Job Summary
The Vendor Risk Analyst reports directly to the Manager Information Security India who is part of the corporate information security team in the IT department. The IT department is part of the Global Corporate Services (GCS) group that provides centralized services to Milliman practices globally.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
- Support the implementation of a Standardised and consistent vendor risk management (VRM) program to effectively manage vendor risk in accordance with internal policy and Federal/State Regulatory requirements.
- Provide guidance to internal stakeholders to ensure requirements of VRM are fully understood.
- Onboard existing and new High/Medium Risk vendors into the Vendor Management System
- Initiate and manage vendor communications related to due diligence questionnaires and other document requests
- Collect and analyze data received from vendors
- Maintain an uptodate vendor inventory within the Vendor Risk Management system.
- Work with business owners internal stakeholders and vendors to ensure documentation is uptodate throughout the vendor lifecycle.
- Prepare risk assessment reports for vendors identified as High/Medium risk.
- Update existing reports on a periodic basis.
- Proactively monitor risk incidents remediation resolution including development and of corrective action plans and ensure followon reporting and monitoring
- Escalate risk issues to the appropriate individuals as needed.
- Communicate riskrelated issues and resolution management with specific vendors.
- Develop and maintain metrics reports/dashboard related to vendor groups.
- Work with internal teams to analyze and resolve potential issues.
- Evaluate vendor performance against service level agreements
- Provide documentation for external audit requests
- Assist with vendor offboarding as needed
- Perform any other job related assignments as requested with reasonable accommodation.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelors degree in IT/ Computer Science
- Minimum 5 years related work experience in vendor management vendor risk management and/or strategic sourcing and procurement required
- Expertise in reviewing SOC reports and ISO certification
- Preferred practical knowledge of risk management software/applications (e.g. OneTrust)
- Preferred One Trust Certified Professional/ Expert
- Working knowledge of service level agreements and/or contractual requirements
- Ability to interpret information security data and processes to identify potential compliance and/or issues
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to prepare documentation policies and build consensus across a broad group
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office productivity applications (Word Excel PowerPoint Visio)
- Knowledge of information security principles frameworks and best practices.
Required Experience:
IC