Associate, Technology Risk Management

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About this role

Business unit overview:

Technology Risk Management (TRM) is a second line operational risk function with BlackRock’s Risk and Quantitative Analysis organization. Our mission is to help ensure management has defined technology controls that protect our clients, our firm and support the achievement of firm-wide business goals. TRM partners with senior management, Information Security, Operational Risk and other control functions to achieve this mission. 

Job purpose:

We are looking for an experienced individual to join our established TRM function which has recently expanded to Atlanta to focus on Information Risk on a global basis. The ideal candidate for this position will be a dynamic, creative, results-driven leader with experience leading successful risk and control projects in financial services. The role requires solid presentation and communication skills due to the nature of working with BlackRock management globally. Additionally, the candidate should have both strong project management and…

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Results from a new, independently conducted survey were released today by Interos, the first and only multi-factor, multi-tier, third party risk management platform. The study found that more than 90% of companies expect the disruption of global supply chains caused by the pandemic will have long-lasting effects on their businesses.

Nearly every one of the 450-senior decision-makers in the United States who took the survey (98%) said their organization’s supply chain was disrupted. Their organizations grappled with shortages, demand reduction, price swings, and other upheaval in their supply chains due to the pandemic. More than 90% are concerned that future waves of infections will have similar consequences.

To reduce risk and protect against future shocks, businesses are planning to retool their supply chains, the survey finds. Among the steps they are considering is moving manufacturing to the United States. They also wholeheartedly agree (97%) that better visibility into their suppliers is imperative, but lack a streamlined and comprehensive source — less than half (44%) currently have a single solution for monitoring their entire supply chain, including…

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In 2017, Ariane Chapelle told an audience of sceptical financial professionals at a conference in Vienna that operational risk would in time become a greater source of concern for the financial industry than credit risk and market risk. Three years later, perhaps sooner than first imagined, she believes that moment has arrived.

“Back then, I said that credit risk and market risk are not the most threatening risks for the banks, because they understand them well, which is less the case for operational risk. Now, three years down the line, it is almost indisputable that operational risk has the lion’s share of attention,” she says.

The Belgian-born academic has become one of the foremost practitioners in the market, helping drive good op risk management to the top of the agenda for a roster of clients including many of the world’s largest banks. Her book Operational risk management – best practices in the financial services industry has been praised for furthering this message with clarity and good sense, and has been adjudged Risk.net’s Operational risk book of the year.

The progress that the industry has made is perhaps underlined by its…

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