Senior Operational Risk Analyst - GCCA Remote

TransUnion; Remote; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading credit bureau is seeking a Sr Analyst for Risk Management based in South Africa. This remote role requires expertise in risk management within financial services and strong communication skills. Responsibilities include managing risk registers, conducting audits, and preparing reports for key stakeholders. Ideal candidates will have a degree, three years of relevant experience, and proficiency in Microsoft Office. Candidates from designated groups are encouraged to apply according to the company's Employment Equity plan.

Qualifications

• Three years relevant experience in a risk management function within the financial services sector.
• Competency in planning and implementing risk reviews.
• Experience with FCA regulated firms and UK financial services sector.

Responsibilities

• Engaging with business owners to manage functional risk registers.
• Conducting control operation sampling exercises.
• Preparing reports and MI dashboards for councils.
• Escalating risk and control issues as required.
• Maintaining risk reporting tools and identifying improvements.
• Driving control improvements to ensure compliance.

Skills

Risk management

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Report writing

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Quality Management System (ISO 9001)

Job description

What We’ll Bring:

The Risk function’s responsibility is to support TransUnion Europe in ensuring risks are identified, understood and managed appropriately in accordance with approved policies and risk appetite and to enable all colleagues to understand how risk management forms an integral part of everyone’s day‑to‑day role and responsibilities. As part of the Operational Risk and Resilience team, and reporting into the Operational Risk Manager, the role holder will support the maintenance and management of the operational assurance reporting framework, ensuring a high‑quality, consistent approach to Risk and Control Management is applied across TransUnion Europe.

What You’ll Bring:

• Three years relevant experience of operating within a risk management function (or similar) within the financial services sector.
• 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.
• Methodical, thorough and diligent, with strong attention to detail and strong documentation and report writing and presentation skills.
• Organisation and time management, specifically working to deadlines with multiple deliverables.
• Aptitude for learning, problem‑solving and quickly understanding new and complex information.
• Highly developed ability to analyse and present data effectively.
• Effective relationship building and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to use standard Microsoft products to a high standard, including Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Strong knowledge of risk management principles and techniques.
• Experience of operating within a risk management function (or similar) of an FCA regulated firm, with sound knowledge of the UK financial services sector.
• Knowledge of data management environments to be able to make critical observations and drive continual improvement.
• Good understanding of data protection regulation regimes, such as UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018.
• Experience of working with a Quality Management System certified to the ISO 9001 Quality Management Standard.
• Design and implementation of control dashboards and reporting.
• Educated to degree level or otherwise suitable experience.

Impact You’ll Make:

• Engaging with various business owners to facilitate the maintenance and management of functional 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.
• Supporting the preparation of high‑quality papers, reports, and MI dashboard outputs for the European Risk Management Committee (EURMC) 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 Management 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.
• For positions based in South Africa, preference will be given to suitably qualified candidates from designated groups in line with the company’s Employment Equity plan and targets.
• Should you have not heard from us within 3 weeks from applying, please regard your application as unsuccessful.
• Please note it is a requirement of the Global Capability Centre Africa that you reside in a home that is fibre ready; and has space for you to be able to work comfortably and confidentially on a day‑to‑day basis for the purpose of your proposed employment. You can be based anywhere in South Africa that has fibre, but will not be able to work in a location outside of South Africa.
• A Minimum of a 100 Meg Fibre line is required. If successful, you will need to upgrade your line or install fibre in order to work effectively.
• Please note that being a credit bureau, some positions require a clear credit record.

This is a remote position which may require occasional in‑person attendance at work‑related events at the discretion of management.

TransUnion Job Title: Sr Analyst, Risk Management

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