Enterprise Risk & Privacy Analyst

Ascensus; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascensus is seeking a proactive Enterprise Risk Management professional to help identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate risk across the organization. The role supports incident response, privacy programs, and internal risk assessments, coordinating with leaders to ensure effective controls and timely action on improvements.

You will engage with senior management, manage risk projects, and ensure proper handling of confidential data throughout the data lifecycle, while aligning with Ascensus Core

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 to 4 years of financial service experience, preferably within risk management, audit, compliance, or transfer agency, broker-dealer or investment advisor functions.
• Strong and proven analytical, problem solving, and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with senior management and across all levels and functions of an organization.
• Knowledge of internal controls, processes, corporate governance, or enterprise risk management.
• Ability to respond to routine multi-tasking as well as complex, unplanned issues while adhering to aggressive deadlines for multiple initiatives.
• Proven ability to proactively and independently research issues, gather evidence, and successfully collaborate with various subject matter experts and teams.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and energetic team player.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to successfully interact with stakeholders at all levels, internal and external, to achieve desired results.
• Ability to proactively identify areas for process improvement, and effectively turn recommendations into actions.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks/deadlines with limited supervision.
• Detail-oriented, PC proficient, flexible, committed to quality.

Responsibilities

• Risk Exposure and Analysis: Manage incident response program including facilitation of standing or ad-hoc incident response meetings, maintaining up-to-date list of incidents, and providing reporting, trending, and analysis as necessary.
• Triage new, reported incidents as needed to challenge timeline, fact pattern, root cause, and any required preventative action or escalation.
• Identify any confirmed or potential thematic issues, and perform and/or plan deep dive assessments of the underlying process, risks, and controls.
• Assist in efforts relating to internal risk assessments at the entity, department, and project levels.
• Data Privacy: Coordinate updates to corporate privacy program.
• Evaluate escalated Privacy Incidents to confirm potential scope and severity.
• Coordinate communication and response to privacy issues that require notification to impacted parties and regulatory bodies.
• Review communications blocked by security tools to confirm risk and business use case, and coordinate any required updates to tool configurations.
• Project Management Initiatives: Assist with various Enterprise Risk or Ascensus projects including platform changes and process improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate updates for senior leaders and other key stakeholders on issues, including monthly cross functional risk and governance meetings.
• Manage Ascensus Access Reviews, exception handling processes, and any related initiatives to ensure effective protection, security, and proper handling of all confidential data held by Ascensus across the end-to-end data lifecycle.
• Assist with other tasks and projects as assigned.
• Responsible for protecting, securing, and proper handling of all confidential data held by Ascensus to ensure against unauthorized access, improper transmission, and/or unapproved disclosure of information that could result in harm to Ascensus or our clients.
• At Ascensus we are guided by our Core Values of People Matter, Quality First and Integrity Always®. They inspire us every day to prioritize an environment of respect for those we serve and one another and should be visible in your actions on a day-to-day.

Job description

Ascensus is seeking a proactive Enterprise Risk Management professional to help identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate risk across the organization. The role supports incident response, privacy programs, and internal risk assessments, coordinating with leaders to ensure effective controls and timely action on improvements.

You will engage with senior management, manage risk projects, and ensure proper handling of confidential data throughout the data lifecycle, while aligning with Ascensus Core