Risk Specialist

What's in it for you

Ground Floor opportunity with EZCORP, a company with a start-up, purpose-driven mentality where innovative and agile problem solving are part of our DNA along with competitive compensation and benefits.

Address: Texas

• The Risk Specialist works to minimize many forms of risks to the company's financial standings.
• This role will be responsible for identifying present risks, whether or not they can be prevented and how to lower the chances of their occurrence.
• This role also entails conducting various assessments including full physical inventories and regulatory compliance assessments as required by regulatory compliance.
• We are specifically looking for candidates who are based in the Dallas/North Texas area.

• Key Areas of Responsibility
• Provides financial insight into business decisions
• Provides quality and timely inventory and compliance reports

Ensures the best decisions are made to minimize potential risks in business operations

Critical and Essential Tasks

• Reviews financial data and information concerning business operations
• Identifies potential risks and recommends how to address the issues identified
• Identifies and analyzes areas of potential risk to the assets, earning capacity, or success of organizations
• Prepares reports and presentations that outline findings, explain risk positions, or recommend change
• Conducts statistical and in-person analyses to identify and categorize risk and potential risk
• Assists in developing risk mitigation strategies and implementing them
• Presents risk analyses to consumers, decision-makers or management, making recommendations for action
• Creates reports to provide to upper management
• Remains informed on the latest developments in the company and overall field in order to update risk reports on a regular basis
• Prepares company risk policies and procedures and safety/operational codes
• Plans and contributes to the development of risk management systems

Requirements

• Experience
• 1-3 years of experience
• Education

• Bachelor's degree required,
• Competencies
• Technical & Professional Skills

Job-Specific Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Comfortable working around firearms
• Bilingual/bicultural technical and conversational skills (Spanish/English)
• Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills; attention to detail and accuracy; and time management and organizational skills
• Highly proficient in the use of MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Mathematical skills in order to perform calculations and identify potential problems with data
• Must be willing to travel 50% of the time.