Technology Risk and Controls Specialist

15 hours ago


Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Change Digital – Digital & Tech Recruitment Full time
Job Title: Technology Risk and Controls Manager

This is an exciting opportunity to join a financial services organisation in the UK as a Technology Risk and Controls Manager. The role involves providing Controls and Risk Management leadership to enable colleagues to make informed decisions.

About the Role

The Technology Controls team is transforming and maturing the Technology Risk and Control framework within the organisation. As a Technology Risk and Controls Manager, you will provide oversight of the Technology Controls Library, supporting key stakeholders by providing expert guidance based on analytical outcomes and insight surrounding the operation of the control environment.

Key Responsibilities
  • Own, coordinate, and operate a variety of control oversight activities, including the delivery of scheme attestations and annual control testing schedules.
  • Research, transform, and improve existing practices.
  • Coordinate and drive responses to attestation and Due Diligence requirements.
  • Provide consultancy and expertise on Control Design and Operating practices.
  • Inform and support key stakeholders to make risk-based decisions.
Requirements
  • Communicates at an advanced level and can positively challenge and enable Key Stakeholders in discharging their accountabilities in relation to Risk Management.
  • Works under own initiative to plan, organise, prioritise, and oversee activities to efficiently meet business objectives.
  • Works under own initiative to monitor, interpret, and understand policies and procedures, while making sure they match organisational strategies and objectives.
  • Explore the depth and breadth of a problem, draw out the implications of not changing, and help clients self-discover and articulate the value of a solution.
  • Identifies, assesses, prioritises, and manages risk.
  • Works at an intermediate level to analyse potential solutions and create recommendations based on the expected benefits, costs, and overall value of the solution for key stakeholders.
  • Works at an advanced level to understand business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as organisational structure.
  • Experience in assurance activity (including control testing) of key controls.
  • Review, assessment, and remediation of access management related controls.
  • Experience of cyber related risks and issues (leveraging NIST framework).
  • Practiced in policy, standards, and process reviews and adherence of first line of defence teams to these.
Desirable Qualifications
  • Ideally, you'll hold a relevant or equivalent ISACA qualification (CISM, CRISC, CISA, CISSP) or be willing to work towards this.


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