Associate Director Enterprise Risk Management

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The Associate Director, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) - Third Party Risk Management, is responsible for leading a team that continually monitors, evaluates, and manages risk associated with third party vendors, partners, and customers.

In this role, you will manage an enterprise-wide risk program ensuring compliance with all applicable domestic and international regulations. You will be responsible for evaluating third parties across a range of risk domains. You will leverage technology solutions to support due diligence initiatives, continuous monitoring efforts and ensure efficient and effective mitigation of any identified risks.

This role will work to ensure that Verizon is well positioned to make informed data and risk based decisions when it comes to the selection of a vendor or strategic partner. In addition, this role will unlock efficiencies in the third-party risk management lifecycle by designing new end-to-end assessment workflows and operating models and drive increased visibility to threat vectors.

As a subject matter expert, you will partner with business leaders and take a key role in assessing third-party risk impacts on the company, identifying opportunities to enhance Verizon's overall controls environment, and managing risk as necessary. In this role, you will be partnering with business teams to develop and implement policies, procedures, and governance structures to mitigate risk across multiple organizations, products, and services. You will be supporting the business, assessing risks, developing reporting and analytics, driving process improvements, and providing transparent reporting to executive management.

• Leading a team of compliance professionals evaluating third party vendors, partners and customers.

• Coordinating due diligence processes across a wide range of third party relationships, systems and products.

• Leveraging technology solutions to streamline and automate complex regulatory tasks and business processes.

• Assisting with compliance reviews, risk assessments, and investigations to ensure all regulatory requirements are met.

• Leading a team in developing dashboard reporting and metrics to identify, track and mitigate third party risk.

• Supporting an executive level vendor third party risk governance program, providing senior leadership insights into areas of concern.

• Coordinating with internal and external risk experts and stakeholders to ensure that Verizon has a consistent and quantifiable risk management methodology.

• Performing quality assurance reviews of sanction screening and due diligence activities through dashboard development, tracking, and reporting.

• Driving complete, accurate, and timely vendor risk analysis through data analytics.

• Managing both technical and operational process enhancements of the third party due diligence and risk management lifecycle.

• Developing, implementing, and maintaining risk and control matrices, policies, and standard operating procedures for due diligence activities.

• Overseeing the identification of financial, regulatory, operational, security, and reputational risks associated with third parties and coordinating the mitigation of those identified risks.

• Coordinating with partners in business units and other corporate functions to provide insights into control issues and risk reduction strategies.

• Evaluating digital tools, platforms, and resources to drive process efficiencies throughout the compliance lifecycle.

You're a highly effective communicator and agile project manager. You are comfortable developing new processes and programs to meet regulatory objectives and reduce risk. You are able to drive a cross-functional team to key decisions in an evolving landscape. You understand that a rigorous control environment can help an organization meet its objectives in operational effectiveness and efficiency and reduce risk.

• Eight or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or Information Security.

• Eight or more years' of relevant work experience in Anti-Money Laundering / Anti-Fraud Compliance, Audit, Risk Management, or Operational Assurance.

• Experience in compliance, financial crimes (anti-money laundering / know your customer), sanctions screening, business controls, audit or finance.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong technical knowledge in reporting, dashboard development, and program governance.

• Effective organizational, project management, and interpersonal skills.

• A professional certification (CPA, CISA, CMA, CIA, CIPP, CISSP)

• Experience with LexisNexis, Dow Jones, FinScan, Comply Advantage, or other sanctions screening solutions.

• Experience with database management or analytics tools such as Knime, Python, or Looker.

• Knowledge and experience with accounting, control standards, and regulatory compliance requirements (i.e. SOX, GDPR, CCPA, COPPA, CPNI, etc.)

• Knowledge of control risk and control frameworks (i.e. NIST, COSO, ISO, etc.)

• Experience formulating, affecting, interpreting, and implementing policies and processes.

• Demonstrated organizational, leadership and reporting skills.

• Ability to design and develop a strong control environment to mitigate risk.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, stock incentive programs, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we've got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.