WOODSTOCK, Georgia
Job Type: Contract
Rate: 95.00
Risk Management SME/Analyst Job Opening in WOODSTOCK, Georgia - Risk Management SME/Analyst
Job Overview:
A Business Consultant thrives in challenging environments and accomplishes difficult assignments without significant supervision and instruction. Our Consultants can handle the stress of being accountable for delivery and: complete goals on time, practice strong attention to detail, persevere through tough obstacles, and do not get easily discouraged.
The Business Consultant may be involved in the strategic planning of an engagement or helping the client make decisions about their future IT direction. Once a project has begun, the Business Consultant may assist in facilitating key requirements with stakeholders and customers using standard and User Experience techniques. The Business Consultant may be responsible for functional designs, detailed designs and system mapping, wireframes, requirement specifications, and prototypes.
The Business Consultant works with the Lead Business Consultant and Senior Project Managers to assist with daily operations exercising time management, communication and collaboration in a fast-paced environment to ensure the successful delivery of projects. The Business Consultant will interface with Perficient technical and business delivery personnel, as well as vendors and customers on a regular basis.
Responsibilities:
Provide ongoing assessment of the risk profile through regular monitoring and status reporting of risk issues and initiatives
Execute front line controls, self-assurance, and risk assessment activities (ad hoc controls review, business process management (BPM), risk control self-assessment (RCSA)), and independent risk and audit activities as directed
Contribute to and support the implementation of remediation plans as directed
Contribute to risk analysis and risk mitigation recommendations
Partner with stakeholders, including process owners and control officers, to document controls, enhance control language, and develop/maintain test scripts that validate controls are being performed in compliance with bank policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements to mitigate risk to the firm
Coordinate control testing activities, including logistical scheduling and document retrieval to support control testing in accordance with internal requirements
Provide project management support in tracking and coordinating the execution of policy and standards control testing activities
Liaise with risk assessment team and other stakeholders to ensure control testing is in alignment with broader risk assessment activities
Create synergies by identifying opportunities to repurpose control testing results to satisfy assessment requirements across the bank
Support internal audits and regulator exams, and other control reviews; assist in resolving identified issues and monitor their resolution
Consult on controls design and efficiency with operations partners in support of their commitments to align with all applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies and procedures
Drive risk culture; influence self-identification and disclosure of control self-assurance gaps
Ensure gaps are addressed via remediation plans that adhere to issues management mandates: timely issue and corrective action submission, accurate root cause identification, corrective action monitoring, on time closure, no failed validations, and no repeat issue
Monitor and evaluate emerging risk, internal operational trends, and external risk events for potential impact to control environment
Prepare risk reporting, risk analysis and risk mitigation recommendations including control environment performance and risk management plans in place for critical issues
Support the preparation of meaningful risk and controls governance materials for executive management as needed
Assist with definition of corrective action plans to remediate non‐compliance with enterprise wide policies and standards; including remediation and monitoring to completion of corrective action plans on an ongoing basis
Communicate material risk exposures and instances of non‐compliance for review and validation
Monitor risk limits and tolerances to identify threshold breaches and escalate any limit breaches for review and validation
Quantify risk exposures using the risk analysis and risk acceptance criteria, tools and methods and communicate exposure
Qualifications:
8 years experience in a risk & control or audit function, and compliance.
6 plus years of experience in information technology, information security, and/or operational risk management, or a combination thereof, or other highly regulated environment
Deep working experience with regulations applicable to the banking and finance industry required
Deep understanding of financial institution processes, products, and risk
Preferred: knowledge in first line of defense risk and control mitigation specifically: thorough understanding of risks and controls, issue management, reporting, metrics, and audits.
Preferred: "Big Four" IT audit experience
Experience with risk assessment/testing methodologies evaluating the adequacy and efficiency of internal controls, and identifying issues resulting from internal and or external compliance examinations
Experience with process documentation, risk, and control assessments and designing/executing test scripts
Experience with problem solving in a team environment by thinking outside of the box, providing innovative solutions, with and without technology
Strong understanding of financial institution businesses, processes, products, and risk
Strong understanding of processes necessary to produce accurate periodic reporting (e.g., data reconciliations, data governance, review, and approval, etc.)
Experience with automating and/or the ability to conceptualize automated control solutions
Experience using Microsoft collaboration and project management tools such as SharePoint, Teams, and Project
Experience with critical data elements (CDE's) and data lineage
Experience with risk metrics definition and reporting/scorecard development utilizing key risk metrics tools (IBM Open Pages, Tableau, structured query language (SQL), Access etc.) preferred
Experience with process documentation, risk and control assessments, and designing/executing risk reporting, preferred
Risk management experience including evaluating the adequacy and efficiency of internal controls, and identifying issues
Experience with enforcement agencies' oversight activities (regulatory examinations, etc.)
Strong understanding of critical domestic and international banking regulations (Reg W, Basel II, Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), etc.)
Strong understanding of the regulatory environment and regulations related to risk, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and Federal Reserve Board (FRB) expectations
Understanding of industry best practices and frameworks such as: Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO), COBIT, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-800-53, Cybersecurity Horizontal Reviews, and ITIL in complex environment
Strong understanding of data quality, data quality monitoring, and data maturity models
Ability to identify signs of changing risk levels
Experience with executing first line risk assessment/testing methodologies, evaluating the adequacy and efficiency of internal controls; and identifying issues resulting from internal and/or external compliance examinations.
Combined experience in external audit, internal audit, and operational risk and/or compliance with local/state/federal regulations.
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