Senior Operational Risk Analyst at TransUnion

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:  

• Engaging with various business owners to facilitate the creation, maintenance and management of risk registers, including best-practice 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. 
• Providing 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 Mangement 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. 

Required Skills/Qualifications/Experience:  

Core soft skills required 

• Competency in planning and implementing risk reviews  
• Good communication skills and the ability 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 problem-solving 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 
• Working with Microsoft Office applications  
• Financial Services experience (desirable) 
• Understanding of Credit Reference Agency data (desirable) 
• Design and implementation of control dashboards and reporting (desirable) 

Qualifications 

• Educated to degree level or otherwise suitable experience