Risk Analyst

• Job Title: Risk Analyst
• Location: Tempe, Arizona | Reston, Virginia | Plano, Texas | Raleigh, North Carolina | Richardson, Texas
• Job Type: Permanent

Required Skill and Experience:

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.

• ⦁ 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.
• ⦁ Coordinate and track GRC-related projects, deliverables, and remediation activities.
• ⦁ Facilitate meetings and working sessions to identify process gaps, control requirements, and improvement opportunities.
• ⦁ Develop and maintain process documentation, control narratives, risk assessments, and supporting artifacts.
• ⦁ Assist in defining new controls and enhancing existing controls to address identified risks.
• ⦁ Track action plans, issues, and dependencies to support timely execution of risk and control initiatives.
• ⦁ Prepare executive and management-level status reporting and presentations.
• ⦁ Support audits, examinations, and internal reviews by gathering and organizing documentation.