Job Description:Job Description:The Third-Party Governance & Risk Analyst role will be positioned in the 2nd line of defense for third party risk. This role will be responsible for managing the monitoring of critical third parties for cyber, financial, and reputational health and actioning alerts as appropriate; development of metric and reporting to illustrate how our third parties are being managed as well as to provide insight into key drivers or risk and support strategic project initiatives to improve transparency and enhance program effectiveness.This individual will work closely with the Head of Third-Party Risk Management in US, key stakeholders across other risk teams in Sourcing, IT, Data Governance, and Cyber Security teams, and will have direct interaction with internal business partners.Principal Accountabilities:
- Perform monitoring of critical third parties for cyber, financial, and reputational health leveraging available tools (e.g., Security Scorecard, Credit Safe, etc.)
- Create and analyze various views of risks within the third-party portfolio and develop reports and insights into third-party risks and for updates to risk committees (e.g., KRIs, key risk drivers, data minimization results, etc.)
- Conduct third-party training and awareness and attestations of compliance
- Participate in risk mitigation projects by applying business process and technical knowledge and critical thinking – delivering on-scope, on-time. Projects such as data minimization activities.
- Work with stakeholders to understand potential solutions to exceptions and define roadmaps to execute.
- Support audit and regulatory inquiries
Skills and Knowledge:
- 8-10 years’ experience in risk, audit, cyber and/or technology functions (preferably w/ some direct third-party risk experience
- Strong interpersonal skills to engage and motivate, and an out of the box thinking who can influence and embrace change
- Understanding of risk management, resiliency, cybersecurity, third party relationship concepts
Functional Skills:
- Broad / general technical and cyber knowledge
- Experience with governance/risk/compliance (GRC), reporting and analytics tools (Archer, ServiceNow, Tableau, Excel, etc.)
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Highly organized and detail oriented
- Self-motivated professional who will take proprietary ownership of their work, think strategically, work independently and as part of a team.
- Able to establish and meet goals despite competing priorities, drive and track large scale initiatives and strategic enhancements and present progress of the same in an articulate form.
- Team player with ability to build strong cross-business relationships – proven flexibility, adaptability, and reliability.
Location:
This position can be based in any of the following locations:
Chennai, Gurgaon
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