Operational Risk Senior Analyst

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa TransUnion Full time
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What We'll Bring:


As part of the Operational Risk and Resilience team and reporting to the Operational Risk Manager, the role holder will be responsible for establishing, maintaining and managing a reporting framework to support the monitoring and management of operational assurance activity for TransUnion UK.


What You'll Bring:

Core Duties / Responsibilities:

  • Engag ing with various business owners to facilitate the creation, maintenance and management of risk registers, including bestpractice 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.
  • Provid ing risk and control framework reporting for the Operational Risk Committee (ORC) 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.

Impact You'll Make:

Requir ed
Skills/Qualifications /Experience**:

Core soft skills required

  • Competency in planning and implementing risk reviews
  • Good communication skills and the a bility 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
  • Excellent attention to detail and a high level of accuracy in all areas of work
  • Organisation and time management, specifically working to deadlines with multiple deliverables
  • Strong analytical and problemsolving capabilities,
  • Highly developed ability to analyse and present data effectively
  • Effective relationship building and stakeholder management skills.
Previous experience (general and managerial)

  • Three years of relevant risk and control management experience.
  • Process improvement through effective control monitoring and management
  • Governance and quality management within a regulated business, financial services preferred.
  • Managing and maintaining an ISO 9001 compliant Quality Management System
  • Maintaining regulatory compliance in a complex environment
  • Financial Services experience (desirable)
  • Understanding of Credit Reference Agency data (desirable)
  • Design and implementation of control dashboards and reporting (desirable)


It is a requirement of the Global Capability Centre Africa that you reside in a home that is fibre ready; and has space for you to be able to work comfortably and confidentially on a day-to-day basis for the purpose of your proposed employment.

You can be based anywhere in South Africa and will not be able to work in a location outside of South Africa.


A Minimum of a 100 Meg Fibre line is required, should you be successful, you will need to upgrade your line in order to work effectively.

This is a remote position which may require occasional in-person attendance at work-related events at the discretion of management.

TransUnion Job Title

Sr Analyst, Risk Management

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