Ibercaja is one of the leading Spanish banking groups, offering a comprehensive range of financial services including retail banking, asset management, and insurance. With over 140 years of history, the institution operates a vast network of branches across Spain, serving millions of customers and maintaining a significant position in the national financial landscape.

Headquartered in Zaragoza, Ibercaja maintains a dominant presence in the regions of Aragon, La Rioja, and Guadalajara, while also operating major hubs in Madrid and Barcelona. For international professionals, the company offers opportunities in specialized areas such as risk management, data analysis, and corporate banking, though a high level of Spanish proficiency is typically required for most roles.

Founded in 1876 as a savings bank in Zaragoza, Ibercaja has evolved into a major commercial banking group. It successfully navigated the restructuring of the Spanish financial sector in 2011 to become a modern, competitive bank.

For international professionals

Headquartered in Zaragoza, offering a lower cost of living compared to Madrid or Barcelona.
Strong focus on digital transformation and risk management roles.
Primarily operates in Spanish; professional fluency in the language is essential.
Offers a stable corporate environment within one of Spain's top ten banking groups.

Operational Risk Control Analyst

Ibercaja

This job was originally posted in Spanish and automatically translated to English. You'll most likely need Spanish to apply.

Job Description

At Ibercaja, we accompany people, helping them make financial decisions at the most important moments of their lives; therefore, our professionalism: rigor, efficiency, agility, and integrity is a key value.

What are we looking for?

A professional for the Non-Financial Risk Control team within the Risk Control Directorate.

The objective of this position is to work alongside risk managers in identifying the Group's operational risks, as well as determining controls for their mitigation.

Requirements

University degree in Business Administration, Economics, Finance, or similar (a strong academic record is highly valued).
Knowledge of the banking regulatory framework is an advantage.
High level of Excel required. Knowledge of Power BI is an advantage.

What will your responsibilities be?

Work together with Operational Risk managers to maintain an updated Operational Risk Map for the Group, as well as the controls associated with said risk for its mitigation, in accordance with defined methodologies and current regulations.
Evaluate, analyze, and monitor the Entity's Operational Risk level through the development of indicators, within the general context of compliance with applicable regulations.
Review, evaluate, and/or validate the efficiency and sufficiency of currently active and implemented controls, issuing opinions on them, their adequacy for risk mitigation, and proposing, where necessary, the creation of new controls through recommendations issued in the reports prepared on the matter.
Follow up on the recommendations made in the issued reports and, specifically, monitor the associated Action Plans, evaluating their adequacy in time and form to mitigate the detected inefficiency.
Generate periodic reports on the results of the monitoring, tracking, and evaluation of the previously mentioned risk control methodologies.

What is our value proposition for you?

Be part of the team of a Bank whose purpose is to help people through proximity and honesty.
Develop an internal professional career, with tracking through individual evaluations.
Personal training program to ensure your continuous learning.
Attractive social benefits package: pension plan, study grants, and preferential financial conditions.
Flexible remuneration applied to health, transport, training, languages, among others.
Flexibility measures.

View original advert (Spanish)

En Ibercaja acompañamos a las personas, ayudándoles a tomar las decisiones financieras en los momentos más importantes de su vida, por ello nuestra profesionalidad: rigor, eficacia, agilidad e integridad es un valor clave.

¿Qué buscamos?

A un/a profesional para el equipo de Control de Riesgos no Financieros en la Dirección de Control de Riesgos.

El objetivo de este puesto es trabajar junto con los gestores de riesgo en la identificación de los riesgos operativos del Grupo, así como en la determinación de controles para su mitigación.

Requerimientos

Grado universitario en ADE, FICO o similar (muy valorable buen expediente académico).
Valorable conocimiento del marco regulatorio bancario.
Requerido nivel alto de Excel. Valorable conocimientos de Power BI.

¿Cuáles serán tus responsabilidades?

Trabajar junto con los gestores de Riesgo Operacional en el mantenimiento actualizado del Mapa de riesgos operacionales del Grupo, así como de los controles asociados a dicho riesgo para su mitigación, conforme a las metodologías definidas y la normativa actualmente vigente.
Evaluar, analizar y seguir el nivel de Riesgo Operacional de la Entidad a partir del desarrollo de indicadores, en el contexto general del cumplimiento de la normativa aplicable.
Revisar, evaluar y/o validar la eficiencia y suficiencia de los controles actualmente vigentes e implantados, emitiendo opinión sobre los mismos, su adecuación para la mitigación de los riesgos y proponiendo, en su caso, la generación de nuevos controles cuando sea necesario a través de recomendaciones emitidas en los informes que se elaboren al respecto.
Realizar seguimiento de las recomendaciones realizadas en los informes emitidos y, en concreto, realizar seguimiento de los Planes de Acción asociados, evaluando su adecuación en tiempo y forma para la mitigación de la ineficiencia detectada.
Generar informes periódicos acerca de los resultados del seguimiento, monitorización y evaluación de las metodologías de control de riesgo previamente nombradas.

¿Cuál es nuestra propuesta de valor para ti?

Formar parte del equipo de un Banco cuyo propósito es ayudar a la personas desde la cercanía y la honestidad.
Desarrollar una carrera profesional interna, seguimiento con evaluaciones individuales.
Programa formativo personal para que que tu aprendizaje sea continúo.
Atractivo paquete de beneficios sociales: plan de pensiones, ayuda de estudios y condiciones financieras preferentes.
Retribución flexible aplicada a salud, transporte, formación, idiomas, entre otros.
Medidas de flexibilidad.