Lead Risk Management Specialist

2 weeks ago


Baltimore, Maryland, United States CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Full time

Responsibilities & Qualifications

OBJECTIVE:
The Senior Risk Management Analyst plays a crucial role in assisting, guiding, and educating team members on operational risk initiatives aimed at identifying and mitigating potential risks. This includes overseeing controls and safeguards to lessen the impact of both existing and potential risks that may affect the organization, ensuring adherence to relevant laws, regulations, standards, policies, and organizational frameworks, as well as monitoring and implementing remediation strategies for identified issues.

KEY FUNCTIONS:

  • Offer expert advisory support in conducting divisional risk evaluations. Oversee and assist team members in performing third-party risk evaluations and control self-assessments to confirm the sufficiency of existing controls designed to protect the organization. This includes tracking, monitoring, and managing identified issues while maintaining documentation for reproducibility, utilizing tools such as Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) systems.
  • Collaborate with business leaders across the organization to act as the subject matter expert in identifying concerns and issues, providing necessary support, and proactively spotting opportunities for risk management, control efficiency, and process enhancements to foster a robust enterprise risk culture. Monitor evolving risks and threats documented within the centralized risk register, including third-party risks, and work with business leaders to track mitigation strategies.
  • Assist in maintaining a centralized database for third-party relationships, detailing accountable business owners, inherent risks, and tiers for each third-party relationship. Ensure compliance with the Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) framework and standards, verifying that controls related to data protection, privacy, and access meet corporate standards and risk appetite. Collaborate with relevant subject matter experts to conduct due diligence on third-party controls to assess residual risk.
  • Engage with internal teams and key subject matter experts across all relevant risk domains to define and establish frameworks (e.g., Compliance, Risk Assessment, Risk Governance) and key data element definitions. Ensure frameworks are aligned with industry standards (e.g., NIST, HITRUST). Contribute to the creation of enterprise-wide training and awareness materials that educate associates and leadership on best practices, prevalent operational risk management challenges, risk management tools, and processes.
  • Support adherence to the established Common Compliance Framework (CCF). Aid in the development of enterprise reporting and dashboards for monitoring and analyzing process-level risks, controls, issues, risk management, and compliance activities.QUALIFICATIONS:

    Education: Bachelor's Degree OR, in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

    Experience: 5 years of experience in risk management, third-party risk management, audit, compliance, security governance, or legal services.

    Preferred Qualifications:
    • Possession or pursuit of a relevant risk or business certification (e.g., CPA, CIA, CISA, CISM).
    Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):
    • Experience in conducting independent assessments, including compliance and legal reviews, contract evaluations, control testing, and developing and reviewing assessment reports.
    • Proficient problem solver who can work independently and collaboratively, demonstrating strong interpersonal skills, including excellent oral and written communication abilities.
    • Possesses general project management skills relevant to performing assessment functions and responsibilities.
    • Exhibits considerable judgment, tact, initiative, accuracy, trustworthiness, and integrity.
    • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads. Must meet established deadlines and manage multiple customer service demands from internal and external stakeholders while ensuring service excellence.
    Salary Range: $73,152 - $145,288Salary Range Disclaimer: The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the work is being performed. This compensation range is specific and considers factors such as the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience, education/training, internal peer equity, and market and business considerations. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of the range, as compensation decisions depend on each case's facts and circumstances, including but not limited to experience, internal equity, and location. In addition to your compensation, CareFirst offers a comprehensive benefits package, various incentive programs/plans, and 401k contribution programs/plans (all benefits/incentives are subject to eligibility requirements). Department: Third Party Risk OfficeEqual Employment Opportunity: CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information. PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The associate is primarily seated while performing the duties of the position. Occasional walking or standing is required. The hands are regularly used to write, type, key, and handle or feel small controls and objects. The associate must frequently talk and hear. Weights up to 25 pounds are occasionally lifted. Sponsorship in US: Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without Sponsorship.


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