About This Role
This Specialist position is on the Third-Party Risk Management team within Finance. The role involves independently managing risk, supporting the team with reporting, and developing training materials. It suits a candidate passionate about delivering extraordinary care and ensuring a clear understanding of business risks.
Responsibilities
- Work independently and adapt quickly to changing priorities, business needs, and risk-management activities
- Support the team by gathering, organizing, validating, and synthesizing information for recurring and ad hoc reporting
- Prepare clear, accurate, and timely reports, presentations, dashboards, and other materials for team and stakeholder use
- Develop, coordinate, and maintain training materials and resources to support consistent understanding and execution of risk-management processes
- Create, update, and maintain team Standards, Standard Operating Procedures, process documentation, and related guidance
- Perform assurance activities in support of a second-line risk-management function, including planning, evidence review, analysis, documentation, issue identification, and follow-up
- Apply sound judgment and attention to detail when evaluating information, identifying gaps, and escalating potential risks or control concerns
- Monitor and manage the team mailbox, ensuring incoming requests and inquiries are reviewed, categorized, assigned, and addressed in a timely manner
- Triage tickets and other requests based on urgency, risk, complexity, and the appropriate team or subject-matter expert
- Coordinate follow-up and track requests through resolution, maintaining accurate records and communicating status updates to relevant stakeholders
- Supports and collaborates with business partners on Nationwide's risk taking philosophies, processes and practices
- Builds strong data governance practices
- Aids in analysis and measurement of enterprise risks
- Assists in stress testing, scenario analysis and other techniques to understand potential impacts to the modeled results
- Learns to link risk management to business unit goals while enhancing risk diversification, protecting capital strength and supporting the achievement of risk-adjusted target returns
- Assists with initiatives associated with the identification, assessment, prioritization, and reporting of financial, operational, and strategic risks to Nationwide
- Conducts research and analysis of enterprise risk management (ERM) findings/issues and recommends appropriate solutions to business partners
- Assists with maintaining governance, risk and controls software applications
- Creates and maintains department training and communication initiatives
- Develops intranet site content, presentations, newsletters
