Risk Manager

As a Risk Manager at Springer Nature Group, your role will involve working within a small team to enhance processes and maintain standards suitable for a company listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. You will be responsible for identifying, analyzing, describing, and estimating the risks affecting the business. Recording risks in our global system (Workiva/WDesk) and evaluating risk capacity by comparing estimated risks with criteria established by the organization such as costs, legal requirements, and environmental factors will be part of your responsibilities. Additionally, you will advise and assess performance against the organization's "risk appetite" and report appropriately to different audiences, such as senior managers, functional heads, business heads, and individual risk owners. Your duties will also include contributing to external risk reporting to stakeholders, reviewing risk policies regularly to ensure compliance with relevant legislation, participating in audits of policy and compliance to standards, and providing support, education, and training to staff to build risk awareness within the organization. The ideal candidate for this position will have strong demonstrable experience in risk management for a large company or consulting in risk management. You should possess the ability to generate and deliver concise, timely reports to stakeholders, including those in senior positions. Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) are essential, along with a strong work ethic and the creative ability to achieve identified goals individually and as a team player in a global function. Anticipating issues and opportunities, responding with appropriate, risk-aware, and cost-driven solutions, and being a structured problem solver are key qualities required for this role. Moreover, you should be able to use analytical skills to identify trends and themes regarding ethics & compliance risks from various data sources and take necessary action to address them. Strong personal time management skills, a university degree, and/or a professional qualification are essential. Accountancy or audit qualifications would be advantageous, and German language skills are a plus.,