Senior Analyst, Operations Risk & Controls

Role overview

Position responsibilities

• Lead operational risk assessments for large-scale transformations, technology implementations, and process redesigns.
• Assess inherent and residual risks through project lifecycles and challenge project stakeholders.
• Identify operational, regulatory, customer, financial, and reputational risks associated with proposed changes.
• Review future-state processes for risks, control gaps, and operational impacts before implementation.
• Review risk registers to ensure risks are documented, assessed, owned, and mitigated.
• Perform control impact assessments for new or changing processes, systems, and operating models; evaluate proposed controls and recommend improvements.
• Review business requirements, process designs, testing strategies, implementation plans, and operating models from a risk perspective.
• Participate in governance forums and provide risk opinions on implementation readiness.
• Partner with project managers, business leads, and technology teams to integrate risk management into delivery.
• Ensure adherence to the Change Delivery Risk Management Standard and related governance expectations.

Required qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in operational risk, audit, controls, consulting, project risk, or transformation governance.
• Experience conducting risk and controls assessments for large change initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of operational risk frameworks, control frameworks, and governance practices.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience reviewing business transformations, technology implementations, or process redesign initiatives.
• Familiarity with project delivery methodologies and change management practices.
• Archer GRC experience is a strong asset, including risk assessments, issue management, control inventories, corrective action plans, reportable events, and governance reporting.
• Stakeholder management and executive communication skills, constructive challenge, and ability to influence decisions.

Working arrangement

• Hybrid working arrangement.

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