Manager, Risk Management

Title: Manager, Risk Management

Location: Bogota United States

Full time

Job Description:

What We'll Bring:

What We'll Bring:

At TransUnion, we have a welcoming and energetic environment that fosters collaboration and innovation, constantly exploring new technologies and tools to be agile. This environment gives our people the opportunity to hone current skills and develop new capabilities, while discovering their genius.
Come join our team! You'll work with great people, pioneering products, and cutting-edge technology.
JOB DESCRIPTION
We are looking for top talent with experience in identifying, assessing, and managing operational, financial, and non-financial risks. This individual will create a risk matrix that includes all treatments that may impact the business. This individual will also be responsible for maintaining the entire management system for TransUnion, preparing periodic reports on the status of risks and monitoring controls.

This position will report directly to the Regional Vice President of Legal, Risk, and Compliance and will work closely with all process leaders. The successful candidate must work across the organization and be comfortable engaging employees at all levels. This "hands-on" role also provides significant visibility to senior management, including interaction with regional regulators.

What You'll Bring:

• Partner with functional leadership and staff to develop strong, professional, and independent relationships to ensure a comprehensive understanding of the business and enable value-added recommendations that improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Implement and consolidate a risk assessment methodology. This includes:
  • Diagnosis for the Organization based on the identified risks and threats.
  • Measurement of inherent and residual risks. 
  • Review the effectiveness of the control.
  • Send an executive report and heat map to all key LATAM stakeholders and the global team if necessary.

• Stay abreast of industry issues and professional internal audit risk management practices to proactively shape and continuously improve internal audit practices and procedures.
• Exercising governance and oversight of the Company's Comprehensive Risk Management System, including financial and non-financial threats.
• Design and develop a plan for monitoring and periodically reviewing the risk management system, establishing effectiveness indicators to ensure that controls are operating in a timely, effective, and efficient manner.
• Design an effective monitoring process that facilitates the rapid detection and correction of deficiencies in the management of identified risks.
• Participate in the review and approval process for the company's various initiatives, services, and programs to ensure that new risks are correctly identified and included in the company's risk management system.
• Monitor triggers and periodically analyze program effectiveness indicators and risk materialization to present them to the different responsible areas and senior management with proposals for the corresponding improvement actions.
• Design a periodic training process for all TU associates, suppliers, and third parties involved in Risk Management, to generate a culture of control that encompasses key stakeholders and all Company associates.
• Design the dissemination and communication process for the different Risk Management Programs.
• Maintenance of risk matrices.
• Establish a schedule based on the risk assessment and the required prioritization process for monitoring all controls related to these risks. And work with process owners if controls need improvement.
• Participation in the different Company Committees when necessary.
• Lead the ERMC for the LATAM region.

Impact You'll Make:

WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE (requirements)

• Combined minimum of 8 years of experience managing the entire risk assessment model.
• Professional in Accounting, Economics and/or any administrative career, specializing in administrative areas.
• Teamwork and leadership skills working with interdisciplinary groups.
• Must possess practical knowledge and experience with financial and non-financial risks.
• Must possess excellent project management skills with the ability to organize and manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• You must have a thorough understanding of the ISACA, COSO, and COBIT frameworks, balanced with a demonstrated ability to understand key business drivers.
• Professional certifications are highly preferred in ISO31000 – ISO27001 – ISO27000 and COBIT 5.
• Must possess the highest professional and personal standards, unquestionable integrity and business ethics.
• Demonstrated ability and courage to uphold one's own convictions and adherence to firmly held principles and values, and to hold others to the same standards.
• Must possess excellent written and oral communication skills, and the ability to build effective partnerships across the organization at all levels.
• The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, energetic, and possess a natural curiosity to learn.
• Advanced English level.

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.