A leading financial services institution is looking for a Risk & Controls Analyst to join a global cloud (GCP) services certification programme for a leading global bank. Working directly with Engineers, the role covers workload specific requirements such as payments. (The role does not involve technical architecture or coding).
Role:
- Translating policy requirements to technical requirements
- Translating regulatory requirements to technical requirements
- Review residual risk for findings and issues through engineering processes
- Balance business priorities vs risk to firm (Blockers vs acceptable based on historic audit issues)
- Document MVP with key mandatory controls
- Follow up and track corrective action plans for issues that need to be resolved
- Running risk acceptance process
- Reviewing architectural RFI/RFPs
- Regulatory and IA engagement will follow later once team has been fully embedded
- Evaluating efficacy, validity and sustainability of controls (e.g. no manual)
Job requirements:
- Experience in Technology Risk & Controls in a large organisation in a heavily regulated industry
- Experience in GCP
- Ability to explain concepts consistently to stakeholders, including non-technical audiences and communicate requirements and position of Policy
- Experience developing and implementing strategy and process improvement initiatives
- Ability to influence change and common-sense approaches to modern risk complexity
- Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Risk certifications such as the CIA, CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CGEIT, CDPSE, etc.
- Certifications in Public Cloud such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, or AWS Certified Security Specialty
- Experience working with NIST, COBIT, ITIL, CSA, and/or ISO risk and ITSM frameworks
- Familiarity with DevOps and SRE practices
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and data services (compute, storage, networking and others)
Benefits Include (not limited to):
£450 Day Rate / Hybrid working / Immediate start available
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