Job Title: Senior Risk Analyst - Supplier Risk Management Program - Level 5
Job Code: REF16390O
Skill Category: Risk
Location: London
Job Type: Permanent
Posting Start date: Thursday 4th April 2019
Closing Date: Thursday 2nd May 2019
Salary: Competitive plus Benefits

What’s it all about?

• The primary purpose of this position is to evaluate incoming supplier engagements to ensure suppliers are accurately and efficiently risk evaluated initially and periodically thereafter during the lifecycle. 
• This position will be responsible for assessing incoming supplier engagements for high risk exposure. This includes working with sourcing and/or business partners to ensure data is complete and accurate, inherent risks are correctly identified and residual risks are assessed correctly.
• This person will work closely with the Risk Stakeholder subject matter experts when issues arise to get them remediated or risk accepted and will partner with Business Owners and Sourcing leads wherever necessary to obtain clarification on open issues or incorrect input and record and document updates as evidences of change in engagement records.
• This role will need to ensure timely maintenance and updates for supplier profiles which includes performing ongoing risk assessment and analysis of supplier’s holistic relationship.
• This position reports to the Head of Supplier Risk Management (Europe).

What we expect of you, day to day.

• Manage incoming risk assessments, and conduct due diligence evaluations of suppliers for Visa Europe.  Process to include interviews with business requestors, ensuring that the proposed new service or product has been accurately reflected in the submission prior to completion of automated assessment.        
• Conduct ongoing periodic risk assessment of suppliers to ensure inherent and residual risk remain accurate
• Re assess existing suppliers, upon receipt of a proposal to purchase a new service including possible re –engagement with the Risk Stakeholders to ensure that the Inherent risks are accurate and also that the Supplier contract remains aligned to the risks associated with the new service.    
• Work closely with Sourcing and business partners to ensure a clear understanding of the services or product being purchased for appropriate risk evaluations.
• Co-ordinate with Business Owners to clarify responses on risk questions and document all the communications as evidence to changes in transactions.

What we expect of you, day to day.

• Employer will accept Bachelor’s in Cybersecurity, Business, Finance, or related field, or equivalent professional experience 
• Experience in job offered or experience in a senior risk analyst-related occupation.
• Have a strong understanding of Payment Systems and Supplier Risk to be able to validate for accuracy and completeness of the requests for purchase of goods and services from suppliers
• Have a broad understanding of multiple risk areas such as Anti-Bribery, Cyber security, business continuity, physical security, reputational and financial risks
• Good to have proficiency in Financial Systems (Ariba, iProcurement, Oracle, Hiperos) to be able to understand data flow in various systems and determine most efficient course of action to remedy issues

Education or experience must include: 

• Executing risk programs, Cybersecurity programs and/or audit program
• Experience with security and operational risk programs within the payment industry;
• Risk assessments and developing risk frameworks and process to determine the outcome applied to entire population and demonstrating an effective result;
• Experience with leading projects/team across multiple groups;
• Conducting business and business process assessments involving selection of standards and baseline values required to define a risk framework;
• Experience with supplier or vendor assessment framework and tools