and independently, prioritise and structure workload, and coordinate tasks to meet deadlines.
  • Sharp and confident decision-making abilities with solid analytical and investigative skills.
  • Ability to assimilate new information quickly, process it, and translate analysed risk into business risk understanding.
  • Proven stakeholder management and excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills, including fluency in Danish and English.

About the Team

Danske Bank is committed to building an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of its employees.



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