Hybrid role based in our City Centre offices.
What we offer
We have embraced a hybrid working model for most of our positions, allowing for a balanced approach of working from home and in the office.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive salaries and bonuses, robust Learning and Development support, excellent Defined Contribution pension, and comprehensive Wellbeing initiatives.
Reporting to the Senior Risk Reporting Manager, Europe, this role is key within the first line European Technology Risk and Security Team. The role will lead the co-ordination, production, and reporting of risk metrics on a monthly and quarterly basis to a senior audience, including technology and risk committees across Europe and LifeCo. A key requirement is ensuring a robust, efficient, and auditable end-to-end process is in place with a focus on continual improvement.
A key part of this role is understanding the reported data and the ability to report to various levels of the organisation. The role involves senior relationship and stakeholder management across multiple lines of business in Europe and LifeCo, requiring excellent attention to detail and an ability to engage with a wide range of stakeholders to ensure the delivery of accurate and relevant risk reporting.
What you will help us to achieve
1. Develop, implement, and continually improve an efficient and effective end-to-end Technology risk metric reporting process including data collation, aggregation, analysis, and reporting of metric data.
2. Ensure clear and agreed responsibilities including ownership of data feeds and metric output.
3. Co-ordinate technology risk metric reporting for timely inclusion in monthly and quarterly reporting packs.
4. Develop, maintain, and track a timetable for technology risk metric reporting for monthly and quarterly deliverables.
5. Identify risk metric remediation actions required, agree ownership, and ensure regular tracking and reporting on progress.
6. Liaise with OCIO senior management, lines of business, and LifeCo to ensure a clear roadmap for metric reporting changes and improvements.
7. Complete Risk Control Statement (RCS) quarterly reporting for LifeCo following the prescribed process.
8. Ensure changes to metric assumptions or new metric requirements are adequately assessed including data discovery.
9. Identify opportunities for metric automation and support the development work required.
10. Develop and maintain reports and dashboards to monitor risk-related metrics.
11. Present quarterly RCS results to senior level executives for approval for Global reporting.
12. Support metric owners and data providers on meeting data requirements.
13. Work with the 1LOD Technology Risk & Security Leads to ensure consistent metrics application across European Technology.
14. Support wider reporting deliverables including co-ordination of the annual assessment of European digital crown jewels for LifeCo.
More specific responsibilities will include
Communication and Influencing
• Uses the appropriate medium of communication.
• Is open, timely, and honest in all communication.
• Ensures that all handovers are clear and comprehensive.
• Creates an atmosphere where timely and high-quality information flows smoothly.
• Listens and encourages the open expression of ideas and opinions.
• Demonstrates the ability to relate to and understand the feelings, motivation, and behaviour of others.
• Runs structured, results-focused meetings when appropriate.
Planning and Organising
• Demonstrates a high level of personal organisation and manages multiple tasks effectively.
• Works systematically to ensure quality outputs and timelines are met.
• Ability to prioritise when faced with competing demands.
• Establishes a system for setting and reviewing action plans on a timely basis.
Problem-Solving and Decision Making
• Follows a problem-solving process to break complex problems into manageable pieces.
• Consults and collaborates with others to resolve issues.
• Ensures that objective decisions are made to progress issues, relying on data to support the decision.
• Recognises own level of decision-making authority and escalates when needed.
Innovation and Change
• Integrates business changes into their own role.
• Acts as a key influencer, encouraging colleagues to embrace new ways of doing business.
• Encourages others to propose new ideas for improvement.
What you will need to be successful in the role
1. Ideally educated to a degree level.
2. 5+ years’ experience in technology risk with supporting risk qualifications.
3. Strong experience in risk reporting in a Technology environment.
4. Experience in data analysis and development of reporting metrics.
5. Experience with data warehouse tooling.
6. Some experience and/or knowledge of PowerBi.
7. Experience in first line risk or second line of defense is desirable.
8. Ability to partner with and relationship manage senior business executives and technology leaders.
About us
Canada Life Group is the top-level European holding company for the Great-West Lifeco Group’s European insurance, reinsurance, and asset management companies.
European Technology supports the business strategy and collaboration of technology across all European divisions.
Canada Life Group Services is proud to be an Equal Opportunities employer, promoting equality and inclusion for all employees.
If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please contact lifecareers@irishlife.ie for support.
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