Head of Technology Risk Management - Business Unit Risk Manager, Director

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The Head of Technology Risk Management will lead and oversee the firms technology risk management function within the First Line of Defense reporting directly to the Technology Business Unit Risk and Control Officer (BURCO). This executive role involves developing implementing and maintaining an enterprise-wide information risk management strategy to protect the firms assets information and reputation. The First Line Business Unit Risk Manager is responsible for managing organizational risks through the design and implementation of appropriate mitigating controls.

The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of operational and information risk regulatory requirements and industry best practices with experience leading teams in a complex and fast-paced environment.

Key partners for this role include the Technology CIOs across Infrastructure Application Development Engineering and Architecture plus independent risk (second line of defense) internal audit and external regulators.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 10-15 years of technology and risk and control experience including managing teams preferably in a large financial institution or other highly regulated environment

• Bachelors degree (MBA/M.S. preferred) in technology engineering risk management computer science information systems or equivalent field

• Experience implementing executing building or enhancing risk and control frameworks

• Experience interacting with regulators on examinations and issues remediation

• Experience interacting with second line of defense (SLoD) and third line of defense (TLoD) teams on issues life cycle examinations and emerging trend identification

• Experience with managing resources (people tools and/or budget) effectively to execute required functions

• Relevant professional certifications a plus

• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

• Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

• AWS/Azure Certified Cloud Practitioner

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Risk management exposure including evaluating the adequacy and efficiency of internal controls performing risk assessments identifying issues developing remediation plans and overseeing remediation

• Understanding of the regulatory environment and regulations related to risk Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and Federal Reserve Board (FRB) expectations

• Experience with risk metrics definition and reporting/scorecard development utilizing key risk metrics tools preferred

• Experience relating to industrys best practices and frameworks such as: Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) COBIT National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) CSF and 800-53 Cybersecurity Horizontal Reviews and ITIL in complex environment

• Understanding of application development secure by design and system development lifecycle (SDLC) practices and framework and the key risks associated

• Understanding of risks and controls issue management reporting metrics and audits

• Experience with problem solving in a team environment by utilizing critical and creative thinking skills providing innovative solutions with and without technology

• Knowledge of financial institution businesses processes products and risk

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead a team of control officers to drive work to successful completion project manage and pragmatically solve problems

• Maintain strong engagement across multiple stakeholders collaborate with key senior business partners and stay abreast on risk control agendas

• Drive risk culture; influence self-identification and disclosure of control self-assurance gaps

• Work across functional organizations to identify synergies

• Participate on various governance committees to assess and respond to emerging risks and participate in ad hoc working groups to resolve new areas of risk

• Establish enhance and actively monitor key risk metrics

• Develop root cause and remediation plans to resolve negative trends or failures

• Specific BAU responsibilities will include working collaboratively with the businesses as a BURCO team representative to execute the following:

• Issue Identification:

  • Partner with business to proactively identify MSIs and appropriately document SLoD and TLoD identified issues using the appropriate templates and coordinating with impacted stakeholders to document accurate root causes and seek required approvals for issues to be submitted through issue intake and pass tollgate for issue documentation in Open Pages.

• MAP development:

  • Work with other BURM teams and BURCO validation teams to challenge any potential issues and participate in issue identification and development once they are recognized and agreed as issues

  • Review challenge and participate in issues MAP development to ensure MAPs can address the control deficiencies and symptoms pointed out in the issue including building out a sustainable and repeatable process

• Issue validation:

  • Perform first line validation of issues including MSIs SLoD TLoD and regulatory issues

  • Review challenge and participate in issue lifecycle validation with BURMs teams to ensure issue packages are completed properly prior to being presented at tollgates (review and challenge) meetings

• Reporting and QA support:

  • Support management to generate various metrics/ reports for senior management and board level committees

  • Maintain standard IM templates

  • Provide QA and reports on OpenPages issues

• Stakeholder engagement:

  • Engaged with Operations & Technology key stakeholders management BURMs SLoD and TLoD to ensure risks are understood across all LoDs and risk treatment is properly identified and remediated

  • Manage issues tollgate process: Review issue intake submissions for tollgates (review and challenge) provide feedback on issue packages (new issues MAPs closures packages risk acceptances) ensure requirements are met and that follow-ups are acted on and completed

• Additional responsibilities will include working collaboratively with the business units and their risk teams to execute the following:

  • Support definition reporting and monitoring of various metrics reports for senior management and board level committees

  • Maintain standard issues management (IM) templates

  • Provide quality assurance (QA) and reports on OpenPages issues

  • Engage with key stakeholders management BURMs SLoD and TLoD to ensure risks are understood across all lines of defense (LoD) and risk treatment is properly identified

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

• Excellent communication presentation and influencing skills and ability to manage stakeholders across multiple disciplines strong written skills

• Excellent analytical organizational and conceptual skills

• Serving as a trusted advisor to the ITA BURCO

• Exercises sound judgement and strive for continuous improvement

• Demonstrates optimism resilience flexibility and openness to others ideas

• Ability to identify obstacles and work in conjunction with others to identify options/solutions

• Ability to constructively work both independently and in collaborative environments involving all levels of management and employees

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

• Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

• AWS/Azure Certified Cloud Practitioner

The typical base pay range for this role is between $180K to $225K depending on job-related knowledge skills experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits retirement plans educational assistance and training programs income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities paid maternity and parental bonding leave and paid vacation sick days and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package please click the link below.

MUFG Benefits Summary