Senior Operational Risk Analyst
TransUnion
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: South Africa
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About the role
- Engaging with various business owners to facilitate the maintenance and management of functional risk registers, including best-practice guidance on risk identification and assessment, risk and control articulation, risk mitigation action plan (improvement plan) development and the annual Risk & Control Self Assessment (RCSA).
- Planning and conducting control operation sampling exercises to verify controls are operating effectively, reporting findings to key stakeholders and agreeing appropriate remediation/corrective action plans where required.
- Supporting the preparation of high-quality papers, reports, and MI dashboard outputs for the European Risk Management Committee (EURMC) and other forums as required, to illustrate how the current control environment is performing.
- Escalating risk and control issues to the relevant stakeholders and governance forums as appropriate.
- Maintaining the accuracy of risk reporting tools and identifying and, where appropriate, facilitating improvements to the reporting tools.
- Identifying and driving areas of control improvement for key processes and procedures to ensure compliance with all policies and standards.
- Facilitating the maintenance of the company’s ISO 9001 Quality Management System certification by planning and conducting internal reviews with key stakeholders, agreeing and driving remediation plans, facilitating the completion of audits by the certification body and ensuring any audit findings are followed up and resolved.
Requirements
- Three years relevant experience of operating within a risk management function (or similar) within the financial services sector.
- Competency in planning and implementing risk reviews
- Good communication skills and the ability to articulate key messages across stakeholders at all levels.
- The initiative to propose solutions and to take action independently with the confidence to effectively challenge the status quo
- Methodical, thorough and diligent, with strong attention to detail and strong documentation and report writing and presentation skills.
- Organisation and time management, specifically working to deadlines with multiple deliverables
- Aptitude for learning, problem-solving and quickly understanding new and complex information.
- Highly developed ability to analyse and present data effectively
- Effective relationship building and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to use standard Microsoft products to a high standard, including Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Strong knowledge of risk management principles and techniques.
- Experience of operating within a risk management function (or similar) of an FCA regulated firm, with sound knowledge of the UK financial services sector.
- Knowledge of data management environments to be able to make critical observations and drive continual improvement.
- Good understanding of data protection regulation regimes, such as UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018.
- Experience of working with a Quality Management System certified to the ISO 9001 Quality Management Standard.
- Design and implementation of control dashboards and reporting.
- Educated to degree level or otherwise suitable experience.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
risk managementrisk identificationrisk assessmentcontrol operation samplingdata analysisreport writingcontrol dashboardsdata managementISO 9001UK General Data Protection Regulation
Soft skills
communicationinitiativeproblem-solvingattention to detailorganisationtime managementrelationship buildingstakeholder managementpresentation skillsdiligence
Certifications
ISO 9001 Quality Management System certification