Risk Management Analyst

5 days ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa TransUnion Full time R250 000 - R500 000 per year
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What We'll Bring:
The Risk function's responsibility is to support TransUnion Europe in ensuring risks are identified, understood and managed appropriately in accordance with approved policies and risk appetite and to enable all colleagues to understand how risk management forms an integral part of everyone's day-to-day role and responsibilities.
Reporting to the Head of Risk & Resilience, the Senior Risk Analyst will work with TransUnion Europe's wider risk and regulatory teams to regularly engage with stakeholders to drive development and improvement of risk management and culture, in alignment with our business strategy and risk appetite
The Senior Risk Analyst will be responsible for working with key stakeholders to identify and document key risks and issues, in both business-as-usual activities and significant change initiatives, and fulfil ad-hoc risk-focused review work to support the Risk function in its fulfilment of business oversight and proactive risk management to ensure risks are being appropriately flagged and recorded/reported as needed, enabling corrective action to be taken as necessary to mitigate.

What You'll Bring:
  • Work closely with business stakeholders to ensure material risks and issues are appropriately articulated and documented and seek solutions to appropriately address them.
  • Perform reviews of risk themes, regulatory topics, processes, projects, or business activities to identify potential risks and issues.
  • Identify and drive control improvement opportunities within key processes and procedures to ensure compliance with policies and standards.
  • Prepare and maintain accurate and complete documentation that records the completion of risk-focused reviews.
  • Support preparation of high-quality papers, reports, and MI dashboard outputs for risk governance committees and forums.
  • Support interactions with regulators (such as the FCA and ICO in the UK), and assist in the preparation of high-quality documents to share with regulators.
  • Support ongoing development and embedding of the global Risk Management Framework in the TransUnion Europe business, both in the geographical region itself and in other parts of TransUnion as appropriate.
  • Work in collaboration with Internal Audit, Compliance, Legal and Data Governance teams to ensure the business is provided assurance over TransUnion's material risk exposures via appropriate oversight activities.
Impact You'll Make:

Essential
  • 5- 10 yrs experience of operating within a risk management function (or similar) within the financial services sector.
  • Relevant Tertiary qualification, Risk Management.
  • Aptitude for learning, problem-solving and quickly understanding new and complex information.
  • Methodical, thorough and diligent, with strong attention to detail and strong documentation and report writing and presentation skills.
  • Experience of preparing papers for, and presenting at, governance committees
  • Effective organisational and time management skills to be able to manage completion of multiple activities tasks within set deadlines.
  • Confident interpersonal and communications skills with internal and external stakeholders at all levels, both orally and in writing.
  • Ability to use standard Microsoft products to a high standard, including Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
  • Strong knowledge of risk management principles and techniques.
Preferred
  • Experience of operating within a risk management function (or similar) of an FCA regulated firm, with sound knowledge of the UK financial services sector.
  • Awareness and understanding of FCA regulation including Consumer Duty and Operational Resilience and the European Union's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).
  • 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.
For positions based in South Africa, preference will be given to suitably qualified candidates from designated groups in line with the company's Employment Equity plan and targets.

Should you have not heard from us within 3 weeks from applying, please regard your application as unsuccessful.

Please note 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 that has fibre, but 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 or install fibre in order to work effectively.

Please note that being a credit bureau, some positions require a clear credit record.

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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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