Ura | OP Pohjola is seeking an IT Risk and Compliance Specialist to join its Development and Technologies organization, a unit of 5000 IT professionals. In this role, you will strengthen IT risk management and compliance, ensuring services and environments are secure, high-quality, and compliant with regulations as part of an expert team.
What You'll Do
- Enable risk management and compliance considerations in daily operations within your own area of responsibility.
- Ensure continuous risk assessment, development of control activities, and maintenance of preparedness plans.
- Manage and monitor the implementation of requirements from OP Pohjola and regulatory authority supervision.
- Participate in stakeholder collaboration related to operational risk management and compliance, and in activities concerning regulatory supervision from the perspective of IT operations.
- Produce clear and high-quality documentation and presentation materials, describing complex entities understandably for different stakeholders.
What We're Looking For
- Experience in IT risk management and the implementation and assurance of requirements or operating practices.
- Understanding of industry regulations, standards, and authority processes, and ability to interpret and implement related requirements.
- Knowledge of IT development and production operating models.
- Process-oriented thinking.
- Ability to assess the impacts of risks on services, systems, and processes.
- Ability to produce clear and impactful written and visual material and present complex entities understandably.
- Self-directed initiative, careful work, and ability to manage multiple simultaneous, time-critical projects.
- Fluent communication in Finnish and English.
- A relevant higher education degree, e.g., in information systems, risk management, cybersecurity, or law.
Team & Environment
You will work as part of an expert team within the Development and Technologies organization of 5000 IT professionals, collaborating with a Risk & Compliance Lead and operational responsible persons.
Benefits & Compensation
- Work guided by the 70-20-10 principle: 70% of time on daily tasks, 20% on refining ways of working, 10% on freely learning new skills.
- Access to the OP Tech Academy for skill development.
- Comprehensive staff benefits including personnel fund and staff-specific bank, insurance, and loan services.
- Comprehensive occupational healthcare, extensive treatment cost insurance, and full-time accident insurance.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid role offering a flexible combination of remote and on-site work. Positions are available in Helsinki and Oulu.
OP Pohjola is a diverse and equality-respecting work community where everyone feels welcome and valued, promoting the sustainable financial success, security, and well-being of its owner-customers and operating environment.





