Tania Narciso

Experienced senior risk and compliance officer with expertise across various regulatory regimes and jurisdictions including banking, payments, securities and capital markets. Focused on innovation risk management by integrating people, processes and technology. Interested in transformation projects and change initiatives, and exploring innovative ways to manage risk, and through a risk lens, to identify opportunities that drive performance.

What makes you a Risky Woman?

I’m very curious and love data! I did an undergraduate degree in life sciences and spent some time in research. Since that time, I tend to look at the world as a series of predictions and probabilities. Having the right data and doing the right analysis always brings about better understanding, better predictions, and superior outcomes. I love the process and I love bringing together people and technology to drive winning outcomes.

Name your top 3 achievements

I have two professional achievements and one personal that I would consider to be in my top three, and will share not necessarily in order of importance!

1. My current top two professional achievements have been working through ambiguous times alongside super bright colleagues to navigate change; in 2008/2009 credit crisis as a new senior manager in Compliance,
2. and later with a global financial institution rolling out global standards to drive greater global operational efficiency and effectiveness. These were amazing learning opportunities and the beginning of a new standard for scaling globally.
3. My third top achievement, which is ongoing, is raising four feisty children!

What is the biggest risk you’ve taken in your career?

One of the biggest risks I’ve taken in my career was moving from life sciences and research, to financial services. I followed an opportunity, curious about the potential, and quickly discovered that I didn’t have to stop learning, and the scientific method would serve me well into my future in risk!

What’s something most people don’t know about you?

I love journaling! It started as a way to work through my thoughts in private, but now has also become a way to not forget the things I want to remember!

What is the best quality for successful leaders in Risk?

A Risk leader needs to be an integrative thinker and catalyst. Navigating complexity and interdependencies as is inherent in the risk practice, requires bringing together diverse knowledge, skills and abilities, and leading people through iterative and sometimes non-linear processes to remove critical knowledge gaps and drive superior collective understanding.