Senior Third-Party Risk Leader — Hybrid (Denver)

Transamerica Corporation; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k Match

Pension Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Medical Insurance

Paid Time Off

Employee Discounts

Bonus for Eligible Employees

Job summary

Transamerica Corporation in Denver is seeking a Risk Management professional to oversee third party risk across the FBA, developing and enforcing policy, controls, and reporting.

The role collaborates with senior managers, builds scorecards, and stays current with industry best practices; hybrid in-office three days a week in Denver with a strong focus on risk assessment and remediation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Five years of experience in third party risk management, operational risk, or compliance.
• Thorough understanding in process management and control environments.
• Strong analytical skills to support assessment of risk and appropriate course of action.
• Written/oral communication skills to present information to FBA groups, SMEs, and third party service providers related to risks and courses of action.
• Organizational skills to prioritize risks and actions using a risk based approach.
• Proficiency using MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Ensure risk is being managed for assigned FBA portfolio throughout third party life cycle (planning, due diligence, contract, transition, on-going monitoring, and exit).
• Work closely with FBA senior managers and managers to ensure awareness and understanding of third party risk program requirements and associated risk within their portfolios.
• Develop partnerships with stakeholders across Transamerica, Aegon and affiliates.
• Share best practices to improve processes and gain efficiencies.
• Coordinate with FBA, third party provider and designated subject matter experts (SME) to develop and facilitate risk management strategy; execute third party control risk assessment to identify control weaknesses.
• Ensure remediation action plans are properly documented, and monitor action plans through resolution.
• Escalate to appropriate third party risk management as appropriate.
• Ensure required risk management activities and control weaknesses are remediated prior to contract execution with third party provider or appropriate risk acceptance is documented and approved by FBA senior management.
• Ensure appropriate systems are updated, remediation action plans to address control weaknesses are documents and approved by appropriate stakeholders.
• Act as a SME to educate the FBA on program requirements.
• Lead the development of performance management scorecards and monitor results, and other key risk management artifacts such as exit strategies.
• Keep up-to-date on industry best practices to support continuous process improvement.
• Provide training to FBA business owners of relationships.
• Provide portfolio and risk analysis to third party risk management.
• Monitor and report industry trends for emerging risks.
• Ensure systems/databases are updated with business intelligence required to manage, report, and mitigate risks.

Skills

Five years of experience

Third party risk management

Analytical skills

Written/oral communication

MS Office proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, finance or related field

Tools

Visio

MS Project

Tableau

MS Access

Job description

Transamerica Corporation in Denver is seeking a Risk Management professional to oversee third party risk across the FBA, developing and enforcing policy, controls, and reporting.

The role collaborates with senior managers, builds scorecards, and stays current with industry best practices; hybrid in-office three days a week in Denver with a strong focus on risk assessment and remediation.