Senior Infrastructure Risk and Control Officer
Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION
Role: Senior Infrastructure Risk and Control Officer
Location: Abu Dhabi
Role Purpose:
- Responsible to evaluate overall risks/controls related to IT Technology and Communication Services (TCS) unit, maintain an active view, and report on the actual, mitigated and residual risk in the Infrastructure & Operations unit.
- All compliance closure activities are coordinated through this role, including the control and actual submissions for closure.
Key Accountabilities of the role:
- Manage all IT Technology and Communication Services TCS) unit risk and control management activities
- Responsible for managing, tracking and closure of various internal and external audit control points such as ITCA, GRC, GAAR etc
- Identify, assess and evaluate risk to enable the execution of the enterprise risk management strategy including proactive risk tracking within TCS
- Create and maintain a risk register to ensure that all identified risk factors are accounted for tracking and closure
- Collect information, evidence and review documentation to ensure that risk scenarios are identified and evaluated from various teams and risk owners
- Analyze risk scenarios to determine their impact on business and IT objectives
- Correlate identified risk scenarios to relevant business / IT processes to assist in identifying risk ownership and corrective or mitigation action plans
- Ensure all controls are assigned control owners to establish accountability.
- Validate risk appetite and tolerance with senior leadership and key stakeholders to ensure alignment
- Develop a risk awareness program and conduct training to ensure that stakeholders understand risk and contribute to the risk management process and to promote a risk-aware culture
- Coordinate with other organizational departments such as GRC, ITCA and ORM and align with overall organizational risk strategy
- Collect, Monitor, and communicate key risk indicators (KRIs) and management activities to assist relevant stakeholders in their decision-making process
- Management reporting, dashboards and presentations not limited to risk trackers
- Support various audits including preparedness and close any open items
Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge Required for this role:
- Commendable IT Infrastructure Services knowledge
- Strong banking domain expertise
- Experience in managing and driving IT risk and controls
- In- depth understanding on ITIL, PCI and NESA compliances
- Sound presentation and communication skills
Previous Experience:
- Minimum 10 years of experience in the areas of IT Infrastructure services, risk and control Management
- Experience working in a Banking environment is an added advantage
Job Details
Employment Types:
Full time
Industry:
Banking / Accounting / Financial Services
Function:
IT
Roles:
Software Engineer / Programmer