Technology Risk Manager

Job Description

As a Technology Risk Manager, you will play a key role in providing outcome-focused risks and controls assessments that influences Technology risks oversight over projects and portfolios.

Risk Management frameworks

• Support risk management activities ensuring alignment to the 3 lines of defence model and Operational
• Develop and prepare risk reporting and monitoring effectiveness of actions taken to manage identified risks and intervene as appropriate
• Ensure project change is managed in accordance with governance methodologies and frameworks
• Understand, identify, and assess risks during the project implementation and post implementation
• including overall impact to project and operational risk profile throughout the lifecycle
• Establish and lead project risk workshops to identify risks and ensure appropriate controls are adopted

Change Enablement

• Ability to identify risk position of project change in accordance with the Operational Risk and Compliance framework
• Assess, recommend, and advise on risk management to enable sponsors to make fully informed choices around risk position and profile
• Identify and assess risk impact and engage stakeholders to recognize appropriate actions to mitigate the impact

Controls Management

• Act as a trusted advisor, guiding stakeholders on compliance and provide insights and recommendations to enable them to effectively manage risk
• Awareness of SOX and Prudential control framework
• Ability to utilise the Technology Controls Library and other control frameworks to actively identify risk and apply the relevant controls to identified risks
• Utilise existing processes to monitor the effectiveness of controls in line with Client’s methodology
• Ensure relevant project stakeholders implement data integrity controls to minimise any operational risks

Technology Acumen

• Understand high level controls that pervade through the various technical applications, including teams, structure and solutioning
• Understand service management lifecycle across technical solutions and functions
• Understand the technology, the infrastructure, platforms, and systems and how that translates into the business and business requirements
• Ensure projects with technology solutions are appropriately designed

Project Lifecycle Management

• Understand project lifecycle including project plans, business case, contingencies, critical paths
• Understand how to manage and monitor implementation of multiple project plans and handle obstacles effectively
• Understand project plans, framework and outcomes and identify how this may impact the technology risks associated with the project
• Through experience and lessons learnt, support the project team to achieve required outputs of projects whilst directly minimising risk outcomes

Stakeholder Engagement

• Work with stakeholders to develop and drive potential efficiency and improvements in project risk management
• Support activities that provide the stakeholders with insights that influence decisions and enable objectives within risk appetite
• Support in the oversight of risk-related incidents and breaches
• Understand a matrix of inputs across regulatory relations, controls and business risk and their impacts across projects/programs and stakeholders

The Risk Specialist would also:

• Ensure strategic objectives are implemented, risks managed, and benefits realized
• Advise the projects and programs on how to identify, monitor, measure and manage existing and emerging risks
• Provide independent oversight and challenge the effectiveness of risks and controls during pre and post implementation of projects.

Required Qualifications & Experience

Experience, Background, Qualifications and Certifications:

• Candidate will have minimum of 5 years of experience in Risk, Compliance, Assurance and Regulatory areas.
• Preferred candidate with professional consulting experience in risk management ideally with a Big4 or similar large consulting firm.
• Good understanding of Technology Risk and Compliance frameworks is preferred.
• Good communication and presentation skills with a proven track record in stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• Ability to plan and prioritise to manage multiple work streams/tasks simultaneously.
• Candidates with certifications like CISA, CRISC, and PRINCE2/Agile will be preferred.
• The resource must have technology risk experience in financial markets applications.
• Candidates should be well versed with Financial Markets and Institutional Banking applications such as ACF2, AHM Mainframe, AO-X, Application Infra CS90, APS1, Artemis, ATM base 24 front end, ATM host application, Avaloq bank system, Bankfile, Batch Interface System, Big Data platform, Bloomberg, Blue Prism robotics, BSM-Control and Credit Connect.

Key capabilities and skills:

• Risks and Controls Management within technology space.
• The resource must have technology risk experience in financial markets applications.
• It is absolutely essential that they have change experience while run is important.
• Technology Insight (Infrastructure, Data, Cloud and Service Management).
• Project Lifecycle Management.
• Stakeholder engagement.

What you’ll love about working here

• We recognise the significance of flexible work arrangements to provide support. Be it remote work, or flexible work hours, you will get an environment to maintain healthy work life balance.
• At the heart of our mission is your career growth. Our array of career growth programs and diverse professions are crafted to support you in exploring a world of opportunities.
• Equip yourself with valuable certifications in the latest technologies such as AWS and Microsoft Azure.