Risk Consultant - Legal (contract)

Title: Risk Consultant - Legal

Location: Charlotte, NC

Alternative Location: Minneapolis, MN, Dallas, TX or New York, NY

Duration: 6 months

Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits

Summary:

Act as a Business Execution advisor to leadership to drive performance and initiatives, and develop and implement information delivery or presentations to key stakeholders and senior management. Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges related to Business Execution that require solid analytical skills, extensive knowledge of Business Execution, and understanding of business, delivering longer term and large scale solutions. Provide vision, direction, and expertise to senior leadership for implementing innovative and significant business solutions that are large scale and cross organizational. Lead team meetings or steering committee to facilitate decision making and support implementation of recommendations and plans. Strategically engage with all levels of professionals and managers across multiple lines of businesses and serve as an experienced advisor to the leadership. Provide direction to a cross functional team using business expertise.

Responsibilities:

• Execute end to end review of RCSA artifacts, that is inclusive of but not limited to data analysis and reconciliation; in addition to, risk and control suite evaluations and gap identification or analysis in preparation for Review and Challenge Board, a key component of the RCSA program lifecycle.
• The Risk Consultant resource will see a set of standard artifacts that reflect a specific businesses risk assessment, there they will need to determine where they don’t believe there is an accurate depiction.
• The Risk Consultant will possess a strong business rationalized approach to risk and controls and will be required to collaborate and consult with team leaders in developing project plans, policies and procedures to support execution.
• Conduct assessments and reviews to present to a executives / board sessions as a secondary review step.
• Strategize, plan, and execute a variety of programs, services and initiatives in support of risk transformation
• Drive accuracy and accountability for assigned initiatives, limit risk exposure, and create efficiencies as appropriate to bring consistency to artifact preparation
• Perform assessments through fact finding and data requiring creative approaches to solving complex issues, and develop appropriate solutions or recommendations
• Make decisions in a fast paced, highly complex and multifaceted situations and compressed timeframes requiring solid understanding of business group's functional area or products
• Collaborate and consult with members of the Business Execution team and team leaders to drive strategic initiatives
• Influence, guide and lead less experienced Strategy and Execution staff within the group
• Synthesize and aggregate data into functional information to provide consolidated, actionable executive-level reporting to COO Leaders and partners, highlighting trends as part of the artifact preparation and review
• Develop action plans to establish effective processes while meeting performance metrics in alignment with program and policy expectations
• The ideal candidate utilizes creative and strategic problem solving with a flexible mindset that is adaptive to change.
• Strong understanding of Risk Assessment, Regulatory environments, operational risk and compliance

Qualifications:

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• Previous Legal background either as an Attorney or Paralegal.
• Foundational knowledge of Risk and Control Self-Assessment program and associated compliance requirements and alignment to risks
• Ability to produce data and/or observations from a variety of sources/artifacts, deliver succinct summaries (both verbal and written), and enact responses quickly
• Ability to present, defend and support observations to leaders and executives in both written and oral fashion
• Ability to assess controls to ensure adequate alignment to risk
• Experience conducting and summarizing compliance and/or operational risk assessments.
• Ability to read through relevant RCSA program guidance and artifacts and apply guidance to material assessments to ensure adherence by Business Groups
• Intellectual curiosity with proven ability to learn quickly through others as well as to conduct their own research and analysis
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to convey complex information in a clear, concise manner.
• Highly organized and proactive with demonstrated ability to assess, exercise independent judgment, apply prudent risk management principles, prioritize work to meet deadlines, and proactively escalate when necessary
• Ability to be flexible and adjust plans quickly to adapt to changes in program scheduling.
• Hands on style; proven ability to structure tasks or projects, execute and achieve targeted results
• Advanced Microsoft Office (Excel and PowerPoint) skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of risk applications i.e. Shared Risk Platform (SHRP) and Service Now (SNOW)
• Knowledge and understanding of internal controls and internal control policy
• Knowledge and understanding of the Risk Management Framework, enterprise risk management tools and programs
• Advanced Excel-Pivot Tables and VLookups
• PowerPoint, the team is tasked to build out PPs from what they have learned for Senior Executives