Risk Analyst

The role

The ideal candidate is a highly organized Risk Analyst with strong project management and documentation skills who can partner with stakeholders to identify, document, and improve processes, procedures, risks, and controls. This individual will help drive governance and risk initiatives by coordinating activities, facilitating discussions, creating clear documentation, and ensuring teams remain aligned on deliverables and timelines.

Responsibilities

• Supporting Governance, Risk, and Controls (GRC) programs in financial services or other regulated environments.
• Potentially partnering with business and technology teams to identify, document, and improve processes and procedures.
• Documenting process flows, procedures, risk assessments, and control inventories.
• Understanding operational risk management concepts, including risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and monitoring.
• Translating business requirements into clear, actionable processes and control documentation.
• Developing, documenting, and maintaining preventive and detective controls.
• Strong project management and coordination skills, including tracking deliverables, action items, dependencies, and milestones.
• Facilitating workshops, interviews, and working sessions with stakeholders to gather requirements and drive outcomes.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Partnering with business and technology teams to document end-to-end processes, procedures, risks, and controls.
• Cooking and tracking GRC-related projects, deliverables, and remediation activities.
• Facilitating meetings and working sessions to identify process gaps, control requirements, and improvement opportunities.
• Developing and maintaining process documentation, control narratives, risk assessments, and supporting artifacts.
• Aiding in defining new controls and enhancing existing controls to address identified risks.
• Tracking action plans, issues, and dependencies to support timely execution of risk and control initiatives.
• Preparing executive and management-level status reporting and presentations.
• Supporting audits, examinations, and internal reviews by gathering and organizing documentation.

Requirements

Experience supporting Governance, Risk, and Controls (GRC) programs in financial services or other regulated environments.

Ability to partner with business and technology teams to identify, document, and improve processes and procedures.

Experience documenting process flows, procedures, risk assessments, and control inventories.

Strong understanding of operational risk management concepts, including risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and monitoring.

Ability to translate business requirements into clear, actionable processes and control documentation.

Experience developing, documenting, and maintaining preventive and detective controls.

Strong project management and coordination skills, including tracking deliverables, action items, dependencies, and milestones.

Experience facilitating workshops, interviews, and working sessions with stakeholders to gather requirements and drive outcomes.

Strong analytical and organizational skills with attention to detail and accuracy.

Partner with business and technology teams to document end-to-end processes, procedures, risks, and controls.

Cooking and tracking GRC-related projects, deliverables, and remediation activities.

Facilitating meetings and working sessions to identify process gaps, control requirements, and improvement opportunities.

Developing and maintaining process documentation, control narratives, risk assessments, and supporting artifacts.

Aiding in defining new controls and enhancing existing controls to address identified risks.

Tracking action plans, issues, and dependencies to support timely execution of risk and control initiatives.

Preparing executive and management-level status reporting and presentations.

Supporting audits, examinations, and internal reviews by gathering and organizing documentation.