TransUnion is hiring a Risk Management Analyst - Remote GCCA

TransUnion is hiring a Senior Risk Management Analyst to join our European risk and regulatory teams. In this remote role based in South Africa, you will partner with stakeholders to drive the development of our risk management culture, ensuring risks are properly identified, understood, and managed across the business.

What You'll Do

• Work closely with business stakeholders to ensure material risks and issues are appropriately articulated, documented, and addressed.
• Perform reviews of risk themes, regulatory topics, processes, projects, or business activities to identify potential risks and issues.
• Identify and drive control improvement opportunities within key processes and procedures to ensure compliance with policies and standards.
• Prepare and maintain accurate and complete documentation that records the completion of risk-focused reviews.
• Support preparation of high-quality papers, reports, and MI dashboard outputs for risk governance committees and forums.
• Support interactions with regulators (such as the FCA and ICO in the UK), and assist in preparing high-quality documents to share with regulators.
• Support ongoing development and embedding of the global Risk Management Framework in the TransUnion Europe business.
• Work in collaboration with Internal Audit, Compliance, Legal and Data Governance teams to provide assurance over TransUnion’s material risk exposures.

What We're Looking For

• 5-10 years experience operating within a risk management function (or similar) within the financial services sector.
• Relevant Tertiary qualification in Risk Management.
• Aptitude for learning, problem-solving and quickly understanding new and complex information.
• Methodical, thorough and diligent, with strong attention to detail and strong documentation, report writing, and presentation skills.
• Experience of preparing papers for, and presenting at, governance committees.
• Effective organisational and time management skills to manage completion of multiple activities within set deadlines.
• Confident interpersonal and communications skills with internal and external stakeholders at all levels, both orally and in writing.
• Ability to use standard Microsoft products to a high standard, including Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Strong knowledge of risk management principles and techniques.

Nice to Have

• Experience operating within a risk management function (or similar) of an FCA regulated firm, with sound knowledge of the UK financial services sector.
• Awareness and understanding of FCA regulation including Consumer Duty and Operational Resilience and the European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).
• Knowledge of data management environments to be able to make critical observations and drive continual improvement.
• Good understanding of data protection regulation regimes, such as UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018.
• Experience of working with a Quality Management System certified to the ISO 9001 Quality Management Standard.

Technical Stack

• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft PowerPoint

Team & Environment

You will be part of TransUnion Europe’s wider risk and regulatory teams, reporting to the Head of Risk & Resilience.

Work Mode

This is a fully remote position based in South Africa.

For positions based in South Africa, preference will be given to suitably qualified candidates from designated groups in line with the company's Employment Equity plan and targets.