Senior Risk Analyst

OFF OF PAYROLL ADMINISTRATION; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

NYC Financial Information Services Agency-Office of Payroll Administration (FISA-OPA) seeks a Senior Risk Analyst to identify and document the agency's risk portfolio, translate technical risks into business terms, and maintain KPI dashboards. This role partners with the CISO and business leads to manage risks across cloud, automation, and vendor relationships.

The Senior Risk Analyst will support policy updates, risk frameworks, and data risk reporting while aligning with enterprise risk

Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science with relevant IT/risk experience.
• SME in risk management frameworks and processes.
• Experience documenting critical business functions and operational processes.
• Ability to identify and categorize risks across the organization.
• Develop risk management policies and procedures.
• Correlate information from disparate systems to evaluate risk.
• Experience with cloud transformation projects and AI risk considerations.
• Vendor risk and product risk management experience.
• Experience writing automation scripts, SQL queries, and dashboards.
• Experience with legal contract reviews.
• Technical background in information security, cloud, AI, and disaster recovery.
• Permanent civil service title of Computer Systems Manager or comparable title.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to identify, assess, and document risks and controls.
• Present findings to leadership on risk status and AI strategies.
• Help implement new risk policies and practices.
• Enhance tools to measure and report data risks.
• Support stress test plans and contingency framing with business stakeholders.

Skills

Risk management frameworks

Business process risk

Policy development

Data risk reporting

AI risk strategies

Vendor risk management

SQL & dashboards

Contract reviews

Cloud transformation

Information security

CISO liaison

Risk documentation

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Equivalent combination of education and experience

Job description

The NYC Financial Information Services Agency-Office of Payroll Administration (FISA-OPA) seeks to hire a Senior Risk Analyst. The Senior Risk Analyst will report directly to the Director of Risk Management. This individual will be responsible for identifying and documenting the risk portfolio of FISA-OPA. This includes translating technical risks to business processes, tracking and updating the KPI dashboard and when applicable, contributing to the updates of the internal Risk Framework. The individual will work closely with the various business team leads and the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) to understand how business and security risks impact underlying workflow processes within the agency. This individual will also be responsible for working on various technical and policy related functions such as understanding business automation workflows and defining policies around the risks with Al.

Primary Responsibilities

• Partner with key stakeholders in the business to identify, assess, aggregate and document risks and controls, including risks associated with new or modified products, services, distribution channels, regulations and third-party operations.
• Present findings to various levels of leadership concerning the status of system risk, policy enforcement, and Al strategies that the agency may undertake.
• Contribute to the implementation of new risk policies, practices, and solutions to ensure holistic understanding and management of risks according to industry’s best practice.
• Enhance strategies, tools, and methodologies to measure, monitor, and report data risks.
• Support the formulation of stress test plans for a line of business or the enterprise including the evaluation of results and framing of contingency plans in partnership with key business stakeholders.

Preferred Skills

• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Risk Management Frameworks and Processes.
• Strong experience documenting critical business functions and operational processes.
• Ability to identify and categorize risks across the organization from an operational and compliance standpoint.
• Ability to develop risk management policies and procedures for the organization.
• Ability to correlate information from disparate systems, business functions and operational teams to evaluate and prioritize operational and business risk based on priority.
• Strong experience working on large scale cloud transformation projects, advising and documenting business impacts as part of the migratory path of on-premises to cloud assets.
• Strong understanding of Al related strategies and the ability to communicate the risks when engaging with Al capabilities including agentic and LLM solutions in enterprise environments.
• Strong experience performing vendor risk management and product risk management.
• Strong experience writing automation scripts, SQL queries, and or building interactive dashboards.
• Experience with legal contract reviews.
• Technical background in Information Security, Cloud Services, Artificial Intelligence, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.
• Must currently be permanent in the civil service title of Computer Systems Manager (or comparable title).

Additional Information

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Hours/Shift: 35 Hours/Day Shift

Work Location: 5 Manhattan West, New York, NY

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Minimum Qualifications

• 1. A master's degree in computer science from an accredited college or university and three (3) years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory experience in Information Technology (IT) including applications development, systems development, data communications and networking, database administration, data processing, or user services. At least eighteen (18) months of this experience must have been in an administrative, managerial or executive capacity in the areas of applications development, systems development, data communications and networking, database administration, data processing or in the supervision of staff performing these duties; or
• 2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and four (4) years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory experience as described in "1" above; or
• 3. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and six (6) years of progressively more responsible, full-time, satisfactory experience as described in "1" above; or
• 4. A satisfactory combination of education and experience equivalent to "1", "2" or "3" above. However, all candidates must have at least a four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent and must possess at least three (3) years of experience as described in "1" above, including the eighteen (18) months of administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory experience as described in "1" above.

In the absence of a baccalaureate degree, undergraduate credits may be substituted for a maximum of two (2) years of the required experience in IT on the basis of 30 semester credits for six (6) months of the required experience. Graduate credits in computer science may be substituted for a maximum of one (1) year of the required experience in IT on the basis of 30 graduate semester credits in computer science for one (1) year of the required IT experience. However, undergraduate and/or graduate credits may not be substituted for the eighteen (18) months of experience in an administrative, managerial, executive or supervisory capacity as described in "1" above.

55a Program

This position is also open to qualified persons with a disability who are eligible for the 55-a Program. Please indicate at the top of your resume and cover letter that you would like to be considered for the position through the 55-a Program.

Public Service Loan Forgiveness

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/.

Residency Requirement

New York City Residency is not required for this position

Additional Information

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.