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Risk Management Specialists

Analyze and manage risk management issues by identifying, measuring, and making decisions on operational or enterprise risks for an organization.

U.S. Workers

127,450

Median Salary

$80,190

10-Year Growth

+3.1%

Annual Openings

10,300

Typical entry: Bachelor's degree

Minimal RiskImminent Risk65%HIGH

24 of 24 tasks have some AI capability

Exposure Trend

Mar65.06%Apr65.06%May65.06%Jun65.06%

This score reflects estimated AI technical capability for tasks in this occupation. It does not predict employment changes, and it does not account for company-specific constraints, regulation, or adoption barriers.

Fully Automatable (7)

AI could handle these end-to-end

Recommend ways to control or reduce risk.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can analyze data, identify risk exposures and recommend control measures using established frameworks and best practices, enabling end-to-end automated recommendations.

imp: 4.3

Analyze areas of potential risk to the assets, earning capacity, or success of organizations.

AI: Fully automatable - AI systems can ingest financial, operational and external data to detect and prioritize potential risks to assets and earning capacity with high automation.

imp: 4.2

Gather risk-related data from internal or external resources.

AI: Fully automatable - AI agents and automation workflows can ingest, scrape, query and normalize internal and external risk-related data end-to-end given appropriate access and connectors.

imp: 4.0

Produce reports or presentations that outline findings, explain risk positions, or recommend changes.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can produce polished reports and presentations that summarize findings, quantify positions and recommend changes from data and analyses with minimal human editing for finalization.

imp: 3.6

Devise scenario analyses reflecting possible severe market events.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can design and run scenario analyses and stress tests (including extreme-market simulations) at scale, producing actionable scenarios suitable for risk management workflows.

imp: 3.5

Track, measure, or report on aspects of market risk for traded issues.

AI: Fully automatable - Tracking, measuring and reporting market risk metrics (e.g., VaR, stress tests, P&L attribution) is routine and can be fully automated with current AI and engineering systems.

imp: 3.5

Conduct statistical analyses to quantify risk, using statistical analysis software or econometric models.

AI: Fully automatable - AI can run statistical analyses, fit econometric models and perform simulations using statistical software and automation pipelines to quantify risk end-to-end.

imp: 3.5

Human in the Loop (17)

AI could assist, human oversight required

Develop contingency plans to deal with emergencies.

AI: Partial - AI can draft contingency plans and run scenario simulations, yet real-world emergency planning and inter-agency coordination require human leadership and contextual judgment.

imp: 4.3

Document, and ensure communication of, key risks.

AI: Partial - AI can generate standardized risk documentation and automate distribution, but cannot fully ensure stakeholder understanding, acceptance, or follow-through without human engagement.

imp: 4.1

Maintain input or data quality of risk management systems.

AI: Partial - AI can perform data validation, cleaning, anomaly detection and routine corrections, but ongoing governance, complex reconciliation and root-cause resolution require human oversight.

imp: 4.0

Evaluate the risks related to green investments, such as renewable energy company stocks.

AI: Partial - AI can analyze financials, market and policy data to assess green‑investment risks, but complex regulatory, technological and ESG judgment calls require human expertise.

imp: 4.0

Confer with traders to identify and communicate risks associated with specific trading strategies or positions.

AI: Partial - AI can assist by analyzing positions and generating risk communications, but real‑time trading nuances, relationship management, and final decisions typically need human interaction.

imp: 3.8

Develop or implement risk-assessment models or methodologies.

AI: Partial - AI can propose and implement model structures and code, but designing methodologies, validating them in complex contexts and obtaining regulatory or expert sign-off limits full automation.

imp: 3.8

Determine potential environmental impacts of new products or processes on long-term growth and profitability.

AI: Partial - AI can model environmental impacts and their economic implications using available data, yet comprehensive environmental assessments and strategic business judgement remain partly human tasks.

imp: 3.8

Devise systems or processes to monitor validity of risk assessments.

AI: Partial - AI can build automated monitors, backtests and alerting mechanisms, yet defining monitoring regimes, thresholds and interpreting failures typically needs human governance and judgment.

imp: 3.7

Meet with clients to answer queries on subjects such as risk exposure, market scenarios, or values-at-risk calculations.

AI: Partial - AI can answer many client queries, run scenario analyses and produce on-the-fly calculations, but live client meetings, nuanced negotiations and relationship management remain human-centric.

imp: 3.6

Contribute to development of risk management systems.

AI: Partial - AI can contribute code, prototypes, tests and design suggestions to risk management systems, but systems integration, architecture decisions and cross-team coordination require human engineers.

imp: 3.6

Identify key risks and mitigating factors of potential investments, such as asset types and values, legal and ownership structures, professional reputations, customer bases, or industry segments.

AI: Partial - AI can identify many investment risks and suggest mitigants from public and structured data, but verifying legal/ownership details and reputational nuances often requires human investigation.

imp: 3.5

Review or draft risk disclosures for offer documents.

AI: Partial - AI can draft and flag issues in risk disclosures efficiently, but legal compliance, tailoring to specific offer documents, and sign‑off generally require human review.

imp: 3.5

Analyze new legislation to determine impact on risk exposure.

AI: Partial - AI can summarize new legislation and map likely effects to risk factors, but legally compliant impact assessment and strategic implications need expert legal and domain judgment.

imp: 3.3

Evaluate the risks and benefits involved in implementing green building technologies.

AI: Partial - AI can evaluate technical, financial, and regulatory aspects of green building technologies, but site‑specific constraints and strategic tradeoffs need human decisionmakers.

imp: 3.1

Provide statistical modeling advice to other departments.

AI: Partial - AI can generate statistical modeling recommendations, code, and diagnostics, but contextual judgment and organizational alignment typically require human oversight.

imp: 3.1

Determine potential liability related to the use of more sustainable methods of product packaging, such as biodegradable food containers.

AI: Partial - AI can research regulations, materials science data, past cases, and model risk scenarios to identify likely liabilities, but it lacks the legal judgment and firm-specific contextual decision-making required for a definitive liability determination.

imp: 3.1

Consult financial literature to ensure use of the latest models or statistical techniques.

AI: Partial - AI can search and summarize financial literature and highlight recent techniques, but verifying cutting‑edge work and sources still needs expert validation to avoid omissions or hallucinations.

imp: 3.1

Skills for this role (35)

Critical ThinkingEssentialReading ComprehensionEssentialActive ListeningCoreSpeakingCoreSystems AnalysisCoreWritingCoreSystems EvaluationCoreJudgment and Decision MakingCoreMathematicsCoreComplex Problem SolvingCore
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