The Risk Office is the organisational structure unit through which the Bank ensures the coordination of the activities inherent to risk management. The Risk Office is responsible for defining, updating and implementing the Group's risk management and control policies, as defined at any given time by the Board of Directors (BoD) of Banco Comercial Português, S.A., as well as aligning the Bank's global objectives and the specific objectives of the organic units with the risk profile and appetite approved by the BoD, ensuring that the Bank has a global view of all the risks to which its activity is or may be exposed.
Hence, the Risk Office focuses its action on the constant promotion of a strong and effective infrastructure for risk management and control, guaranteeing the execution of a set of permanent processes that enable the Group to gain an adequate understanding of the nature and size of the underlying business risks activities (and business support) undertaken, thus enabling the proper implementation of the strategy and the fulfilment of the Group's objectives in a sustainable manner.
Risk management and control activities and processes are governed by a set of internal normative documents, consisting of Group-wide and/or company-specific regulations, which define the policies and procedures to assess, control and report the different types of risk to which the Group's activity is subject. It is the Risk Office's responsibility to keep this body of regulations permanently updated and to propose the issue of any new internal regulations that prove necessary.
In this manner, the risk management function - which, together with the Internal Audit and the Compliance functions, makes up the Group's Internal Control System - identifies, evaluates, monitors and controls all internal and external material risks faced by the Group companies.
In organisational terms, the Risk Office and its head report directly to the Executive Committee (EC), while maintaining a functional report to the Bank's Risk Assessment Committee.
The Risk Officer participates in several of the Commissions that emanate from the EC and is responsible for promoting and coordinating the policies and rules applicable to risk management and control in all the Group's entities, ensuring global risk monitoring and the alignment of concepts, practices and objectives on a consolidated basis. The Risk Officer participates in the Risk Control Committee of the Subsidiaries abroad.
Risk Officer:
Luís Miguel Manso Correia dos Santos