NatWest Group
Key Responsibilities
- Drive and facilitate IT risk assessments across the bank, focusing on TPRM, Records Management, and Risk Culture through the effective application of technology risk framework.
- Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders across Technology and Wealth business, ensuring management engagement with operational risk objectives.
- Apply effective risk management thinking in an IT environment, anticipating and assessing potential impact of risk across the bank.
- Supervise TPRM controls and external outsourcing risks and respective control environments.
- Support critical outsourcing initiatives in the Wealth Chief Digital Information Office (WCDIO) from a risk and SME perspective.
- Support management in identifying and assessing material risks, and determining position against risk appetite.
- Supervise 3rd party assurance findings including risk assessment and remediation plans.
- Support business service owners with assessment of 3rd party assurance reports (e.g., ISAE and SOC).
- Act as first point of contact from a WCDIO risk perspective for supply chain management.
- Manage an inventory of all critical suppliers to WCDIO to track risk and control status.
- Pro-actively support external audits in WCDIO from a first-line IT risk perspective and put potential findings in risk context.
- Own the external outsourcing risk reporting as part of the overall WCDIO risk reporting.
- Support the development and delivery of programmes of work to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
Skills and Expertise
- Experience of external outsourcing control environments.
- Practical experience in risk management methodologies.
- Good understanding of the application of operational risk in a technology environment, focusing on Third Party Risk Management and Records Management.
- Experience in a risk or control technical role in the financial services industry.
- Risk assessor accreditation under the technology risk framework.
- Qualification in risk, audit, or control (or working towards).
- Fundamental understanding and knowledge of TPRM risks and respective key controls.
- Solid experience in IT risk management practices and frameworks.
- Experience in IT auditing.
- Experience in risk reporting.
- Strong communication skills, able to communicate technical concepts to non-technical colleagues and stakeholders.