Risk Expert

Job ID: 28811

Are you an ambitious, independent and results oriented risk professional that would enjoy working in a demanding fast paced environment? We are looking for new team members in our Recovery & Resolution team to execute on our recovery and resolution plans.

In this role you will hold responsibility for specific project related deliveries, as well as contributing to business as usual oversight activities that ensures the ongoing relevance of our resolvability status.

This is a great opportunity for an ambitious and driven individual that is looking to invest in, grow and develop your career. The role will allow you to immerse in a diverse set of important activities supporting an important risk agenda that is rapidly evolving.

About Our Team
You will be reporting to the Group Head of Resolution – a division of Enterprise Risk Management within Group Risk. In this role, you will take portfolio responsibility for a range of activities that target Nordea's resolvability and executes on a range of important programme and business as usual deliveries.

You will report to and support the Group Head of Recovery & Resolution.

The Group Recovery and Resolution team is executing on an ambitious agenda to ensure Nordea complies with all supervisory requirements in relation to our financial recovery and resolvability. Equally, we are working to ensure we deliver solutions and support to the broader Group organization to support the maintenance of our technologies and processes that ensure we comply.

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.

You will join a team of risk professionals with a focus on:

• Support to our Group Head of Recovery and Resolution – Anna Lindquist

• Take independent responsibility for Recovery and Resolution deliveries across:

• Dry-Run Planning and execution

• Onsite inspection management, coordination and execution
• Business strategy analysis to ensure separability in a resolution situation
• Liquidity and Business Reorganization analysis and forecasting
• Capital analysis with focus on MREL

• Regulatory interpretation and integration

• Process design and implementation

• Work closely together with management to develop and articulate the strategic direction for Recovery and Resolution
• Prepare and coordinate decision proposals to the leadership team of ERM Recovery and Resolution – including the Resolution Programme Steerco, chaired by the Group CFO

This role is based in Helsinki or Stockholm.

Who You Are
You will join the Enterprise-wide Risk Management team part of Group Risk.

Your background and skills include:

• Fluency in English – written and spoken
• A minimum of five years banking experience with recovery and resolution planning. Stress testing or financial analysis background would be an asset
• You will preferably demonstrate a portfolio of concrete deliveries that have contributed demonstrably to a modern risk management organization
• Technology skills such as coding ability is an asset but not a requirement

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• Have strong collaboration and communication skills
• An intense focus on quality and deadline management
• Have good stakeholder management skills
• Enjoy learning and are excited about bringing your ideas to the table
• Have a structured mindset and are highly organised with a can-do attitude

What We Offer
People come here when they want to get somewhere. For some, it's to take their career to the next level. For others, it's to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

If this sounds like you, get in touch

Next steps
Submit your application no later than 31/10/2025.  For more information, you're welcome to contact Anna Lindquist at

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.
We build relationships
. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop.
We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers' needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change
. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea
. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.

Only gor candidates in Sweden:
For union information, please contact Finansförbundet at or SACO at .